The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-01-15
COSTLY RECIPROCITY.

1t was shown from the record IN
Yesterdays Chronicle that our ex-
ports to the Hawaiian Islands for
the four treaty years, from 1877 to
1880, inclusive. footed up $6,516.940,
while our imports from the Islands
for the same four years were $780,
900. The imports exceed the exports
by $6,443, 800, or 97.3 per cent. in
those years. In the last Of the four
-lSS0-the excess OF imports was
the greatest, the figures being: EX-
ports 50, 1876, 400; imports. Sic, S32 600.
Excess Of imports, SIS, 1896, 200. CT 1853
per cent.
The cause of this rapidly ircreas-
ing excess Of imports over exports
lies near the surface and is clear
enough to the San Francisco mer-
chants. Our prin ipal items of ex-
port to the Islands have been ma
chinery and tools to produce and
manufacture the sugar. The plan
tiers being pretty well stocked with
these the market for them is declin-
ing. and it will be years before they
must be renewed. On the other hand,
as local organ of the sugar monOp-
oily eXultingly says, I'VE are supply
ing New Mexico, Colorado and parts
OF Texas with refined sugar, besides
the Pacific Territories" In other
words. the production and importa-
ton OF sugar from the ISLANDS are
being stimulated at the expense Of
the California and Oregon con-
sumer5. This is the way it is done.
The farther east the mOnOpoly's
Hawaiian sugar goes the more it
comes INTO competition with the
sugar imported at New York and
Boston, which has to pay duty OF
3 to- cents per pound. And so 1t
happens that the same quality Of SUI
gar for which the monopoly charges
here 1874 cents it can ship from here
by rail into New Mexico, Texas Col
oradO and Kansas, and even into
Missouri and sell at and 9H cents
per pound; the rates Of transporta-
ton being to the monopoly butt cent,
while the railway, if it does not re-
fuse to ship, right it reserves'char-
geS our merchants cents for ship
ping sugar from the East here. The
monopoly can afford to ship sugar
east if the rates of transportation
are not above the duty that Eastern
sugar has to pay. Under such condi-
tiOnS there is no DOUBT of the a.
menSe future development of the
toHaWaiian sugar imports; for they
can easily reimport any quantity of
sugar exported from the East Indies
Hawaii, as Hawaiian productions;
and there is not much doubt that this
is big CART Of their game. So far
as its refinement here is concerned,
that business is all in the hands of
the Hawaiian monopoly or con-
trolIed by it. And so the expansion
OF imports and the refining of sugar
here benefit no one IN the world but
this monopoly.
Every ton Of sugar imported III
der the treaty causes a dead loss of |
S67.20 to the United States in duty, |
and a corresponding loss to the sugar
planters of Louisiana, who have as
much right to the benefits Of a pro-
tective tariff as the iron-workers Of |
Pennsylvania and the cotton-spin- |
neTS Of Massachusetts, and Georgia. |
There is no doubt that the Hawaiian |
will continue to expand |
it's trade eastward and southwark, |
by foul means or fair, as long as the
treaty stands; nor any doubt that
the California railway monopoly |
will continue to take their subsidy |
and assist in the expansion. The
Eastern importers, with the railway |
in league with the Hawaiian plant
ers, will find competition impossi-
BILE as long as the Hawaiian sugar |
is allowed by the treaty the advan-
tage of cents pound in the mat
ter of duty. The Hawaiian article |
can be shipped from this city even
into New York and undersell the |
imports from Cuba and the West |
Indies with disadvantage ;Sugarcan
beimpOrted tromCuba toHawaii, and
from Hawaii, after reshipment sent |
here, and here all over the Western
and Southern States, underselling |
all sugar that has to pay the regular |
duty. And yet it is fact thai the |
Hawaiian monopoly's rates for su-
gar in this city are from 80 to 40 per
cent, higher thai the rates of the /
same grades ruling at the same time |
in the duty paying cities of the At
lantic.