The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-03-03

them OF the yoke OF Spanish tyranny and
then their sugar, as well as that of the
American planters there. would come into
our ports free of duty. Why should not Mr.
Atkins be cared for as well as Mr.. Spreck-
els?
Is there much Boston capital invested in
sugar planting in Cuba ?"
Yes, a large sum | don't know Just
how much, but is a very considerable in
vestnent. The late Mr.. Hemmenway made
a great deal of money out of his sugar
estates in Cuba"
THE PECUNIARY BASIS.
Another gentleman said "Our epposi-
ton to the Spreckels combination is, of
course, based on purely pecuniary consider
atoms. If we could get our sugar into the
Pacsfc coast market, and make there a sue
cessful competition with the ~monopolists,
we should have nothing to say. Another
point to be considered is that a renewal of
the treaty, or annexation, would. under
existing conditions, be of no avail to us. As
long as Spreckels and Stanford can keep our
sugars out of the Pacific coast market, it
makes no difference to US whether it is an
nexation or reciprocity. The remedy for
the evil of monopoly is the free admission
of sugar from every place. 1t was urged in
0SAoh ~ IN AOOiRlO~Ay NACohN NAo ~ NO6iO
build up the islands and furnish our manu-
facturers with an outlet for their goods
but the result has been that. while the
islands have grown Prodigiously in wealth,
the planters there have been buying their
sugar-mill machinery in England, and the
miscellaneous trade of the kingdom is going
largely to foreigners. If the islands were
annexed to US, our tariff would operate to
give US the trade Of the people out
there. There ought to be some way of com-
polling railways to deal equally by all. 1t is
all wrong that the central Pacific should
combine to shut out any class Of eastern
goods from the California market"
A gentleman conversant with the history
of the Hawaiian treaty said: Originally.
the treaty was the scheme of q member of
New England capitalists, who conceived the
idea of going out to Hawaii, getting hold of
the abandoned sugar estates, and. by means
of a reciprocity treaty, banging their sugar
into this country duty free. But Claus
Spreckels, who was engaged In sugar refin-
ing in San Francisco. stole a march on the
Eastern men. He skipped across the water
to Honolulu, and had a sitdown with King
Kalakaua, who was heels over head in debt.
The King has a state salary of $50. 900 a
year, but it was, and is still, too small to
pay his royal debts and his extravagancies.
He has a club house, and INDUCES in ex-
pensive pastimes. Spreckels got on the
Kings weak side and induced him to sell
him 10000 acres of crown lands for 81 per
acre. The planters got their backs up at
this. and made it so suItry for His Majesty
that the Kings Ministers became frightened
and refused to ratify the sale. But, even
then, Spreckels was too willy for them. He
had the King make him a knight of the
re I'm, the obnoxious ministers were dis.
missed, and a new ministry was formed,
which did ratify the arrangement regarding
the crown lands. SIR Claus then went to
work to get addition ! land. He found TO-
600 more acres of good cane land on the
Island of Maui, and bought them at a
nominal price. By means of his line of
vessels to San Francisco, Sir Claus could
PIX FREIGHTs
to suit himself and so with the monopoly of
the refining business at San Francisco, he
easily got control of the Hawaiian sugar
interest. By judicious alliances he has
made such a powerful combination on the
Pacific coast that the eastern r~efiners can
not compete with him, the Pacific railways
being in league with the San Francisco su-
gar king. 1t has been proposed here in
oOSbOn ny VA OSIC IAat H CoStCIu Z
iners combine and send their sugars to
California by way of the Isthmus, and thus
bring Spreckels to terms by underselling
operate [ do not know because | hear that
Spreckels and his associates have all the
Pacific coast grocers under their thumbs and
even the smallest retailers fear to sell east
ern sugar, even if they could get it at better
rates than SpreckeIs would furnish it to
them. 1t is calculated here in Boston tn t
Spreckels is making 3 cents a pound-but
anyway, he is making millions of dollars
yearly, and he can possibly buy his W y
through Congress.
lis it true that Spreckels controls all the
product of the Islands?
Practically, though his organs on the
Pacific Slope deny this. You will judge of
the power of the Spreckels combination
when | tell you that in San Francisco its
members are estimated to be jointly
WORN OVER o1O0. 600 900.
This is an immense interest, and it will
have its power at Washington, as all great
masses of capital have. Ali Spreckels has
got to do in Hawaii is to give the word, and
it IS, The King is . lover of
and can be pensioned off as the
price VI III CoISCuL W duuSAdtlOu. 1Ou
will remember that when he was in Europe
it was reported that he had gone there to
sell his kingdom but Spreckels did not
mean that any European Power should get
of his Pacific plantations. The King
is unpopular at home, and It is whispered at
Honolulu that it is his dream te. get possess
sion of great wealth and go and live in
Paris. where kings retired from business
are numerous. and enjoy all the prestige of
without care or worry. Kalakaua
delighted with Paris, and would like
better than that Sir Claus should
set him up in a fine establishment there"
What is the native population of the
Islands?
"A century ago there were 100000 of
hem; but now, | understand that there are
ess than 40 .000-they are dying off with
eprosy and the diseases of civilization. The