Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-09-11

4 called Independence. They are wise
! enough. to know when they have q
good thing and how 10 appreciate 1t
i However, II goes without saying
that along with the rest Of their fel
low Americans Democrats and Re
publicans they are at Q loss 20 un
derstand the consistency OF the VII
son administration in. removing Anne
ricans from ofiice In the Philippines
and filing the vacancies with Fflipi
nos. while IN the Hawaiian Islands the
policy Is toslill vacancies BY going tc
far-off South, Carolina for q Honolulu
postmaster, to Mississippi for q col
lector of the port and to Tennessee
for q United States district attorney
The natives IN. the Philippines must
rule and have the Offices. but the ma
tives and other Americans in the Ha-
waiian Islands must be ignored and
officials imported from the states.
Debt Many Times Repaid.
Upon the annexation, the United
States government assumed and has
since paid the then existing indebted.
ness incurred by the Republic Of Ha.
wall which succeeded the monarchy,
the amount being $3,241 400.
During the past fourteen years the
people OF the islands have paid into
the treasury Of the United States the
following:
Customs receipts :. SIS, 61O, 688
Internal Revenue taxes 1.70s,7SS
Total SCI 32O. s26
The total Of postal receipts would
add several millions Of additional dol
lars, and thus prove that Uncle Sam
made no mistake In unfurling and
keeping his flag over the islands. The
amount Of internal revenue tax col.
lected the first year under the juris.
diction Of the United States was ST.
$50. while last year f1g14) Il was
$246, 754, or an increase Of $239,304.
During this same period. the Anne
rican business men have disposed Of
f240, S57. 122 Of goods made in our
mills, Workshops etc, TO the people
Of the islands, out OF total importa-
tion of $301 ,36s 1876. The year prior
to annexation. the total Imports and
exports footed up to t2S.7O4, 900, and
In 1914 they hsd risen to $77,144.3SS.
Last year the amount purchased In
the United States was $29, 267 ,699, and
$6,282,558 from our foreign competi.
tors. OF the last-uamed amount, ST.
100000 COVERS PURCHASES made in ia.
pan, and the value Of goods Japan
bought last geer 1ingthB Hawaiian Is.
lands was only t45, 269, Aeaving 4 trade
balance against the islands IN favor,
Of Japan Of 81. l50. 7S8 isJapanls sales
In the islands In 1900 were $647. 1876,
while 1914 shows an increase Of 81, J.
803s 800 over her imports fifteen years
ago. Practically all Of Japan's exports
TO the islands are made up OF cotton
goods9 Though The United States pro-
duces raw cottoh and lis supposed to
have tariff IN the interest OF its
cotton mEhdfactuiers. here Is Japan
an importer Of raw cotton. with her.
cheap labor-ten cents TO twenty-five.
cents per day working ten 70 eleven
hours per day entering an American
homo market and underselling our cot.
ton manufacturers Just as she has
succeeded under the present low tariff
In disposing of goods in the Philip
pine Islands amounting In 1914 to 3d..
633,642. made up almost entirely of
cotton goods With northern and
southern cotton mills In America clos
ed down or running on reduced time,
and thousanls Of their employees idle
and Without NoTIi during the past two
years under the new tariff law, we
see Japan entering two of our insular
possessions and selling goods In TWEEN
tysfouf months to the value OF more.
than so, SOC. 900; sspd practically all
cotton goods: and covering the same
period, cotton goods sold In the Unit;
ed States BY our foreign competitors
reached sos, 211. 40.
Why Look EIsswksfe7 81
There are members OF Congress
who voted for the present low duties
on imported cotton goods along with.
many writer's In newspapers and mag.
azines, now ADVISING and urging our
cotton manufacts lfers TO seek q mar.
ket IN South America and elsewhere.
Well. If we could not meet foreign com
petition at home on our own shores
IN the sale Of cotton goods to the va.
lue OF $105, .210 In 1913 and 1914,
how can we have any better success
thousands of miles away with extra
brokerage. transportation and other
charges, not to mention longer time
IN payment of the goods? why not
pass tariff laws under which the
amount, $4,000 900, we now send an
nually abroad for foreign made cot.
ton goods can be spent in America
starting up some of our closed mills
and giving employment to thousands
OF idle men and women? 4g ]
y While on this subject OF the tariff
and its Importance, to the cotton In
dustry and writing about the Hawaii
an Islands. which have, proven so TAR
the most valuable asset the United
States have secured in about half a
century, IL viii not be amiss to state
that a tariff duty on sugar is abso.
lutely essential to the prosperity and
Industrial life of the people of these
islands. The following embraces the
list Of leading agricultural products
sugar, pineapples, coffee and rice
sugar and pineapples constituting
91.79 per cent of the crop output,
=