The San Francisco call., 1898-01-26
COOLIE COMPETITION IN REFINED
 SUGARS.

C ONE one asks why refined sugar does not come
 from Hawaii, and it has been said that D beet sugars refined, the sugar from the islands does not compete.
 The reason that Hawaiian sugar does not come here refined is because it would then have to pay tariff of $3o per ton, while it comes in free
 It is mistake, however, to say that because the island sugar comes it does not compete with our beet product. The beet itself is the raw material of beet sugar, and the island cane plantations operated with serve coolie labor, compete directly with the beet farms of California operated by white labor at white wages. The island output of sugar is about six times great the beet sugar output of the whole United States. This shows plainly that beet sugar production IS in its infancy and that its growth IS tarded by the free entry into market of six times its volume of alien sugar grown by coole labor
 But this is all Ii the islands are annexed their refined sugars will also come into market free and the cheap labor which dsastrously com petes in the production of raw sugar will then be turned to competition in refined sugar aso and not only beet sugar farmers and their labor but tee sugar reners and their labor will feel the double competition most disastrously.
 Thousands of people already employed in re-
 nng in the beet sugar plants of this State and thou sands more in the fields which raise the beets. An Hawaii and give her refined sugar the same free entry to markets enjoyed by the sugar and shadow will fall upon every community frightened by the hopes invested in the sugar beets of California and other States.
 Do the beet farmers and the labor employed in re- fning beet sugar in Nebraska and Iowa expect that they provide against the austerities of their climate and furnish themselves with food and shelter while competing in the profits and wages with Asatic coolies in tropical Hawaii? The demands of their dict alone greater than the requirements of the Hawaiian coolie in food clothing and housing. In- deed it is probably true that cooe in the islands will feed himself for year for what our American farmer laborer in a sugar refinery has to spend for school books for his children
 Mr. Holman, in a recent issue of the Pacific Rural Press, speaks of the favorable effect upon community life of the beet sugar industry wherever it has been domesticated in California. The farmers have ad- vanced in agricultural skill and grown in thrift The whole community has been raised and its every ex- pression of comfort and refinement emphasized Con- trast this with the effect upon community life in Hawaii by increase in the sugar industry, where the civilization and gentleness of the native race have been displaced by the barbarism of Asiatic cooie life and the community morality and refinement have been overgrown.
 | If we take Hawaii take all this into system to compete with the American foundation of the beet sugar industry which is upon lines that tighten and make life better.
 The proposition is intolerable, and its calm con- sideration by our people its crushing defeat under the weight Of public opinion.