The Hawaiian gazette., 1882-12-06
Reciprocity and the Quality Of Hawaiian
Sugars.

EDITOR GAZETTE 1T seems as though your re-
marks in your issue of the 22nd, upon the quality
of Hawaiian Sugars before and since tho Recipro-
city Treaty, with statistics gathered from the
United States Custom House in San Francisco
must conclusively settle that question in the
minds of all fair minded men,
The superiority of the general quality in color,
Of the ante-treaty Sugars is unanswerably demon
strated from the incontestable testimony of the
highest official record existing in the United
States or elsewhere upon this subject
You have brought this to the rotice of those
hostile TO the Treaty before. The Hon. ]. Mott
Smith has done so. The Hon. Minister Allen has
notably presented the same facts before the For
sign COMMITTEES of the House of Representatives of
the United States of Feb. and March last-aii Of
which and much more has been accessible TO those
who opposed as well as those who favored the
treaty. Somstimes its enemies have charged the
fraudulent importation of sugars the growth of
tigation the United States authorities have found
no such case.
There could be none without the participation
Of the Hawaiian revenue officers, and the United
States Consul residing here.
They have sought 70 prejudice the public mind
by the charge Of brutal treatment of the laborers
BY the planters, which like the other charges are
devoid of truth
In the last San Francisco Weellg Bulletin of
Nov. 9Th, copied from the N. Y. World, note the
following:
"HAvAI1AS SUGAR-NEw YoRK, November 4th.
the World says H. A. Brown has addressed a
long letter TO Secretary Folger in which he says
he has sampled one hundred lots of Hawaiian
sugar imported at San Francisco, and a large.
number Of lots imported at New York, and he Is
Of the opinion that they are Of a much better
quality Of sugar than those imported before the
treaty Of 1875, and, therefore, under the terms of
that treaty, should be Obliged to nav dutv Col
lector Robertson yesterday explained the question
at issue as follows: About two months AGO
three cargoes Of Hawaiian sugar were imported at
this port according to the terms of the Rscproctv
Treaty with the Hawaiian Islands, which saws
sugar produced in that country shall be admitted
free of duty provided that is Of no HIGHER grade
than that imported before the treaty was estab-
lished in le75. The appraisers reported these
three cargoes of better quality, and that they
should pay duty. An appeal was taken to the
Secretary, who returned the papers to the Collector
for further examination. Judge Robertson de-
cided as before and the question, which is one of
fact only, has now been submitted to the Collector
Of Ban Francisco. The subject excites much
attention in the sugar trade"
After all the evidence Of the faIsehood Of this
as 10 the quality Of the sugars am
amazed at its persistent reiteration by those who
being in the way of information must have seen
the testimony.
To refresh the memory of your readers, 1 will
repeat again your statement, of the qualities and
quantities Of the sugars exported from the Islands
70 San francisco in the year of 1875, the year
before the treaty, and the year 1881, under the
treaty that they may see for themselves how
is tho statement that the sugars Of 1881
are of "a much better quality than those i'm
ported before the treaty" 1t will be remembered
hat these figures are from the United States
Custom House in San Francisco where the sugars |
we're imported, the best possible evidence which |
ne nature OF the case admits. The figures are as
follows;