The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-01-27

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consists 9atesafrTy one-third loyal American
citizens, and that they constitute the most
important and wealthiest part of that
colony; that it is American thrift and
American enterprise which builded this
magnificent trade, so that its very pros
perity is now used as an argument against
the renewal. If every acre of the sugar
lands of the United States were under cult
walton, that would be insufficient to supply
one-half the sugar demand of fifty millions
of people. Our population is rapidly
increasing, and we must either expect larger
importations of sugar or else annex sugar.
lands. Reciprocity treaties are compro-
mise measures in this connection, and it
should be the policy of our government
rather to extend such treaties to other
nations than to discuss the possibility of an
abrogation of existing ones.
There need be no anxiety that the Sand
witch Island sugar will ever come into such
competition with our own sugar produce as
to make the latter improbable. For, in
the first place, the price of the island sugar
is entirely regulated by Manila quotations;
and secondly, the Islands have nearly
reached their maximum of production. The
planter at Hawaii naturally prefers to sell
his produce as near to his own door as pos
sible, in order to obviate risks and to expe-
dite returns. There is but one port which
has representative buyers at the Islands.
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buyers allow the Hawaiian planters for
their sugar Manila rates. % cents rebate
of duty added for if San Francisco were
buying sugar at Manila, it would have to
pay that much duty, and since under the
treaty Hawaiian sugar is free. the amount
of the duty goes . to the benefit of the
planter. Under this system of encourage
ment. nearly every avail bic acre nearly
every odd patch of soil at the Hawaiian
Islands has been brought into requisition.
and there is at present tile sugar land to be
found there which is not In cultivation
Indeed, it is the opinion of some experts that
the maximum production has actually been
reached, and that henceforth it will be grad.
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tied average. Already the soil shows signs
of exhaustion, and fertilizers are in good de-
mand at the Islands. The coming crops will
be grown from r~attoons, the growth from the
seed proving too exhaustive for the soil.
To the impartial there is nothing in all
this which can be construed as a monopoly.
The Islanders. though well treated by our
buyers. would not object to Eastern or any
other refners bidding for their crops. San
Francisco would be glad to have one or
more additional refneries upon this coast;
the grocers would cert,inly encourage any
enterprise in that direction. Why this per-
petual peevish cry of monopoly? Can it be
possible that our little prosperity has caused
this fretful jealousy among the sister States?
Provincial as we are, we are more generous.
We are not jealous of New York, or Boston,
or Chicago because Of their superior advant-
ages. We try in our small way TO improve
our opportunities, and are glad if others i'm
prove theirs. 1t is possible that some stray
number of a vil!lfying newspaper has reach
ed the East, and it is possible that there
they give attention to what the Chronicle
says? Californians are foolishly prone to
boast of their superiority over others. If
they ever get to be foolish enough to boast
Of such things as the vilest slanderer, or the
most INSCRIPTIONS liar, or the most mer-
cenary newspaper in the world. they will be
likely to bring the Chronicle into notice,
and demand that its proud pre-eminence be
sonceded.-S F. Wasp.