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THE FARRELL INTERVIEW.It Is well not to lay too much stress upon the Examiner Interview with J D. Farrell, vice-president of the Great Northern steamship line, until that gentleman himself is heard from. At -present ail we have is a letter to the yellowest Journal of the Pacific Coast from E. H. Clough, a member of its staff Who picks up a living by writing sensational news. How much of the interview is Mr. Farrell’s and how much Is Mr. Clough'a, cannot now be known. But some inference may be drawn from the fact that the language and statements sound more like those of a re- j porter In search of thrills than those of a sober business man In search of trade.Xbe Advertiser does not know that the Planters’ Association has asked Mr. Hill to build a refinery on the Bound for the ha,ndllag of its sugar cron, but if it has, he is not the man to meet the proposal with the thoughtless rejection which Mr, Clough attributes to Mr, Farrell. It certainly -would be worth the cost to the Great Northern to get the handling of the entire Hawaiian crop, and Mr. Hiil is not likely tp be appalled by a competition, ■which Claus Spreckels easily met and which has no terrors to the Arbuckles of Brooklyn. The Sugar Trust is far from being invincible. Beaten by Sppeekels, beaten by annexation, harried by Eastern coffee and sugar men, what iB there about it to dismay the master of the Great Northern, the financial magnate of the Northwest -whose combinations embrace gigantic blocks of Eastern capital? Besides, owing to recent decisions, it is not healthy for any trust to open a campaign in restraint of trade.To Mr. Clough rather than to M~. Farrell we must attribute the comment that Hawaii is a burden to the American taxpayer. A man of Mr. Farrell’s business and responsibility would know that Hawaii not only pays its own expenses but eases the burden of the American taxpayer, through its custom house, postofflce and internal revenue receipts, to an amount between one and two million dollars annually.To say nothing of its strategic value, Hawaii, as a purely commercial proposition is one in which the nation may take pride. But that is no news to Mr. Hill or his steamship expert, Mr. Far-relbAnother sign of Clough is in the garbled interview with Mr, Dillingham.It would- have been impossible for Mr. Farrell, we think, to have reported a private conversation at all to strangers, least of all to have vested it with misrepresentations. That Is not the way with shrewd and honorable business men.b
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Hawaiian Gazette
Honolulu, Hawaii, US
Tue, May 26, 1903
Page 4
Full Page
Clipped by
San F.
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