Year: 1874


mitted his daughter to aid in fixing the foulest
of all brands on the brow Of the mother who
gave her birth, and who does not appear to
have failed in maternal care and tenderness.
| The Hawaiian Reciprocity Treaty.
King Kalakaua is to arrive in Washington
this morning. He will be received with the
respect and honors due to royalty, and will
attract attention as being the first King in
Office who ever visited the United States,
though we have had several kings retired from
business. Though semi-official notice from
San Francisco has told us that Kalakaua does
not intend to disturb himself with business, and
means to leave the negotiations for recipro-
city treaty entirely in the hands of the ENJOYS
he has appointed for that purpose, Judge
Allen and Mr.. n A. p Carter, yet in tire con-
versation Of the dinner table he will no doubt
know how to advance somewhat the fortunes of
the proposed treaty. for he will be asked numer-
GUS questions, and, being On intelligent man.
will be able to give such answers as may en-
Tighten his visitors. He may, for instance.
surprise some of our Senators by telling them
that the small and apparently unimportant
kingdom over which he rules already buys
more from US than many far more important
countries. The King could tell them that while
Cuba took from us last year less than twenty
per cent in value of what we bought from her
the Sandwich Islands bought from us more
than we took Of their products. He could
show that while we pay heavy annual sub
ciI Iv fo ntoi xUit
that country took of our products, excluding
gold and silver, last year but little more than
the Sandwich Islands.


Kings are not usually good at figures but if
His Majesty has o turn for statistics he will
be able to tell Senators that his subjects ore
larger consumers Of American products than
some other and apparently more important
sugar producing countries. For instance, he
might say the Sandwich Islands took from the
United States in 1871 American products to
the value Of 81, ,071, $40. and in 1873 to the
value of $836,522, the decrease in the
latter year arising in part from the
diversion Of their trade to Australia,
which begins to buy Hawaiian sugars. But
the British and Dutch East Indies and the
whole Spanish possessions in the East Indies,
from whom we bought last year over thirty
millions, took from us Of our products only
to the amount of $450,0OO; about half as
much as the Hawaiian Islands Cuba, from
which we bought last year over seventy-seven
millions, took from us in return less than
fifteen millions. China took of our products,
with the help of costly steamer subsidies,
only trife over million, exclusive of specie.
Such figures, stated by king, would give
some of our people better idea of the real
and relative Importance of the Hawaiian group
to us, and show that here is a field which our
farmers and manufacturers may well desire to
cultivate. Moreover, if Senator West should
protest against making Hawaiian sugars free
on account of their competition with the
Louisiana product, His Majesty would be able
to show him that the entire sugar crop Of the
Sandwich Islands amounts to only about one
and half per cent of the amount of sugar
| imported into the United States last year from
| foreign countries, and is therefore such trihe
that the Louisiana planters need not be afraid Of
it. Indeed, King Kalakaua has SO good case
that it hardly needs more than fair state
ment to succeed and the fate of his treaty
| troubles us less than our desire to know what
will be His Majestys impressions Of the first
severe snowfall of the first sight of the dome
of the Capitol, of the great transcontinental
journey, or his emotions on taking by the
hand the great soldier-President, whose
fortunes and campaigns during the war the
King, then plain Colonel Kalakaua, watched
with SO lively and intelligent on interest.


Improvement OF Street Railroad
/ Travel.


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