The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-05-26
Hawaiian Hardware Co., Id,
Momday, May 23, 1892.
BASE BALL, SATURDAY.
CRESCENT V. HAWAII

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III ton per acre, and a mar
ket value of $17.66 per ton.
38,785 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, $40, $50, and the industry
throughout the United States
gives employment to 2oo,78o
people. The product of beet
sugar in California in 1891
amounted to 5000, 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.
vides 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 los 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 1889 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 of
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 run
from II 900 to more than 500
million bushels during the year
and without one dollar of
bounty to the farmer, What de-
auctions are to be drawn from
these figures. Does the sugar
planter of this Kingdom be-
lieve that the bounty on sugar
will be continued without a
long and earnest kick on the
part of other staple producers
in the United States The
Fifty-third Congress will be
increased by twenty-four re-
representatives. and, while the
Farmers Alliance had only
eight of its party elected to
the last Congress it is hoped
that among the additional re-
representatives. there are those
whose sympathy will be with
the farmer and whose efforts
will be directed in behalf of,
and through whom, the farmer
will ask in justice to himself
that there be no discrimination
shown the producer of one
staple to the detriment OF
another; their influence will be
felt and their demands receive
the attention which they Justly
deserve.
The existence of this bounty
is one of the causes Of depres-
sion in the sugar interests in
Hawaii; if it is discontinued
they will receive an impetus
which must be felt in every
branch of trade in the islands
and until it is absolutely GER
tain that the present Congress
will do nothing for the farmer
! in the States If aDDearS short