The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1879-11-15
TJIE PACIFIC
Commercial A0bfrtisfr.
SATURDAY. NOVEMBER Is.
lhfvM 81 Aerchant, Oct TO-
The Gist Of the Treaty Business.


The operations Of the Hawaiian Treaty. az
shown by the yOluminOus tables published in to-
days Merchant, may be summarized thus In
the three years before the treaty we imported
from the Islands 1880. O4O pounds Of sugar,
that y % per cent Ut our supply, and 100 ,553,-
9I4 pounds, or II per cent from other foreign
Countries. In the three years since the treaty
went into operation, We have imported 100 ,53S,-
$50 pounds from Hawaii, or 40 per cent Of our
supply. and ia ,2l5 pounds, or 81 per cent,
frUm other foreign countries Therefore we have
paid duty on over IA per cent more sugar than
we have received free under the treaty. The loss
has fallen entirely on CHINA, a country which al
ways demands cOin for the excess Of our imports
over their comparatively email demand for our
products and manufactures Further, it will be
seen by these tables that the direct net profits on
tire trade with Hawaii cannot be estimated at
le-s than about 500 900 a year, and probably it
reaches a million dollars, or nearly the amount
OF duty waived annually by the United States
under the Treaty. The real profit to the United
States IS, however, IN this: that instead Of pay
ing for our leland sugar in coin we are paying
for Jhree-lourths Of IL in products Of our soil,
which our American labor has raised and pre-
pared for export. Our domestic exports with
our shIpbuildIng business, our carrying trade,
freights and passengers, the profit on the foreign
gods which we sell them from our bonded ware
houses, and the commissions our merchants earn
by selling their cOnsIgnments To the trade, more
than balance all the proceeds Of the Island sugar
AulIhito since ne treaty vent lutD lOICe- lulS II
a California showing. but " Is not all California
benefit. Eastern manufacturers dealing with
SIN FHnciscO merchants get their share and
the business and profits of those shipping direct
o. the I-lands from the Atlantic are not included
in this tarement The financial condition Of the
Islands shove that every dollar they have made,
and must Of what they hope To make on the next
crop, has been already spent beforehand IN puT-
chazes from the United States. Planters have
not, IN another Te-Pect, done 80 we'll as they
hoped. because the stimulOus given to production
has rai-ed the price Of labor ON them, and COM
mon field labor which they could formerly obtain
for $l2 n month, including board, row costs
them $50 a month, ana selected American
labOrers are even getting a dollar a day and
board. But that advance in the wages and IN
the character of the labOTing population, has
created a demand for American food, clothing
and luxurie=. and our merchants, manufacturers
and farmers are reaping the harvest which at first
eight appeared To be the exclusive property OF the
HawaiiHns. But the great point Is that we have
made an end Of British influence IN the Islands,
secured amOu control for the United States
and practically made the Hawaiian Kingdom an
American colony, to the great ~discOmfture and
openly expressed regret of our English cousins.
To accomplish such a victory and establish our
selves midway in the Pacific Ocean, by honorable
and peaceable means showed craftsmanship. To
undo It would be national folly and dishonOr.