Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-07-27
CANAL NOT TO
Connect HAWAII
With EAST COAST.
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who asked: as Lima in Peru. or is
Peru in Lima?n and being told that
via Rio on his ticket referred to
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. remarked,
Brazil is the country that has not
got any seacoast"
His subject. the speaker went on to
say. treated of a dozen countries, ey-
cry two of which were as different
as black and white. Argentina was
going to be one of the greatest coun-
tries in the world. Within $50 miles
of Buenos Ayres. which had more au-
tomobiles than New York and Boston,
is vast prairie country with soil %
feet deep, the land being much like
the southwest or the northwest of the
United States. There are no Indians,
hence no racial problem to solve. I'm
migrants of an Industrial class are
pouring in from Europe at the rate
of quarter of million q year.
Brazil is bigger than the United
States excepting Alaska. 1t contains
hundreds of thousands of negroes and
would sometime probably be inhabited
by orientals as the Japanese are COM
ing in quietly by thousands every
year. There are therefore enormous
possibilities of labor for development.
Chile is strip of western coast
$500 miles long and but Is miles wide.
Its products are diversified 1t raises
more wine than California. The peo-.
pie are warlike and would long ago
have taken Peru were it not for Unit
ed States battleships Hawaii could
sell Chilli raw sugar in return for nj.
trates. She could not sell pineappIes
there, but could sell them to Peru.
which imports fruit from the United
States and elsewhere.
A majority of the peoDle of Peru.
Bolivia and Ecuador did not sneak
Spanish. They were primitive and
difficult to govern. Their rulers were
OF mixed Spanish and Indian breed
trying to run their governments on the
plan of the United States constitution.
Nature had placed an obstruction to
intercourse with the rest of the world
in the great wall of the Andes 5000
feet above sea level between which
and the ocean there was desert coun-
try for the most part There was moth
ing to develop except mines.
"a college professor is not noted for
his business acumen, but rather for
his wild and woody aspect" Mr.. Bing-
ham observed by way of prelude to
his discouraging opinion of results
from the Panama canal on the west
ern side of South America. :.. -.
"The most important part of South
America is the eastern part which is
about as near to Europe as to the
United States. What makes It ft1por-
tant to Hawaii is that it brings Asia
nearer. Sooner or later Asia is going
to be poured into the eastern part of
South America That will be the OPP
portunity for Hawaii to extend its Pa
cific trade. r. r.
II want to say to you," Professor
Bingham concluded, these are the
happiest days of my life and wish
you all cordial aloha" .-s
; Delivered in plescing conversational
tones, the talk was warmly applaud
ed. With President Angus and the
guest of honor at the central table
were Governor Pinkham, Judge s. B.
Dole. Professor Brigham, Judge w. L.
Whitney, Professor C. NJ. Cooke. A. F.
Judd, DR.. ]. r. Judd. John Waterhouse,
A. Lewis, Jr.. w. W. Chamberlain. E.
A. Mott-Smith and H. M. Won Holt.