The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1890-04-05

whether it he an Appropriation Bill |
or Reciprocity Treaty with Brazil
or Mexico.
With this privilege TO at any time
sweep away the benefits to us, Of
the treaty, reserved by the United
States, coupled with our undigniiled
and humiliating position in being
fettered trom in any manner reliev.
ing ourselves Of the incubus OF the
treaty, after its present benefits shall
have developed into positive bur.
den, does It require any further
argument to demonstrate the fallacy
of the present proposition!
But the advocates of further action
contend that this objection proceeds
entirely upon political conditions
and contingencies whose probability
they deny. If we thus invade the
realms of political probabilities in
American politics, the objections
above urged against the proposed
extension, are at least supported by
the following notorious facts, viz:
|. American statesmen have for
several years concurrcd in the ne.
cessity of largely reducing their re-
venues, the amount necessary TO be
wiped out being variously estimated
from $50, 100000 to 100000, 900.
=. The tariff on sugar yields the
United States Treasury 4 revenue Of
about S5G, 900, 900.
3. In the first session of the jOth
Congress (summcr Of 1889 two
several bills were passed.--onc by
the House Of Representatives, and
the other by the Senate-affec,ing
this duty. The Senate bill proposed
to entirely abolish such duty, and
grant bounty TO American sugar
rs substitute therefor, while the
House hill merely proposed n reduc-
ton in the duty of 40 percent. 1t
is true neither of these bills became
law, hut they indicated the attitude
of the two parties in the respective
branches of Congress the Demo
Gratis in the House, and the Rcpub-
licans in the Senate.
1. The Republicans are now in
control of both branches of Con-
grcss, and the Republican majority
of the House. Ways and Means
Committee has, according TO press
reports already TO hand, determined
10 recommend reduction of 30
percent in the sugar duties, without
| the substitution of Il bounty.
j. The promise to reduce duties
on the neccssarics of life, imported
from other lands, is one of the most
prominent planks in the platform of
the now dominant party in the
United States. Sugar is universally
recognized as one of these. The
home production of this article, rs
compared with the entire cOnsumD-
tion,s insignificant. The production
Of the entire State Of California is
less than that Of y single Hawaiian
plantation.
q. There Is now IN session in
Washington the so-callcd Pan-Amcri-
can Congress, called for the purpose
of dcvising bases of free trade rela-
tions between the United States
and each of her sister republics OF
America. Everybody (unlcss, in.
deed, the advocates of the treaty now
under review) believes that said
Congress will speedily result in the
adoption of n series of reciprocity
treaties, for the purpose of cstab
fishing such free trade. The well
known sugar-producing resources o
those southern republics, coupled
: with the abundant capital and rest
less enterprise Of the American peo
pie, leave little room to doubt tha
| snch reciprocal relations will b.
; promptly followed by an influx o
| duty free sugar into the Unite,
| States such as will threaten T.
swamp our planting interests.
I 7. At the conference held at tn
| Foreign Office on April lst, plantc
t Of large experience (Mr. ii. +
@ Baldwin, declared 1t rs his opinio
Y that a reduction of even 30 pcrccn
: in the advantages we now posses
n over other countries, in the Amer
|, can sugar market, would so crppl
( some of our plantations that the
+ could not continue to grow sugar.
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