Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1898-08-24
new SUGAR COUNTRIES
Effect OF Their Annexation on the
American Market.
Expert Says Danger is From Bounty Fed
European BeetS-What Cuba and
Other Islands Produce.

The Planters Monthly for Aug
ust says: Henry A. Brown, an ex
cellent authority on sugar matters
speaking of the effect of an occu-
patton of Cuba, Porto Rico and
Philippine Islands, all cane sugar
producing countries, states that in
the year ended June 30, 1894, Gu
ba and Porto Rico send us 9S3, Ala
tons of sugar, or above the average
annual quantity exported to US.
In the fiscal year 1897, we receiv-
ed $4,000 tons of sugar from Gu
ba and Porto Rico.
We had of sugar from the Phi
lippines in the year ended June
30, 1890, 64,776 tons of sugar, her
largest shipment to us. Last year
only $4,000 tons of sugar came
here from these islands.
Hawaii sent us In the year end
ing June 30, 1897, 1872, SAT tons of
sugar.
Taking the highest figures of
sugar for one year, as above, we
received from all the countries
named a total of 1,240,7O7 tons of
sugar, while Germany sent us in
the last fiscal gear named 711,756
tons OF beet sugar, and other
European countries added to it
l98, 1923 tons, in all 9l0,805 tons of
beet sugar from Europe, and the
quantity of beet sugar exports to
this country annually increases,
while the quantity of cane sugar
rapidly decreases, a condition
more dangerous to our producers
than exists elsewhere.
England takes most of the pro-
duct of the Philippines, her i'm.
ports from tt ence being in 1885,
345,69l tons of sugar, against 64,-
766 tons of sugar sent to US in that
year from the Philippine islands.
Leaving out Cuba there remains
the small quantity of sugar likely
to reach US from the Philippines,
not to exceed an average of co.
600 tons per annum, and an aver.
age of not more than 100000 tons
of sugar from Hawaii, in all some
100000 tons of sugar per annum
from countries in the Pacific coast
affecting as as against over 900,
600 tons of beet sugar with which
we were loaded last year.
1t is true that the Philippine
islands produce about 100000
tons of sugar per annum at their
best. So much the better for as
if we retain the islands, as Eng
land will gladly buy four tifths or
all of it; in fact, the scare is prac-
tically reduced to Hawaiian sugars
of which the production is limited,
and not likely to exceed it's pre-
sent production to any material
extent, while our capacity for pro
ducing beet sugar is equal to the
present production of Europe to
say the least.
American sugar producers are
borrowing trouble, only to per
ceive or imagine impending ruin
to our sugar industries, which
there is no reason to apprehend
under existing conditions likely to
come about. The fact is, this
country consumed in the year
ended June 30, 1897, 1887, 1887
tons of imported sugar and $780,
356 tons of domestic sugar, Ia total
of 2,7l7, 593 tons, or 6,097, 4l8,3SS
pounds, 1915 per capita. Home
producers have ability, capital,
energy and skill enough to get a
lions share of this vast sugar pro
ducing industry, and need not fear
either Hawaiian or Philippine isl.
ands as competitors, but should
beware of the floods of European
bounty fed beet sugars that are
rushed to this country far more to
their hurt.