The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-04-19
CALIFORNIA AND HAWAII.

ma is playing uOg Ill the manager POI
icy. 1t cannot supply and connot hope
to supply for the next ten years at
least, the area now supplied by Ha-
waiian sugars. Meanwhile it desires
to at once kill out the cane sugar IL
dustry. Of what particular advantage
it will be to the State of California to
lose Hawaiian sugar and Hawaiian
trade at one fell swoop, a careful rea-
soner can hardly see.
The exports from the United States
to Hawaii consist of manufactured art
icles or such raw material as acquires
no manipulation here. The whole of
the profit, except the profit made by
the distributor or merchant, goes into
the pockets of the United States man
ufacturers What Hawaii sends TO the
United States, and that is practically
to California, is raw material. Every
pound of sugar sent from here goes
TO supply the refneries and thus gives
work and wages to vast army of
skilled mechanics and laborers, and
helps to pay the interest upon an
enormous amount of American capital.
1t is not only the American capital in
vested in the Hawaiian islands, but it
is the capital invested in California
that benefits by Hawaiian sugar.
When you import raw material you
can afford to have the apparent bal
ance of trade against you, for from
your raw material you can and do Gre
ate wealth and, in point of fact, there
is no balance of trade against you at
all.
Another claim is made by the beet
sugar party. I he trade with these
islands is made out to have done very
little for the retailers, the artizans,
the mechanics and farmers of Califor-
MIA" Of course the islands are small,
but, small as they are, during the year
1896 their imports. chilly from the Pa
-cific Coast, amounted to over $1,000
900. and during the last ten years to
$57,OOO,OOO. From these $57,000,000 the
retailers, the artzans, the mechanics
and the farmers of the Coast have
had a benefit and we doubt if any
100000 thousand of people on earth
have spent as much money upon the
Pacific Coast as the inhabitants of
these islands.
The farmer sends us his products,
his hay, his grain, his fruit his pigs,
h
chanic and artizan have worked upon
steamers and schooners for, our inter-
island and our deep sea trade. During
the year 1896, no less than PAT Ameri-
can ships were entered at the Hawaii
an ports, and of these 1875 were from
the Pacific Coast of the United States.
During the same period 26 Hawaiian
vessels entered and cleared. These may
be regarded as practically American
vessels, for they are chiefly owned by
American capital, and of the vessels of
other nationalties the great proper
ton of them were under American
charters.
To lose the Hawaiian trade, or to
cripple it would deal serious blow to
"A valuable portion of the shipping in
dustry OF the Port of San Francisco.
To cripple the islands would injure the
"retailer, mechanic, artizan and farm
err of California, and the merchants
of San Francisco understand the posi-
ton very we'll. 4 petition has gone
Ill, hn
Chamber of Commerce and from the
principal business people of San Fran
cisco and its vicinity urging the neces-
sity of closer union with the islands.
\ place with which last years volume
of trade was over twenty-five and a
half millions of dollars and whose vol
ume of trade for ten years past was
over one hundred and siXty-eight mil
lions of dollars, over ninety per cent of
which passed through the hands of
merchants and agents in San Fran
cisco, is place with which even from
a mercantile point of view it is of adj
vantage to have the very closest rela-
tions with. The effect of the petition
of the San Francisco merchants is be-
coming directly visible in the San
Francisco Press-for papers which
were luke-warm or distinctly hostile
have changed front and are strongly
advocating closer relations. The Argo-
naut has taken up the campaign
against us, but, as has been shown
above, its arguments are fallacious
and take the line of special pleading
for the beet sugar industry.
In the above argument only the COM
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