The Hawaiian gazette., 1869-05-26
Yours, DC,
A SYNPATHIZER WITH TIE
MISSIONARY CAUSE.
THE following is quoted from the sacra
Yours, &c.

The following is quoted from the sacra
mento Be.
] BEET SUeAR-The sugar beet seed has
come The French bark Bayounaise, i54
days from Bordeaux, arrived having on
board the sugar beet seed, purchased by
] Wadsworth in France and Germany for the
Sacramento Valley Beet Sugar Company.
1 The ground has been prepared some time
/ awaiting the arrival of this seed, aud it will
/ be planted at once Some $50 acres OF
ground will be planted by the company in
/ the vicinity of Brighton, and lots of i've,
/ ten or fifteen acres will be planted here and
4 there by individuals on contract with the
company at so much per ton for the beets
/ delivered. Everything connected with this
enterprise has been dormant for some weeks
! because of the non-arrival of this seed, but
considering the land in which it is to be
planted-the alluvisl bottoms along the
American-there is no time lost, and the
matter will have fair experiment this Fall.
/ If this sugarie succeeds this year there will
be dozen erected in the State next year,
and with their success sugaries will multiply
1 indefinitely until We manufacture enough
! for home consumption, at least-and ii may
be that We can supply some other States
with this article.
Again the Bee has the following:
IL NlA4 DG IGNOtlCNNCu ltul 1GOI-G
Gordon, of San Francisco, made 4 great
! splurge through the newspapers about beet
| root sugar-that he distributed seed, and ask
ed that samples of beets should be sent him
and that he would report but ever since the
treaty above referred TO (our Reciprocity
Treaiy)was made We have heard nothing from
Mr.. Gordon about beet sugar, II the beets
should prove productive of saccharine
he would have seed here to be planted
. ~
mers for raising the beets; but he has
been entirely silent on the subject,
and has used his influence with the San
Francisco Chamber of Commerce, and other
wise, TO have the Senate approve that treaty
which takes the duty off raw sugar coming
from the Islands Before the Senate meets
again We shall know 10 certainty whether
sugar from beets can be proitably made
here; and, the entire press of this State, and
all the public and patriotic men upon the
coast, will &c invited 10 unite in Z call upon
the Senate TO strike out that free sugar clause
at least; or, if it will not, then to reject the
treaty. We must protect home industry.
We must not give to foreign capital-to
these Sandwich Island plantations, owned
by EnglishDen and worked by poems, this
advantage over our own capital and indus
try To do so would be lasting disgrace
public Outrage.
Well, it appears that the Protectionists are
still alive. As to the announcement that the
plantations are owned by Englishmen, and
worked by poems, there are only 500 tons, out
of the entire crop this year, from estates own
ed by Englishmeu, though there is no particu-
lar reason whyan Englishman should not own
a plantation here, as well as q Scotchman
(Mr. Gordon,) own the largest interest in a
sugar-refnery in San Francisco. OF the
poems who work the plantations, we have no
knowledge; but those who are attached to
the sugar interest here can not be astonished
at Misrepresentation abroad, when like mis-
representations are tolerated in their own
midst
The OAKLAND Nelrs, in commenting on the
above, has the following:
The object of the encouragement (of
the Treaty., on the part of the refining
combination is readily explained. 1t is
not long since contracts were made with
the principal planters of Hawaii, by
which they are bound to furnish sugars
to the San Francisco refineries at a stat
ed price, which admits of a handsome
profit on the refined article. These con-
tracts are still in force, and must so remain
for long time to come. The reduction, or
rather abrogation OF the tariff, as proposed
by the treaty, will largely enhance the pro-
fits of the refineries and enable them to Sc
cure perfect monopoly of the market on
this coast. Having secured the supply for
years in advance, no danger could be
apprehended of any opposition, as Manila
and China sugars would still be subject to
duty, and from these points alone could the
raw article be shipped with any profit. The
experiment of establishing local refinery
from which the markets of China, British
America and Australia could be supplied,
was made by the Hawaiians, but proved
failure, and they are now dependent upon
San Francisco and the sugar refineries for
their market. 1t is manifestly to the interest
of Mr.. Gordon and his fellows TO secure the
passage of the treaty, and the planters, as
a self-protectiDg measure, are assisting by
every means within their power. Large
sums of money have been contributed 10
secure the influence of prominent politicians
at Washington, in favor of the project.
Judge Harris, the high of Hawa-
iian politics, spent whole season in urging
the passage of the treaty, and now, another
agent of King Kamehameha is al the capital,
sanguine that his efforts to secure favorable
vote in the Senate, after recess, will be crown
ed with success. Unless some decided effort
is made by parties on this side of the conti-
nent, interested in the new movement of
beet-root sugar, against the passage of the
treaty, We have little doubt that it will be
ratified; and then-good-bye, Beet-rooti
Now, the refinery contracts were only for
the then current year, and having expired,
are not now in foree-and so far from being so
for long time TO come, have not been so for
a long time past. No one here ever heard of
the experiment of local refinery from which
to supply the markets of China, British
America and Australia: There was a small
establishment, for the purpose of extracting
the sugar from the second molasses, after
the planter had taken out all he proitably
could. We ought to be glad that our Oak
land friend, has but little doubt, that the
Treaty viii be ratified, unless some decided
effort is made, as above. Regarding the
large sums of money contributed to secure
the influence of prominent politicians, Mr..
Harris has no recollection of seeing any
money but his own.
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