The Hawaiian gazette., 1897-02-26
WATCH THE TRUST
Some Good Advice On
the Subject.
Needs of the Community Anent
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Methods.

this Republic. these people, the cause.
of annexation, and the most vital in
terest Of the country, zest and sub
stance are added to the situation.
It is facing a foe, danger, a pos
sible disaster, that summons to the de-
Tense courage, sharper discernment,
faith, valor and determination.
But let us carefully consider: First,
we shall measure the power, the front,
the personnel, the material and the re-
sources of the other side in this ineyi-
table contest
AS President Dole has said, as others
have repeated, and as all know, the
deadly and remorseless enemy of the
chief industry, and the principal sup
port and sustenance of this country is
that gigantic octopus, the American
Sugar Trust. 1t is the nightmare of
those who would have Hawaii prosper
as it is, the dread and terror of the
common people, and many of those of
higher rank in the United States. 1t is
being pursued by the intelligence, law
loving and the honorable of that coun-
try.
The trust is making new tack.
Time was when it despised and spurn-
ed and spat upon the promoters of pro-
duction of beet sugar from American
soil. 1t could then, by political inf1u-
ence, disgraceful to free country, as
sure itself the raw article cheaper from
other shores.
Politically the trust has been throt-
tied. 1t died hard and is trying to be a
phoenix. The doom was not sealed till
President Hayermeyer was forced to
confess TO a Senate committee that the
monster monopoly had contributed
funds to both or all political parties
had boldly bribed right and left. Now
the trust, for purposes that are clear,
must needs form an alliance with the
beet sugar interest. That brings not
insignificant factor into the camp. 1t
puts the tiller of the soil in front of
and ahead of the trust dragon.
What does the beet culture and re-
filming interest amount to at this time
There were five establishments in the
United States six years ago. Nebraska
had two, Utah had one and California
had two. There are today the same
Claus Spreckels is going in for beets
TO punish his two sons who bested him
in contest for ownership of the larg-
est plantation in Hawaii. In the days
of monarchy he put fear into the heart
of the King, but the citizen of Hawaii
nei bends the knee to no man.
California became the constituency
of Colonel Spreckels in these premises
And why? That commonwealth is in
desperate straits. Her export trade is
slipping away Her mines are filled
with stagnant water. There is no sale
for the fruits of her orchards. The
farmers are poverty stricken and
dumbfounded.
All, California wants a sugar beet
boom like unto land boom or an or
chard boom or even a fiesta boom or a
wine or climate furore. A spark OF
hope looms ahead, shining out to the
noble, but wounded state that body and
soul man, woman and child is the
helpless makeshift instrument ant
slave of the Southern Pacific Railway
There you are as to our old friend
California, rather to be pitied than cen
sured.
Utah, as a State, is better organized
and equipped and located than Cali
fornia. The former is proud and solid
empire within herself-Mormons or nc
Mormons In Utah there is presented
the most advanced and successful ex-
ample of a harmonious, well managed
and conservative community that car
be found The leaders have decided
and not without much deep thought
that the interest of church and state
GdenticaD are with the trust And the
Mormons are singularly steadfast and
true to their own interests.
Every well-informed man is ac-
quainted with the marked ,peculiarities
or characteristics of Utah. A peep al
the open record will disclose the gen.
uine unfairness, if not infamy, of thi!
new partnership of the lettering Sugar
Trust
In the -Missippi Congress a
Ogden, Utah, May, 1893, an exhaustiv,
paper upon "Sugar-Beet Culture" wa
read by Col A. c. Fisk of Denver. HI
is an economist of reputation, and {
very able and broad-minded man, al
well as one of wealth. Colonel FISH
demonstrated, by reliable data, tina
400 sugar-beet reineries could be es
tablished and would supply the United
States with the article required. Johr
P Irish and few other men of his
iIk were in that Congress States
and Territories represented-and they
pigeon-holed Colonel Fisk's paper
Now it will be resurrected-for the
benefit of the trust
There cannot be, in the mind of {
reasonable man in Hawaii, an absence
of alarm over the representations thai
have been made to the committee al
Washington. Stern and earnest, and
seemingly incontrovertible statement:
are lodged in evidence. Happily the
enemies Of the Islands have fired vol
ley from guns for which they have ne
more ammunition excepting blank car
tridges. Then it is now the time fol
Hawaii TO be at once defensive ant
aggressive. Throw a strong ssarchligh
on the Trust and its damrtable ma
chinations. Let the facts get to al