The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1879-10-11
THE PACIFIC
G0mmfreialAobert .
SATURDAY. OCTOBER IL.
From the S. F. Merchant. Sept. 2sth.l
More False Figuring.

Supports a monopoly Now, all these attacks
on the treaty, whether they appear in the Grocer
or the American Grocer of New York, or the
Grocer and Country Merchant, or the BuLetin
or the CdH of San francisco, or the OAKLAND
Tribune. all come from one source-the New
York sugar re6ners. They might all be written
by one pen, for they all display the same extra
ordinary ignorance of the correct figures Of the
Island trade, export and import, and they all dis
play the same determination to sacrifice Califor-
MIA interests and the same malevolence towards
our rehneries. Our refnefies have, it is true,
given them some occasion for this bad temper.
They have sold pure sugar against their mixtures,
and undersold them in a market Of their own
seeking. 1t is difficult to reply to an article
which evidently gives erroneous figures. For
instance, the American Grocer SAYS at the close
of the first year there was RENTED Sl65, 900 in
duties, or a sum greater than the invoice price of
all the free goods from the United States to the
Sandwich Islands. Why, from this one port we
ship more Tree goods in a month to the Islands,
besides what other ports on the Pacific do, and
in addition to the direct shipments from the
Atlantic. Further on the writer says son
staple articles alone there was RENTED Tin the
year ending June 30th) 81, 125 900, while the
entire value OF the goods exported from this
country to the Sandwich Islands was only $780,
000." The writer gets nearer the truth this
time on the duties RENTED, but makes the
double mistakes of assuming that the shipments
Of domestic produce and manufacture from this
city - all the trade we QQ IN return. tie takes
no account of the trade from Los Angeles, Eureka
and Oregon. 1t would not have suited his pur-
pose to add the trade from the Atlantic coast.
And worse than all, he compared half a years
trade oUtwards with a years trade inwards.
That is, he compares our San Francisco bills for
goods sold IN six months with our bills for goods
bought in twelve months. Further, in the $780,
600 no account is taken of goods shipped from
bond, nor goods shipped in transit, on all of
which California makes some profit. 1t is not
true that the Hawaiian treaty discriminates
against home production; on the contrary, it is
fostering production by creating a demand for
California manufactures and for all classes of agri-
cultural produce-not only those which will bear
long transportation, but those which, like butter
and eggs, will only bear short transportation.
Our refners have no advantage over those of any
other section of the country except in the superb
ority of their patented processes and the reputa-
ton of their goods for freedom from adulteration.
The price paid the planters for their sugar is but
a shade less than Manila sugar of the same
grade duty added would cost. If Island planters
are growing rich it is not in coin; that is we'll
known. They are actually running in debt to
us, they are spending all and more than they are
making in improvements, and their food clothing,
all the necessaries of life and most of their ma
chinery is drawn from some part of the United
States. The trade in domestic produce and goods
Of the Pacific Coast alone with the Islands will
amount to twice the sum of all the duties RENTED
in the current year.
Again, it is not true that the importations of
sugar into San Francisco have aroused the suspi-
cion that a game is being played on the Treasury.
Assistant Secretary French has expressly declared
that there is no foundation for such q suspicion.
Awhile ago we were told sugar was being brought
from Demerara to the Islands. That story has
been abandoned as too ridiculous. Now, the
American Grocer says it is from the East Indies.
What are the facts? Our custom house officers
could detect the difference between East India
ond HauraIfan nua hIin6fOl6 onH there
has not been a vessel from the East Indies or the
Philippine Islands entered port in the Hawaiia
Kingdom for years. If the Eastern reiners want
a share of this sugar, why don't they send agents
to the Islands to buy it? The treaty is not be-
tween California and the Islands, as the editor of
the american Grocer appears to think, but be-
tween the United States and the Islands. Why
does the editor talk of sugar being entered free
at the port of San Francisco which would have
to pay duty at any other port in the United
States3 Is it possible that this writer, in criti-
cising the treaty, does not know that Hawaiian
sugar can be entered free at every port in the
nation? To tell his readers ALEC that our re6ners
are cruelty selling sugar half a cent a pound
below what Eastern refners can lay it down here
for, and in the next line that the treaty has not
reduced the price of sugars to consumers, is the
very climax of absurdity. The intimation that
{" if the citizens of the Pacific Coast will make a
united effort Ito a~brogate the treaty. it is sure to
receive a good support from both parties In the
next Congress" is very kind, but the people of
the Pacific Coast are not inclined to destroy a
treaty If il could be done, by which all classes are
benefited. There is something else however
which they may be inclined to do. Make an
united effort to break up the practice of adultera-
ting sugars and syrups, and similar articles,
whether the government is delrauded or not, and
this action would be sure to receive a good sup
port from both parties in the next Congress.
E In the Missionary Herald for Sept. we find
the following, under the head of Sandwich Is
lands:
Mr.. Alexander, writing from Honolulu, June
Is, says: I" was greatly pleased with the pro-
gress of the pupils OF our theological school as
exhibited in the examination. DIR. Hyde has got
hold Of the language wonderfully, and his whole
soul is in his work. The fact that the Lord has
given US such a man assures me that he intends
to bless the work for which he sent him. lie
goes up with me to Maui next week, and we hope
to form all the pastors of Maui into a Bible-class,
to pursue the study of the Bible under his direc-
ton. We hope thus to establish a link between
him and them that will give him great power to
do them good.
branch of our work. We must have good moth
es or we cannot have a Christian people; our
schools at Honolulu, Waialua, Makawao, and
Kohala, are all prospecting, but all crippled for
the want of pecuniary support.
You may probably think that under the i'm
PoAoO Va % sfNO
in that will enable all such enterprises to go for
ward without any lack but this is a mistake.
This impulse has led to the establishment of so
many sugar plantations, that the capitalists who
sustain them are sorely tried to save themselves
from bankruptcy. The planters are all over
whelmed with debt, and just now can do very
little for such institutions as cur schools. The
enterprises now undertaken on Maui bid fair to
increase greatly our foreign population. Oh that
they might all be brought under the influence OF
the gospel r.rE.E
Is TIE EARTH A VAST FURNACE.-While en-
gagged last May in watching the transit of Mercu-
~, Professor Proctor and his assistant observed
an intensely bright spot in the centre of the
planet as it crossed the Suns disk. Ii is report
ed that, seen through their powerful refraeting
telescope, it appeared as a mere vivid point OF
light, central in the planet, like a hole pierced ID
the middle of a round cardboard. 1t was perma-
nent from the time the planets centre touched
the one limb of the sun until it left the other
mb-ap period of seven hours. "1f the observation
ina oI.,H1o - communicative 80 4 nrnUoa