The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1898-11-11
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"Tobacco Oul'nrs. says the Times.
Union, ia on. Vt the most pron bic
and promisinF industries ~ ~ r.da.
Perhaps Ne might bauer have said I
Il the most profitable oi the indu siries
u the state. and most promising Of Ia
ture development n would nnaues-
/ tionahly be Injured by the adm ssion
l of Cuba 10 the Union. aud ne develop
ment, N no, checked would be y 81
/ p0nei. Don't fear, contemporary.
! Tobacco o. largely cultivated In Ohio,
Pennsylvania and New England N
/ Cuba is admitted some plan will be
found To- protect a product IN which
tAoss states are Interested some OF
/ ,heir representatives are already Dis
! Cussing constitutional Amendment
to that end. Charleston News and
, Courier.
The cigar and chero0t tobacco trade
| will not only be interfered with by
Cubs and Porto Rico but more largely
| and dangerously by the Philippines.
/ These last named islands also make a
good quality OF tobacco which they
manufacture into cigarettes "--Tobac-
| co
! The number OF cultivators OF the
tobaco plant In the States II very large
and they have a powerful influence In
politics. Several years ago. when the
Sumatra leaf" now raised In the
Philippines came into the market. and
seriously injured the sale OF the home
raised wrappers" the tobacco interest
demanded protection from Congress.
and the enormous duty OF $500 per
pound was placed upon Il. II was
claimed by the home growers that UNI
less this was done the entire trade
would be crippled
The sugar product is precisely in the
same situation. The tobacco and sugar
interests will now unite forces. and
insist on protection" against the pos
sible dangers of expansion. When war
against Spain was threatened. these
interests were aware OF their liability
10 injury in the annexation of Cuba.
lThey could not, however, at the time.
make any resistance 10 the movement
OF the people As the war Is, probably,
OF an end. and the acquisition of the
new territory is certain, they are now
taking alarm AT the coming danger,
and will make common fight. They
can and will make a strong one.
An amendment to the Constitution,
providing for the protection to one
part of the territory against another
part, is not practicable. \ majority
lof the States would not adopt II.
THAT will cut OF the newly acquired
Territory from the general advantages
|of protection, Is an open question. The
probabilities are that such laws can
not be passed.
While expansion may, on the one
hand, increase foreign trade, It may on
the other hand injure home industries.
II viii be a curious outcome of the new
movement, If the free born enlighten-
cd citizen Of the States should be re-
duced to want, and the ignorant Gu
bans and Filipinos become prosperous
and rich.
President Mckinley in his speeches
made during his recent trip to the in
terror, hints at some of these coming
questions, While the people are with
unjust Indignation shouting down
with the Spaniards," and hold the
Philippines" the President is alive to
the fact that the sugar beet industry,
and the tobacco industry, are in great
danger. He knows well. that as soon
as the excitement subsidies, the tobacco
and sugar men will appear with solid
front, and will besiege Congress for
protection.
So far as Hawaii is concerned, We
hold to the opinion that her sugar in
terests will not be affected, unless Con-
gress, at the dictation OF the farmers
shall consider the sugar interests here
Ito be tainted with the cheap Asiatic
labor. On the other hand, as II was
said in these columns several days ago,
II the F'ilipinos are brought under
American protection, the labor cues
ton for these Islands may be solved.
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