The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-05-25
Hawaiian Hardware Co., Id,
Mondag, MaI e, 1892.
BASE BALL, SATURDAY.
Kamehameha oToT0T0T 10000 OIL
Honolulu 4ioiIEoio oIx-3

IN 1890 was o5,Z/@ dCICS,
having an average yield OF /
III ton per acre, and a mar
ket value Of sI7.66 per ton. /
1878 tons of grapes were |
sold for the table use, and to
wineries, 235,526 tons, during
$4,000. The total valuation
of the vineyards including the
land amounted in 1890 to
$50, 64o,35 and the industry
throughout the United States
gives employment to 2oo,78o
people. The product of beet
sugar in California in 1891
amounted to 8,o69,538 pounds,
upon which the government
paid a bounty of SI6o.4o3,
while on the grape industry,
standing side by side with
sugar in the matter of giving
employment, as we'll as in
revenue to the employer, is
passed by without a dollars
worth Of encouragement from
the United States government.
Since the census which pro.
yides these figures was taken
the vineyard and wine produc-
ing industries have sprung up
in Florida and promise to be-
come as important as in any
state in the Union. And this
without the subject of bounty
being considered. In 1890 the
wool production in the United
| States was, in round numbers,
| 265 million pounds, while the
imports of wool amounted to
more than Io5 million pounds
and there's no bounty to the
wool grower. There are more
than 100 million dollars invest
| ed in truck farms in the United
States, bringing a net return
to the producers of Is million
dollars annually. And yet
they toll along without a
bounty. The report of the
Secretary of Agriculture in the
United States for 1850 gives
the product of tobacco for that
year as 565,795,ooo pounds
with a value of nearly "A mil
lion dollars and all of it grown
without any bounty being
paid. The production d
wheat-the greatest of all sta
pie industries in the United
States, was, in 1890, 400 mil
lion bushels, corn more than
a billion bushels, while buck
wheat, rye, barley and oats rur
from II 900 to more than 5oc
million bushels during the yea
and without one dollar o
bounty to the farmer. What de
auctions are to be drawn from
these figures. Does the suga
planter of this Kingdom be
lieve that the bounty on suga
will be continued without
long and earnest kick on thu
part of other staple producer
; in the United States )? Tn
Fifty-third Congress will b
increased by twenty-four re
representatives. and, while tn
Farmers Alliance had onl
,, eight of its party elected t
the last Congress it is hope
, that among the additional re
representatives. there are thos
whose sympathy will be wit
the farmer and whose effort
will be directed in behalf o
and through whom, the farme
will ask in justice to himse
that there be no discriminate
shown the producer of on
! staple to the detriment {
another; their influence will b
felt and their demands receiv
the attention which they just
| deserve.
The existence of this bount
is one Of the causes of depre:
sion in the sugar interests i
Hawaii; if it is discontinue
they will receive an impetu
which must be felt in ever
branch of trade in the island
and until it is absolutely Gel
tain that the present Congress
will do nothing for the farme
TN the States it appears ShOr