The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-05-24

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having an average yield of
III ton per acre, and a mar
ket value of SI7.66 per ton.
38,7S5 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
SS6,64o,35o, and the industry
throughout the United States
gives employment to 2oo,7So
people. The product of beet
sugar in California in 1891
amounted to 8,o69,538 pounds,
upon which the government
paid 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.
vldes 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 1880 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 SOC
: million bushels during the year
t and without one dollar OIL
: 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 c
long and earnest kick on the
part of other staple producer:
in the United States The
, Fifty-third Congress will BIZ
increased by twenty-four re
representatives. and, while the
= Farmers Alliance had only
eight of its party elected tt
: the last Congress it is hopee
that among the additional re
personalities there are those
O whose sympathy will be will
U the farmer and whose effort.
will be directed in behalf of
F. and through whom, the farme
ID will ask in justice to himsel
y that there be no discrimination
o shown the producer of one
f. f. staple to the detriment O
d another; their influence will b.
a a felt and their demands receive
h the attention which they justl,
q q deserve.
n The existence of this bounty
Il is one Of the causes Of depres
d sion in the sugar interests il
q; :, Hawaii; if it is discontinued
$. they will receive an impetu:
D. which must be felt in every
Of branch Of trade in the island:
IS and until it is absolutely Ger
tain that the present Congress:
Of Of will do nothing for the farmer
of in the States If aDDearS ShOr