The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-11-10
Cuban Free Sugar Will Be Costly
to the States.
DUTY SOON TO Be DROPPED
Views of a Firm in Hamburg Cuba
and the Trust-Louisiana Men
to Suffer.

The fact that the close relations
which viii exist in future between
Cuba and the United States Will have
a marked effect upon the production OF
sugar throughout the world, is keen
ly appreciated on the European Con-
tinent, as indicated by reports which
are reaching the State Department II
is evidently feared that the policy al
ready enforced by the United States,
in shutting out beet-root sugar by tar
if legislation, will be given a firmer
basis in the future by the immense
supply of cane sugar which Will be
available from Cuba and Porto Rico
An important Hamburg firm (Alex-
ander John & Coz issued a circular
in August which is attracting much at
tentiOn in economic and business cir
cles on the continent This statement
makes the following review of the sit
uation from the standpoint of the in
terests of the bounty-paying coun-
tries:
Whether the island is officially an
neXed or not is unimportant as 10 the
economic relations. The first act which
Mckinley executed after the surrender
erican customs tariff. From this it
follows that later, with the conclusion
of peace, the same will be applied to
the whole island. The logical conse-
quence of the application of the Am
o,iY.a ta riff iC bn inn y
of Cuban products into the United
States. SO then the American manu-
facturers and Sugar Trust have their
will, and the advantages which will
result will soon cover the cost which
the filibuStering equipment and war
batting is supposed to have cost them.
Havemeyer, the head of the American
Sugar Trust, possesses already extern
sive estates in Cuba, and, as through
the instruction and the war, the need
Of money has not grown less in Cuba,
it will not be difficult to acquire still
further greater possessions there.
America has a demand for sugar of
two millions of tons, of which Louis
lana supplies 200, 900 tons, while 10000o
tons come from beet, sorghum, maple
and other domestic sugar productions.
Before the last revolution, the Cuban
sugar production amounted to over
one million tons. In well-infcrmed
American sugar circles they are con-
WINGED that Cuba will cover the entire
sugar demand for America in the
course of two or three years. This
means for the American nation in the
first place the yearly deficiency Of a
round $45, 100000, which the duty on
imported sugar has hitherto produced.
1T means at the same time the destruc-
ton of the sugar production of Louis
lana, which cannot exist without the
protection of the duty. The sugar
cane can stand no frost; in Cuba there
| is no frost, but in Louisiana the sugar
cane is visited with frost from time
| to time. We calculate Louisiana
| sugar to be worth only $50 a ton, SC
| that the omission of the Louisiana
| production represents a yearly loss OF
| 0,000, 900. First of all the planters
| of Cuba and the Sugar Trust viii
make a booming business. Both, s.
| far as they have not already formed {
personal union, will share among them
| selves the profit which will arise wheI
the Cuban sugar has no duty to pay
| and is made cheaper for America thar
| the sugar of other countries. In ad
dition to this, cane sugar is worth al
ready one mark more than beet sugar
I'm the measure in which Cuba sup
plies the demand for America, Americ.
| ceases to be a customer of other cant
sugar and beet sugar. OF the last i
has imported 100000 tons; the rest o
| the import was cane sugar. When Am
erica ceases to be a buyer of cant
sugar, the English market. which ha
hitherto been the chief customer 10
| beet sugar. remains for cane sugar
| England has during the last year con
sumed over 100000 tons of sugar, o
which about 100000 came from Cub,
and Porto Rico. As far as Americ,
ceases to be a customer, the who'll
English sugar demand can be supplies
with cane sugar. Then Europe sit
with her export premiums, and cal
realize nothing from them. 1t is ex
Qected already that by the next har
vest the changed circumstances o
Cuba will count for much, as sufficien
cane sugar stands in the field to suppl,
SOC. 900 tons. about double as much a
last harvest supplied