The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-06-30
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in the course of time rebound to it's
! severe injury.
While the people may be willing,
and certainly are, to offer their encour-
agement TO this, as we'll as any other
industry, such encouragement must not
be at the expense of the entire coast
| and in favor of the few. and there are
many who, in their enthusiasm for
home industry and home product will
be led astray by the glowing reports
and the enthusiastic promises which
will never be fulfilled, and will awaken
in their day to the error. and become
the direct enemy to the party and to
the industry that has brought about
their ruin. 1t is not a healthy condi-
tion of affairs when, for the further
ance of one industry, number of 9TH
ers shall suffer, particularly in the
present issue, when it has been clearly
shown by past experience that the Ha-
waiian sugar, Notwithstanding that Ii
has entered free into the United States,
has not at any time entered into COM
petition with the beet sugar, or de-
pressed it in any form or shape, except
when such depression has been caused
by the manipulators of the sugar, viz,
the Trust and the Sugar Refinery of
California, for its own selfish purposes.
Hawaiian planter who may land his
sugars in America at lesser figure be-
cause he has been permitted to do so
without the payment of duty, will vo-
luntarilE surrender the benefit which
this liberal government has granted,
and place his sugars before the people
of this country in opposition to its
own products. If that were the desire
or intention, wherein would lie the
benefit to such planter in having the
free admission of his products, and by
what right shall we presume that such
will be the case in the year 1898 when
it has never yet been the case, although
this treaty has existed for many years,
that the sugars of Hawaii have been
sacrificed or have been sold in COM
petition with the domestic product?
And if it be true, and if it we're posi-
BILE, that such would be the case, and
that the 100000 tons of Hawaii sugar
will be thrown upon this market to the
great loss and detriment of the entire
beet sugar industry. which we positive
Iy deny, why even then must it not ne
cessarily be shown that other industries
will thrive by virtue of the reduced
cost of this sugar, and that the Amer
lean refiner and the American laborer
will find his occupation by reason
thereof? And surely it must needs ap-
pear as very serious proposition
that the very parties who have de-
graded the article of beet sugar in the
last season, and cast their slur upon it
by placing ii before the people at q
reduced price and branding il with it's
deep red letters, should now be fearful
that the cane sugar, for which they,
themselves, commanded a higher fig
ure, should suffer injury to the de-
graded beet, and we would now ask
whether the friendly and commercial
relationship now existing between this
country and the Hawaiian Islands, but
far more particularly and strategetical
problems that enter into this treaty,
are to be discarded upon the mere
promises of what the beet sugar in
dustry of California suggests?
1t certainly seems to us as though
too much Importance has been placed
upon the pecuniary portions of the
contract, and altogether too little i'm
portance laid to the other advantages,
too we'll known and too we'll under
stood by the brightest minds and the
leading statesmen of the day to re-
quire detailed mention in this article.
1t certainly seems as though if it were
possible for a termination of this tre-
ty, laying all other interests aside,
and tuoching only upon the CONNER
cial interest, it would still be advisable
and essential that such be done only
at such time when occasion for it de-
mands. 1t will be time enough to fig
ure the detriments and the injuries
done our beet interests by the Hawai-
ian cane, when such detriment and in
jury shall be attempted. 1t is not prop
er in the interest of the hundreds and
thousands who have their fortunes in
vested in these plantations, and the
hundreds and thousands of others
whose commercial interests require its
continuance and the millions of others
who see the advantages in having the
Hawaiian Islands friendly power to
the United States in times of peace,