The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-01-05
SOME SOLID STATEMENTS
ATALK ON THE HAWAIIAN TREATY
Minister Carter Notes Some Reasons fol-
Negotiating the Instrument and
which Recommends its Adop-
ti0n-Mercantile Facts

WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.-Mr. Carter, the
Hawaiian minister, in conversation with
an Associated Press reporter, to-day,
concerning the proposed extension OF
the Hawaiian treaty, said: "Much has
been written and said about the treaty,
based on misapprehension of the
facts. The commercial advantages to
Americans he knew To be greater
than is generally understood. OF
course, merchants and traders of the
Pacific coast were the most benefited,
and statements to the effect that the
IN ra'iilf favor coast people Were not
of the present trade O"rdoUs relations
with Hawaii were unfounded. The
Impression that the treaty had created
sugar monopoly, or had contributed
10 the continuance of monopoly on the
Paci1c coast, was entirely erroneous.
a combination of sugar retineries
existed before the treaty was made, 1t
had fought against the treaty when it
was negotiated. 1t would not be Sc
riously effected should the treaty be
abrogated. It's field of operations
was far removed from the
retisers of the east, and in this
existed before the treaty was made. II
had fought against the treaty when it
was negotiated. 1t would not be seri-
ously effected should the treaty be
abrogated. Its field of operations was
| far removed from the re-
liners of the east, and in this
fact alone lay its advantages. Hawahai
! old not produce sugar enough to effect
American prices TO consumers, and,
therefore, injured no American pro-
ducers. The price of raw sugars
imported into San Francisco was
regulated by the market at
Manila on the one hand and Cuba and
Porto Rico on the other. A San Fran-
cisco purchaser would not pay more for
Hawaiian sugar than the cost of Manila
sugar, nor would an Hawaiian
producer sell for less than he
could get in New York; less, OF course,
the difference in freight and charges,
about three-fourths of u cent per pound
| Bnt the advantages to Americans were
not all included in the retail prices of
sugars. The American export trade to
! the islands had under the treaty
grown from almost nothing to $4,000 900
q year. 1t was estimated, he said that
American ownership In Hawaiian
sugar plantations amounted
TO ......... ........ ;........ -. SlO,5oO,OOO
In the ocenic mercantile marine $4,000
In the inter island mercantile ma
rine.. .........,,.....,..... ......... a,jOO,OOl
In American banking capital. 3'5OO,OOO
| In American mortgages ON foreign
owned property. l00O,00o
Total. ........,......,.,. e. s2O,OOO,OOO
! This was an investment upon which
Americans made an interest and profit
aside from that made upon the
81, $4,000 of the annual imports
and eXuort trade. Six-sevenths of this
capital was created by and through the
treaty.
Mr.. Carter said the loss to the United
States by the free admission of Hawaiian
sugar was greatly over estimated,
and would not amount to
more than $l,5OO,0OO or $1,000.
600 per year. lie considered
the political advantages to the United
States Tin aiding Hawaii, and in pre-
serving her Independence, and pre-
venting the establishment by other
powers of naval stations, which, he
said, menaced American interests on
the Pacific outweighed in the
minds of American statesmen
the question of profit and loss. He
thought the present treaty relations
would be maintained, as the interests of
tine countries demanded II.