The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-01-08

beet sugar. The consumption of the
Coast is 10000 tons. The present pro-
duct is not sufficient at present TO
raise any active opposition to the cane
sugar interest. The competition is not
felt. Those who have put large cap
ital into the business here may at any
moment raise a cry against the cane
product and fire the heart of the farm
er and laborer.
Under these condition, the Hawaii
an planter should see the supreme
need of getting into the American fold.
Delay is dangerous. Annexation
should be secured, if possible, before
any new questions are raised. The
Hawaiian planter hardly realizes the
changed conditions of sugar produc
ton. The British West Indies are on
the verge of bankruptcy, and clamor
for relief or annexation to the United
States. Europe can easily supply all
demands. The only high priced mar
ket of the world will be in the States.
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only to protect the beet sugar. Ne
braska is rapidly learning how to
| make this sugar. 1t is well settled
that beets can be grown successfully
in many of the Atlantic States. The
reason why they have not been grown
in those States is, that the farmers
have had no faith in the business.
Success in this State and in Nebraska
will, in time, have an effect in the
older States. The sorghum craze had
| to run it's course.
Mr.. Mckinley understood the tenn
per of the people when he put sugar
on the free list and gave bounty to
home sugar. 1t gave cheap sug
ar to the poor mans home, and pro-
tected the sugar producer. He will
follow this policy if the finances of
the counary will permit it. 1t will
avoid any trouble with the produce of
Cuba. Free sugar from that Island
will not hurt the price of the home
made article, with a bount yon it.
While there is no certainty of the
shape legislation will take in the
United States, so far as the sugar
matter is concerned, it is evident that
the policy of the legislators will be to
protect the home production in some
form. That reciprocity will bring the
Islands within that protection, for any
period of time, is a serious question.
But the Islands, brought within the
territorial limits of the United States,
will have it for what it is worth.
The Presbyterian Ministerial Union
did that, last Monday, in this city,
which would, if done 80 years ago,
have caused them to be ridden on
theological rail. DR.. w. T. Harris, the
National Commissioner of Education,
and Professor Howison of the Univer-
sity of California, were invited to
meet the Union and talk Theology. DR..
Harris is the leading disciple of Hegel
in America, the editor of the Journal
of Speculative Philosophy, and the one
who organized the public schools of
ST. Louis, which became the models
for such schools in the country. AL
though a free thinker, he made no at
tack on revealed religion before the
Union, and asserted that Christianity
was the best of all religions, because
it was one of love and self-sacrifice.
Professor Howison followed him, and
took stronger ground. He refused the
doctrine of the Atonement, nor did he
think that miracles were necessity.
The real evidence of religion was in
ternal, and sprung out of mans rela-
tons to God, which had existed be-
fore the birth of Christ. Christianity
was a statement of the full truth, and
ought to be called THE Gospel of Glad
Tidings." He believed that a Jew
might be a Christian. He might have
added that when that great philan-
thropic Jew, Sir Joseph MOntefore,
died it was asked: rs he saved?" A
Princeton professor replied: Yes, he
was Christian, though he called him
self a Jew"
A large audience of the orthodox
was present. Some of the clergy de-
bated with Professor Howison. The
meeting lasted three hours. The sig
nificant fact was, that not for a mo-
ment was there the least exhibition of
ill-temper, not a hard word was said,
and the best of good nature prevailed.
Men differed but respected each other.
1t was widely different from the angry
debates between the Andover and
Princeton Theological Summaries,
some years ago, which many of us re-
member, when the theological bomb
shells screamed through the air and
burst with a strong smell of sulphur
in the rival camps.
w. n. ARMSTRONG.