The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-09-12

industries, a representative deputa-
ton of these trades waited on Lord
Salisbury, the English Premier, early
in August, and was introduced by
the Lord Mayor of London. It is
thus described in an English ex-
change:
The deputation comprised delegates from
the following branches of industry, viz:
Sugar machinery engineers, iourneymen
coopers, coppersmiths, brass-workers, dock
and riverside laberers, British seamen,
watermen and 1ightermen, sugar refining
operatives, animal charcoal burners, ringers
and sailmskers, hOOp-benders and dock car
men. Besides delegates from London
factories, works and docks, delegates on be-
half of fellow workmen in factories and
works in Liverpool, Plymouth, Derby, Not
tingham, Greenock, Glasgow, Leith, Bristol
and Birmingham were in attendance. The
Lord Mayor Of London (Sir r. N. Fowler,
NJ. P), Mr.. Alderman Cowan (Messrs.
Cowan i Sons, sugar refners, etc.,, Mr..
TomIinson, M. P, and Mr.. Forrest Fulton
were also present.
Secretary of the Scottish Workmen's
Association for the Abolition of
Foreign Sugar BOunties, made the
argument for the deputation. He
said that the broad question was
whether British national labor, at
home and in the Colonies, was any
longer to remain subjected, in the
home market, to bOunty-aided COM
petition of foreign labor. Free trade
in sugar in England stimulated pro-
duction. This production gave vast
employment to labor, both skilled
and unskilIed. But the system of
export bounties had secured for
foreign bounty-aided labor more than
half of the work and wages British
national consumption of sugar gen.
Grated. Last year all foreign refined
sugar and unrefned beet sugar,
which together amounted to 81 per
cent of the total imports, were ex-
ported from countries granting
bounties, whilst before the era of
bOunties these same countries failed
to contribute more than per cent of
the total imports. The British colo
MES, he continued, could supply all
the home consumption; but the arbi-
trary intervention of foreign State
bounties had neutralized these natu-
raj advantages in the international
competition in the home markets,
and foreign wOrkmen, instead of
British home and colonial labor, had
gained the employment caused by
the increased consumption Of sugar.
The German and other continental
sugar bOunties had long existed, and
were still maintained in full force
against British labor at home and in
the colonies. But the most recent
illustration Of the effect of bounties
was afforded by America. The inn
ports of sugar from America in 1882,
without bOunties, $500 tons; 1883,
partly with bounties, $500; 1884,
wholly with bounties, $1,000; 1885, for
six months, $4,000 tons.
Other speakers followed, and the
Marquis of Salisbury remarked that
this was one of the gravest questions
with which British statesmen had to
deal, owing to the widespread de-
preston, caused by artificial compe-
tition with British home and colonial
industry. The remedy lay in
change of fiscal policy and legislation
and not by diplomacy. 1t would not
US to find this policy adopted
by the Tories, and thus enable them
to capture the new vote of the en-
labor classes.