The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-04-25
ABOUT SUGAR.
The Ramie Machines, Etc.
Important Report from the Hawaiian
Commissioners at New Orleans.

The following extracts from a dis
patch received by the Minister of
Foreign Agairs, from Hon. DR.. J. Mott
Smith, Special Commissioner for this
Kingdom at the New Orleans Expo
sition, appearing to His Excellency
to be of high public interest, be has
requested and authorized their publ
cation in the ADVERTISER:
fThe Government of the United
States has placed a chemist at this
Exposition, mainly for the purpose
of aiding planters in their manipuls-
ton of sugar. He Or. c. A. Cramp-
tom kindly offered to analyze for me
our specimens of Hawaiian sugars.
The result / have now the honor to
| enclose to you. The specimens sub
| mitted were from the WaimanalO
plantation. The result you will no
tice is for No. l, 96. 10; for No. 2,
| 91.20; for No. 3 SO. The figures given
as reducing sugars are, as the
| doctor informs me, the element
which is doubled and substracted
by refiners, from the per cent
sucrose direct when determin-
ing the net value of the sugars for re-
| fining purposes. In remelting and
refining raw sugars, the reducing
or invert sugars, destroy the crystal
liable sugar to the extent of twice
the bulk of the invert sugar. AS
these analyses have the stamp of Gov
eminent authority, they will be of
great interest to our planters.
EXPERIMENTAL CANE PLANTING IN
JAMAICA.
''I enclose also a list of the sugar
| canes which have been domesticated
OH the island of Jamaica. Professor
| Morris, who has charge of the Gov
| eminent Botanical Garden on that
! island, has made a speciality of get
ting together canes from all parts of
! the world, and is greatly interested
! in proving their respective merits.
| The list sent is M erely that of names
! taken by me from the labels on the
canes and without any explanation
| by Mr.. Morris, who returned to ia
maica shortly after my arrival here.
However, it is my expectation that /
can forward more precise and fuller
| information as to the merits of these
canes not many days since through
the courtesy of DR.. Champion, who is
now Analysing the canes sent to him
fresh by Professor Morris, It is
deemed highly important by planters
here, and may add elsewhere, to fix
upon the varieties of cane best
adopted to their several localities.
The Lahaina cane, which is so pro-
ductive with us, will not do at all
well here in Louisiana, and it may
deteriorate with us after constant and
continuous planting. An analysis of
! the juices of the canes, now under the
hands of DR.. Champion, will at al |
events go a great way towards de-
| termining the merits of these canes.
DIsCoURAGING TO PLANTERS.
Il find in talking with the plan tiers
here, a Encouragement and an I'M
will Iingness to branch out in i'm
proved methods, which results from
! the same causes which have all
along hampered us. They are dread
ing and fearing political action on the
tariff, and they are pretty sure that
making sugars free of duty will be
| the death knell of Louisiana sugar
| planting. The planters here cannot
live without protective tariff They
have not raised any sugars which
have cost less than to 81 cents pei
pound on the average, although now
the more energetic and enterprising
ones are hoping to produce at II
! cents. Even at this cost they can
hardly prosper without protection
and in face of the competition with
beet root sugars. The opinion pre-
walls among them that the next
! CONGRESS WILL MAKE SUGARS FREE.
cit is the rock on which they expect
to be wrecked, and they will put
forth all their political influence to
avoid the danger. One of their fore
most thinkers said to me the other
day that they would be glad to have
our aid in fighting against reduction
of duty-that he could see our inter
ests and his on that point had COM
munity, only he was afraid to aban-
| don Louisiana's strong argument,
viz, tn at the cost of her sugars was
owing to labor made free : and in
| that fact, that she had a right to
hel pful aid at the hands of Congress.
( You have contract labor he said,
which is a species Of slavery, or at
least we are bound to throw it up as
! such.'- The distinction has from our
| point of view no substantial founda-
| ton and cannot be made the basis of
sound political argument. Hence
I conclude that the next winters sit
uation will find Hawaii and Louisi-
ana being on friendly terms as to the
! sugar question. But [ honestly fear
| tI,ot fIo Jutyy NJ, I'll no aitbar totally