Nuhou, Volume II, Number 6, 1 August 1873 — "OUR INCREASING TRADE WITH AUSTRALIA [ARTICLE]

"OUR INCREASING TRADE WITH AUSTRALIA

f • ing our sugar and"our tra<le iiOiH ('alHonua, its natural marka. It is -oi c\ »j!u-tic)}j for the l T nitctl State,s of . i viiig np a errtain aniounl of reye'mie_, but • :)f losing this sugar trade entirely, ,? 'Th'i.s ;uarkalvle admissioii we find'in the leader :I»e Government Gczcf(e of last Wednes- : -y, aiul written ljy a newhan'd, wlio eonies [}\c reseue of tlie poor hanini searum ,:• >illinal editor wlio tiiids that tlie Nuhou "airie< : ;tot> heavy melal for his weak craft, Just eonsider, tliat we are urged to press l\ arl Harbor Cession Reeiproeity for fear Ameiiean interests will sufīer in these islands. These aro veiy proper eonsiderai i<>ns thr Amei'iean Envoys ? Amei'iean Comnianders., and American eitizens-in these seas; ljut by 110 means proper ? as an authoriiative statement of a journal, eßpeeially -ustained by the Ilawaiian Government i»aironcige, and used as the veliiele to eominunieate the authoritative vie\vs of the t ;overnment to the Hawaiian people. llei e you may see that our early views in .</gard lo tlie iniportanee of Australiaii ( ; iade are fully contirnied by our opponents. Ket us press for that trade.' We told Sena-iors-in 1800, that if they denied a fair and iionoi ahlo opj)ortunity to heeome Amerieanized. we \vould seek opportiuiities to beeome Aiistralianized, And they laughed at the eontiHgency, as iiot reasonable or possible;" but after four years, our opponents are -;iving. to Amencans tliat u nceiproeity, even, wttlioiit any present gain from Pearl Harbor, is the best fhing for American 'home interests." *And again they say, 11 11 not a question for the United States of„ uivi]«g up a certain amount of revenue, but of ]osing this sugar trade entirely. It is not rjio]iey, but Amei'ieah goods tliat return herr for sugar sent to tlie eoast. ,? And farUnniioi'e say — 4i No other eountry ean give cpiivalent we ean giveforEeeiproeity. n —meani'ng as d>ove said, without Pearl Harbor, but by the permaneiif establishuient of Amenean nilluenee. Then in the uame of eommoii sense, if this is so, and if you have any ea|)aeity to this state of things, whieh w(i helieve to be true, plain itnd palpahle to American statesman, why do you camplieate the Bituation and your t eharaeter as HaWaiiah stātesmen by thrustiim Ui the tontis of>Pearl Harhor ? It was noi needed. Say what you please about t\vo treaties being triedand all that. There was in tluii negotiation more or less of an imdertoiu ol annexation whieh indn>ated a want ()f diiectneßS, aild spoilt the eause. But lct Knators lniow and elearly understand what A\e are doing in theway of Australiān tradt, what we may do in the way of Canadian trade, or with some Oeeanii; ».qiv J£uro£iMn trade, and lhat we will llghi for salvation on the bavij< of naiional but will be happy to enter into a profitable allianee with onr great iteighbor, then we niay be lNtened to, and earrying native sentiment with us, we inay lay tlie AoumhUion, of a permanent alliaiiee mutually benefieent to the Continent and to this Arcliipelago,