The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1898-02-26
OCEAN WAY STATION.
QUESTION OF FUTURE DoMI-
NATION ON THE PACIFIC.
sugar, Coffee aud wheat supple. Ana
Hired - Greater Population Me.ns
Greater Consumption - Sugar Trust
Antagoni,tIe to Hawaii.


lsan Francisco Letter.)
Sugar and coffee are. and ever will
De- the leading products Of the Ha-
waiian Islands The consumption Of
sugar In the United States Is IS pound
per capita Of our population. which q
equal 10 2.275.9OO short tons for pop
ulation Of 100000 OF people. The
Hawaiian Islands have never yet pro-
duced ZI5.OOO tons. and never will pro
duce more. n ever as much a. that.
This leaves 100000 tons TO be sup
piled for rs from other sources. ami
about l,7OO0 900 tons are now imported
from abroad II will be many. many
years before the American cane and
beet sugar interests can produce such
an enormous quantity. even II they
are ever able 10 do so. their total an
nsal production now being less than
100000 tons. What reason. therefore.
Is there 10 fear that the American
market can be- taken away from the
American sugar producers by the hand
nj OF sugar that Is grown on the Ha-
walian Islands. where there h. no more
land available for growing sugar.
Those who are creating an anti-annex-
alton sugar scare are allies OF the Su-
gar Trust, which now feels some effect
OF the Hawaiian sugar competition IN
New York, where there are lndeperi.
ent rchneries that have not yet sold
themselves 10 the greatest trade mon
opoly that 'he world has ever Wit
messed.
There Is no more danger that the
Hawaiian sugar product win ever lr-
crease over q 100000 ton output. or
that u win ever affect the American
grown sugar Interests already rrnlt-
90 than those Of IIawali-'hln Their. b.
that Santa Claus VIII ever Do deceased
at Christmas time. lu thirty. forty or
nifty years time wo might grow 400 1u-
own sugar. huf the probabilities af.
that even with the greatest cuc1ur
agemont we shall always De- dopplI-
ent upon some other countries Tor a
portion of our upply n We produce
OIL! the sugar we need hr growing .r-
gar hccts. wo shall have to imarr
wheat within half a century m mIi.
Ing these estimates 20 allgWlre. rrs
been made for thc increase OF our pJr-
llai.on during rho next INV yelr.
with ten million moro people We s5,.
need $4,000 tons more sugar than ga
no" consume. and the whole of Louie
lana will never produce as much g4
this. and it is iu Louisiana thar tho
anti-annCXltI0n fever spreads through
t.midIty, because the facts have mo-,
been studied We have 10 buy nov
from abroad and we shall always 5,ye
to dl so, or else buy wheat. WHY u1f
then. buy our sugar from American
who are growing b. in Hawaii rather
than from Germany France. Java. lr
elsewhere The Hawaiians are. 5y
FAR, the best customers In proportion
10 their population, that the United
States possesses. They buy two dol
lara worth Of our products whore En-.
ropoans buy but one dollars worth
from us. It is American money that
has developed Hawaii There w., gua
our own kInsmcn who are toIllng An
the tropics 10 order Co secure % return
from their investment Why desert
Americans simply because they live I'D
Hawaii, ana give 90 Europeans or
South Sea islanders the balance Of
our sugar market that Che Unr.l
States can Itself never supply. and
which our growing population will ale
ways prevent us from supplying
Outside Of the sugar lands of fla
wall. there are the mountain I4ud.
where sugar can not Doe grown. Those
are being developed by Americans and
hy American money into coffee plana-
lions. the labor and cultivation orpu.
pying nearly five years before any ra-
turn Is received from lhc investment.
APART from these two agricultural u-
dustries the Hawaiian lands grow
bananas. plueapplos. oranges. runns.
and maUgoos though there s good op-
portuniy for farm truck small fruits
and dalrying in the higher mountain
regions. which arc always cool lu
Ihn United States Wo consume about
ten pounds of coffee per capita luuu-
ally. or 7OoOooOuO pounds % yoar o.
The present time. Much OF this can
De grown in Hawaii. and n wo buy
both the coffee and sugar that arr
grown hy our brother Americans they
viii buy even more literally of oU
manufactures and farm products a.
viii bc Oar better f1r us to trade vI'h
our own people. even though they live
ln the tropics, then 80 would Doe 90 buy