The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-08-11
JAPAN MAKES GAINS
AND HAWAII LOSES
BY SHIPPING LAW
Editor OF Advertiser Tells New
York Herald Situation In Pa
Cific Is DepIorabIe
AMERICANS GET WORST
OF MARITIME SITUATION
Encounter DiScriminative Laws
and Are Blocked When Seeking
To Travel From Territory

"Thc shipping situation on the Pa.
ciic is steadily growing from bad to
worse. with the japanese ship owners
being handed over, with the compIi
ments # the United States. all that
Americans have been able to secure in
tn" Orient from the days of Commo.
dore Perry until the enactment Of the
La Toilette Shipping bill"
This is the opinion of Rodrrick O.
Mpth"son, editor Of The Advertiser
giv"n to the New York Herald ON July
%, while Mr.. Matheson WINS visiting in
New York City. Continuing. the Hon.
Olulan said:
With the exception Of the ship
ping in the Hawaiian sugar trade,
which itself would have been seriously
crippled, IL not wiped out, bv the Will
son administration had il not been for
the war. there are only three American
shirs left in the transpacifc trade.
Coastwise Laws Prevail
'Thr ships in the Hawaiian trade
are protected by the provision of the
cOaStwise shipping bill which restricts
Trading between American ports to
ships Of American registry. Otherwise
even the Hawaiian trade, which sup
ports the MatsOn Navigation Company
and the American Hawaiian Steamship
Company, would before this have passed
into the hands of the japanese and
Chinese
..Wb;Io tbo ooos.,r;s, lam hL
locr in forco for n,ro
drcd veors ond for rLiaL "u"
dine 70 the nrcson+ odn;nistrat;mn h b
rreservnd a marian of tbo Arn,ia,
merchant marina nm .bo poo;Go 49,,
tinct;nn - - ,,,nr,+;,,
soriors d;so5vor+oro 90 uo,.o;; :, ~
imnortont rasnnct Il !, rastrio+;nar .ho
nosseprer trofFo bot,,.ao, 49, D:e
coos+ ard tbo Uowo;io IaioJa a. ~,
which nrobihits tho tronsnor+ot in. nf
frc;obts olsn nrobihitinol thn W.
Of Dosserrars hotu.oon uonol,,I,, 80
thc American norto of Son -,
Seattle and Son padro
oo,Io,, w.,
-0'' ih""h
AS the liners which the La Toilette
Gct has driven out Of the Pacific trade
were among tn" first class passenger
sAlps or the flag including the Korea,
the China and the Siberia of the former
racine Mail ana the ships which the
c"hs'"lse Ia" mas enabled TO live are
essentially frelghtrrs with either lin
ttd passenger accommodation or none
OF all the loss OF the services of the
nc, nc mhlhrS IS serious 10 hawan.
mere are Suhclrnt passenger liners
uhdcr IN" BrltlHh flag making Hon
"iulu port or raII 10 carry passengers
~ vancouver; Ih're are sufhclent
liners uhdeF IN" japanese ana Chinese
hhRS 10 carry passengers to either the
Nfleht' M"Nlc" or south America from
n"hoioIu' Americans IN the Hawaiian
Islands may travel without difficulty to
Ia" VI '>'M "eaIahu P"t's' but
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fr.ioIt,r, ,.,i,,,,r;I,. a.. ,',,..-.' 80
commod,tiIr. L,in,, w., h,st nnGar tLo
circumstances rho Amnriron'Howai
m tho ,,pIv ,,L.r Enn IN a., ro,r,'i,,
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II all
Oi WIN FuDllc
J., 49, ne .'""'' "i''lu''S 'nr%e l'herS
lta N">''"'Iun S,IV.Ft VI" honolul".
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