The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-06-29


with the imported Hongkong sugar,
that Beet sugar should have been offer
ed in this market at &c below the
price Of Western Sugar Refinery
brands. What arguments to-day viii
avail to educate the people of this
country to the adoption OF beet sugar
and TO use il at their homes, when the
Western Refinery places a less value
to such sugars than the Hawaiian cane
product, and when such refners, In
place of endeavoring to educate the
prejudices that have heretofore exist
ed. shall exaggerate and increase such
prejudices by placing beet sugars upon
the markets at a material reduction
under the cane sugars; and we respect
fully ask the Alameda refinery with its
comparatively small output, whether
they to-day can sell one-tenth Of said
output at the full price that cane su-
gar command in this market, and their
answer will be, NO" and we, there
fore, ask who is doing most for the
beet-sugar industry Of this Coast, those
who for the past year have agitated
among the confectioners the advisable
ity of it's use, and who have consumed
over thirty thousand dollars worth Of
beet sugar in a single season in one
factory alone, and have given their
time money and labor in persistent
efforts to make the same a success, and
to educate the people to it's uses, or
the refinery, who, by a reduced estab-
Iished valuation, continues to call at
tention to the consumer OF it's defects
and inferiority, and who show, by vir-
tue of reduced prices, the necessity of
sacrifices TO command sales?
Thus we claim that we have more
the beet sugar in the effort to remove
the prejudice, and to create the demand
after production, and we desire to call
particular attention to the advantage
OF that refinery which, by virtue of
mixing beet with cane sugars, is en-
abled to dispose of same at "a TO &c
better advantage than it's competitor
who manufactures the beet alone.
We claim, and we are satisfied that
there are many who viii join issues
with us, that the growing of the beet
and the making of beet sugar is but
the smaller part of the venture, and
that the consumption of the same and
its ready acceptance by the people, at
its full value, and without reduction,
is the only step toward the encourage
ment of it's culture, and of beet sugar
manufacture, and therefore we must
nceQ take ISSUE WlIn any
corporation who stands before the pub
lie as the advocate Of philanthropy
and zeal in the cause of domestic pro-
duction who does not lend his or their
aid in preventing its depression by
permitting it to be placed before the
people as an inferior article at an in
ferior price. Nor will we, in enthusi-
asm for the home industry, consider
success established, until such time as
the beet sugar product on the Pacific
Coast shall stand on it's merits with
the cane sugar as its peer in quality
and price, and command the respect
and uses of the consumer.
The article further states that the
result will be the establishment of
more refineries in California, and in
stead of the California product being
used as a supply for the Pacific Coast
States and Territories, it will go to
the consumers of the Missouri River
territory, and perhaps, eventually, as
far east as Chicago What is true,
or may become true. in the case of the
beet sugar in this regard, has ever been
true as regards the Hawaiian cane
sugar.
1t has ever been the possibility I'M
der the favorable contracts with the
planter at Hawaii. that California
should be a great distributing point,
and the sugar Tefninfi industry should
reach huge proportions, but we will
respectfully ask the gentleman who
wrote the article in the Call" of
April 9th, who is responsible that at
the present time there exists but ONE
REFINERY on this Pacific Coast oper-
ating on cane sugars, and who is re-
sponsible for the destruction of every
competitor that has ever started here?
We would like to ask, why under the
favorable terms under which Hawai-
ian sugars have entered this country,
the State of California should not have
had an half-doZen refineries, and sup
ply the entire country as far as Chi
cago? II the answer be that ONE RE-
FINERY has sufficed TO perform the
necessary work, we will then follow up
the question by asking, in what man
ner do we now hope to employ a dozen
or more. unless the intention be that
such additional refneries shall confine
themselves to the manufacture of the
raw product only, and forward the
same for refining, under such terms
and conditions as may be dictated by
that ONE REFINERY. Or shall we be-
Iieve that ONE REFINERY, in its
fondness for the State of California,
and it's ambition for the NEW IN
DUSTRY,'' is prepared TO shut down,
and sacrifice it's plant, but recently i'm
proved. as soon as sufficient small re-
fineries have scattered themselves I'M
der its protecting aid throughout the
Pacific Coast, and point with pride, as
the last volume of smoke passes
through its massive chimney-'This is
the Trusts sacrifice to CALIFORNIA;
now life and ambition"
And whatever beet sugar may do in
the future. Hawaii might have done
in the past. had it been permitted, and
we would further ask what guarantee
we have that beet sugar will be per-
mitted to do in the future, what Ha-
waiian sugar has been denied in the
past.
Tt has been conceded in the article
published that the sugar trust has an