Evening star., 1898-06-15
a PAINFUL POSITION
4 PAINFUL POSITION PROTECT OUR COAST
Mr. Onards Statement About Beet Reason for the Acquisition Of
Sugar Refuted by Figures. Hawaii.
That STRUGGLE INFANT INDUSTRY HOSTILE PACIFIC FLEETS HARMLESS
Will Not at All Be Injured by Arguments Of Messrs Hamilton
Hawaiian Annexation. Hiborn
Mr.. Oxnard's Statement About Beet
Sugar Refuted by Figures.
THAT STRUGGLE. G INFANT INDUSTRY
Viii Not at All Be Injured by
Hawaiian Annexation.
MUST TRY a NEW TUNE

In spite of the devious ways and subter-
rane1n methods of the Sugar Trust and of
the frantic denials by Mr.. Henry Oxnard
that he represents the Sugar Trusts inter
ests in his anti-Hawaiian annexation oper-
ations the evidence continues to multiply
that the Sugar Trust is opposing annexa-
ton and that Henry Oxnard is its agent,
until the proofs amount to demonstration.
The ways and means and combinations
by which the Sugar Trust accomplishes its
rds constitute national prize puzzle; but
On Saturday last The Star Topped off a few
branches from the Sugar Trust family tree
and hung tham the fence for public in
spection- This inspection showed Robert
and Henry Oxnard Incorporating their
Brooklyn refinery with those of Havemeyer
and Searles and taking Sugar Trust certifi-
Gates in payment therefor; it shows the
two brothers journeying to the Pacific coast
and there engaging with Havemeyer and
Searles in the beet sugar business; 1t shows
Robert, as the manager of the trusts Pa
citic coast interests, locking horns with
Spreckels. forcing him into the trust, and
securing for Havemeyer and SearleS d half
interest in Spreckels' beet sugar factories
We'll in his refinery; il shows Spreck-
els investment in the San Francisco Call
medium for lighting Hawaiian annexa-
ton; 1t shows Henry OXnard, in cOllabOra-
tion with Spreckels. Offering a premium of
80 cents ton en- beets in California if an
nexation defeated and trying bull
doze the beet farmers of Nebraska into
taking 80 cents q ton less for their bee tS II
il was successful, with manifest intent to
stir up fictitious hostility to annexation.
Yesterday the Star showed that although
the Sugar Trust declares that it has no in
tereSt one way or the other in annexation
ard Oxnard daily reiterates that the Sugar
Trust is supporting annexation, that in
fact and in truth the trust will lose ap-
proximately $3.VOO,OO0 per annum if annex
alton takes place.
What Statistics Show.
And now again comes unkind fate in the
shape of Representative Edward l.. Ham,
ilton. and the floor of Congress holds
Mr.. Henry Oxnard and his fiimsy protesta-
ton that he is here working against the
Sugar Trust and for the protection of the
beet sugar industry up to the cruel gaze
OF the public by demonstrating that there
Is no possibility of Hawaiian annexation
inJuring the beet sugar industry in the re-
mOteSt degree.
He demonstrates mercilessly through the
cold medium of United States official records
that the country is now importing nearly
2~DOcO tons per annum from countries
other than Hawaii, and that the consump-
uon of sugar in this country is increasing
at the rate of II per cent per annum; tina;
1t would take Joj beet sugar factories each
capable OF producing $3.50 tons of sugar
per annum and costing s177Ou0OOO to pro-
duce the sugar which now has To be i'm
ported from countries other than Hawaii;
mat during the next ten years 1t will 40
additional factories of like capacity at a
cost OF l4i,OvO,C1O to supply the annual in
crease in consumption alone
AS the total number of beet sugar fac
tories in the country producing sugar dur
Ing 1897 only numbered seven and if has
taken ~ years to secure this ntimber II
Is manifest that whatever may happen in
the dim aEG misty future, during Mr. OK
hEra will hl
Ihe American market with domestic sugar
1heTe is practically an unlimited market
IN the Jnlted States for all the Hawaiian
sugar crop amounting to paltry 2,Uugl
tens per annUm, and all that can be pro-
Cuced by american beet sugar factories
LOT generation to come. Until that mar
hel Is supplied there can be no injurious
competition between Hawaiian sugar and
American beet sugar.
Mr. OAnnrd's Absurd Positton
This expose leaves Mr.. Henry Oxnara in
ridiculOusly absurd and painfu1 nositio,
For the last eighteen months he has been
rushing around the country from San
rahclSco TO New York, taking his meals
at th- congressional restaurants and but
toh-hoIihS every senator and representative
whom he could induce to listen to him.
an IN the interest of a struggling infant
industry. which was about to be stranglad
ana starved 10 death by the Hawaiian ogre.
ana now IL turns out that instead of there.
being any danger of the infant stary1n.
10 death there is pap enough in sight for a
regiment of infants for the Lext tWenry-
hNe years These official statistics demon
strate with the clearness of "a geometri-
cal problem that Hawaiian annexation does
not and cannot injure the beet sugar inuus-
Try MIR. Oxnard will have to tune up his
narp and warb!e different melody than
the woes OF the beet sugar industry which
Is now enjoying the protection or an 81
per cent al valorem tariff, II he wishes TO
serve out the balance of the term of his
engagement for the congressional opera
season His present instrument is a whole
octave out OF tune. and the hymn which
he hymns is stale as Annie Rooney
anu w ait Till the Clouds Roll By"
Messrs- Havemeyer Searles and Spreck
els are advised, without prejudice" that
as speculation for profit Henry Oxnard
posing as beet farmer for the befuddIe-
nent OF Congress is dead failure