The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1897-05-20
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least 80 at different points in Illinois,
as many in Ohio, Indiana Minnesota,
Iowa, and Nebraska. with many in
Oregon. Virginia, Pennsylvania, North
Carolina and very many more in New
York, Michigan and other States This
force is compact body, fully advised
how inimical the Hawaiian treaty is
to their interests. while the labor ar
CARNATIONS of the country are also op-
posed to the treaty. because the aver
age Hawaiian planter employees con-
tract labor to make suagr, which comes
in free to compete with well-paid labor
in field and factory in the United Stat
eS"
How does the yield of sugar in Ha-
waii compare with the yield in the
United States?"
Hawaii has a great advantage in
that also. I have here an extract from
a recent letter to a Washington paper,
from Honolulu, in which the writer
says:
In full view of our city, u miles
away as the bird flies, 1876 acres or
sugar cane have lately been cut and
ground. yielding an average of slightly
over II tons of raw sugar to the acre.
Has such a yield ever been approXi-
mated in any other country? / be-
lieve that the average yield on plant
cane on all our plantations is between
and 5 tons One and half tons in
Louisiana is heavy yield"
How have these labor and produc-
tive factors affected the United
States?'
I'm the first place, our Treasury has
lost about $60,000,000 of revenue. The
Hawaiian sugar planters did not need
that bounty. The fertility OF their soil
and their coolie labor were ample ad
vantages The original treaty was de-
nounced in Congress as a job and it
is certainly operating very injuriously
on our domestic sugar industry. 1t
has run about three years beyond the
time specified, and we are especially
entitled to be relieved from its oper-
alton at this time, because Hawaii can
export about 1000 900, 600 pounds, or
sufficient to furnish all the sugar that
the Pacific Coast and other States west
of the Mississippi River require. and
it thus enters into sharp competition
on unequal terms with our domestic
product and has frequently deprived
us of our own local mar
kets. Our domestic producers have
cheap sugar from Germany on one
side, and free sugar from Hawaii on
the other, and the contest is too un-
equal. UuIess we have substantial
relief, domestic sugar production is
doomed
FEAR OF TREATY ABROGATION.
What are the advantages under
this treaty?"
There are none. Some have been
manufactured for the special Jse of
the Hawaiian Annexation Club, locat-
ed here. For instance, Hawaii took
from us a million dollars worth more
Of products in 1890 than she did in
1895. Our export trade with her was
no greater in 1895 than in 1893 while
her free exports to us, mostly sugar,
have increased enormously. IF we
should make Hawaii present of all
our exports and million dollars be-
sides, it would only balance what we
remit to her annually in duty on her
sugar.
why is annexation being pressed
SO vigorously at this time?"
well, the incentive behind that is
found principally in the fear which
the Hawaiian sugar planters have
that the treaty may be abrogated. OF
course annexation in any form would
allow Hawaiian sugar to come in free
for all time, and that is the real point
with those here who compose the An
nexation Club. AS long ago as 1872
Gen. Schofield, who was sent to Ha-
Waii to investigate matters said:
" The great object of the Hawaiian
government in seeking a reciprocity
treaty with the United States has
been, and will probably continue to
be, to relieve it's sugar planters from
the operation of our tariff on that
article. The cession of Pearl River
harbor could probably be obtained by
the United States in consideration of
the repear Of the duty on Sandwich
Island sugar. indeed. the Hawaiian
sugar planters are anxious for reci-
procity treaty, or so anxious rather
for free trade in sugar with the United
States, that many of them openly pro-