The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1873-11-26

building, trading, fishing, thriving them
selves, and causing thrift in the country.
Already eight.tenths Of the skilled in.
dustry of the capital of these Islands be-
long to Americans, and of the twenty
six plantations producing over one hun
dred tons of sugar yearly, twenty arc now
in American hands. OF one hundred and
four commercial firms in the Islands
(which includes all Of notel ninety are
either wholly or partly American. The
material interests. the fortunes, the daily
bread, the accumulated saving Of this
pushing, working, intelligent crowd viii,
at the expiration of the treaty, be abso-
lutely dependent on its continuance. To
deprive them, then Of reciprocity, viii be
to turn their property from benefit TO n
burden, their profits to losses, their IN
dnStry to waste, themselves TO bankrupts.
And moro than this, The revenues of
the Government from internal taxation,
which by that time viii have increased,
and with that increase its expenditures
also, viii be imperilled. 1t is more than
probable that the active influence of the
resident Americans, and the danger of ex-
asperating them ON the one hand, with
the prospective arrangement of the island
revenue on the other, viii be sufficient to
induce the royal family and its adherents
to yield 10 the logic OF events and resign
gracefully q position which they cannot
maintain with comfort and honor
The natural finish will be the peaceful
incorporation of the Islands into the Am
erican Republic, in order to secure in per
petuity the profits and property created
by reciprocity.
TX.
Let us next consider the probable pro-
fit and loss to this Coast and the rest of
the United States in peeuniary sense,
resulting from this treaty.
So far as this Coast is concerned, it is
impossible to find any item of loss which
will accrue to its States or Territories
The Reciprocity Treaty admits into the
Sandwich Islands, free of duty, our lum-
Der, our manufactures of almost every
kind, our food orops-in fact, everything
that we can, prohtably to ourselves, ex-
port. Its effect is TO make us their bank
ers, their manufacturers, their carriers,
and, generally, their agents; and these,
not only for the present population and
its business, but for the prospective In
crease under the treaty For instance,
suppose \ sugar plantation should be start
ed at the Islands. Nearly two-thirds of
the reimbursement will be for machinery,
buildings, fences, agricultural implements
and supplies of breadstuffs and clothing.
These will come from here almost wholly.
The loss to the United States revenue is
only in 4 very small measure, perhaps one
fOrty-ffth of the whole, borne by us. SO
far as we on this Coast are concerned, we
can but mOdestly concur, happy tina; our
position here enables us to catch without
cost or effort the lions share of the bene-
fits of measure of national policy.
The profit and loss to the United States
Is an entirely different question, and no
doubt it has been, and will be, we'll count
ed by the Cabinet and the Senate I'M
mediately the treaty looks one-sided
on American products which last year
yielded to them some 1000, while our
Government admits duty free Hawaiian
raw staples on which last year it collected
about $4,000
During the seven years of the treaty,
in all probability, this difference of APP
parent loss will be largely increased. The
main item from which the revenue loss
viii arise is sugar. The Hawaiian Com
mercial AdrertiseT, in Its yearly resume,
in the spring of 1863, places the entire |
amount of grazing and tillable land in all /
the islands at 100000 acres, and the !
amount of land suitable for sugar cane |
culture at 100000 acres. This may be /
taken as an extreme statement, as the
writer's object evidently was to make the
showing as imposing as possible.
There are 1T present twenty-six sugar
plantations estimated to produce from 100
to 1000 tons sugar each annually. These
plantations own, in the aggregate, about
Il 900 acres of land, and they actually ex-
ported to all quarters, last year, eighteen
millions pounds of sugar At this ratio
of land to sugar, the entire 100000 acres
suitable for sugar forming would be cap
able of producing crop of 100 millions
pounds of sugar or $4,000 net tons. But
in wild countries, sugar plantations de-
yelop slowly. 1t viii be fair work if in
three years after the treaty any new plan
lINtOu yes sugar " hlalhCt- 4ftAlilGA ID |
it probable that more than half the lands
adapted for sugar culture viii during the
early years be even attempted. A fair
average export of sugar under the treaty
may be taken to be the mean of the actual
export of last year, and $4,000 tons the
export of the seventh year, or
| : 900 net tons yearly.
If this treaty will secure the objects
Secretary Seward has in view, the loss to
The revenue is a trifing matter. How
much would it cost to guard a coast such
Is ours, and q commerce such as that of
he Pacific with 4 foe entrenched at the
Islands, in comparison with the same ser
rice when no hostile fleet has a harbor
lepot, or station on the Pacific? For
.very sailor and marine afoat in these
waters the disbursement, all told, for ships,
zuns, fuel, arsenals, and the numerous re-
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