The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-11-22
THE UNITED STATES AND RUSSIA
BEET SUGAR rs PRODUCED IN
TWELVE STATES; CANE ST.
GAR IN THREE.
This Product Has Been Mixed Up in
Politics Since NspoIeon's Time
Down to the Time of the Sugar
Trust Of the Present Day.

WASHINGTON, Nov. s.-The Balti
more Sun this morning prints the fol-
lowing editorial on the sugar prob
lem:
Senator Lodge asserted recently in
a magazine article that IL We assure
a market to Cuba for sugar We shall
solve the Cuban problem. The next
session of Congress- added the Mas
sachuetts Senator. ought not TO pass
Eastern States. The Chicago Inter
Ocean. which is a Republican news
paper of the most orthodox type. is
as pronounced an advocate of eonces-
sions to Cuba as the Massachusetts
rary would also admit WesterncmtT
Senator. Our Western contemporary
would also admit Cuban sugar TO the
markets of the United States on more
favorable terms, despite the opposi-
ton Of the beet and cane sugar inter
ests of the country. Undoubtedly
these interests will exert all the in
luence at their command to prevent
Congress from granting concessions
TO the sugar planters of Cuba Ha
waiian sugar is now admitted free of
duty. as is also the sugar OF Porto
L
sugar would be regarded as calam-
ity by our domestic sugar interests
That il would be viewed in the same
light by American consumers is
doubtful
I'm the current number of the Fo-
rum there is an interesting article
by Mr.. Charles A. Champion on "Su-
gar and Our New Colonies. Mr..
Champion directs attention to the re-
markable prominence which ques
lions relating 10 sugar now occupy
throughout the world. The promi-
nence of sugar as factor in national
and international politics is not OF re-
cent origin. This food product. as the
author of the Forum article observes,
has been mixed up with politics
| from the days of Napoleon down to
the time of the Sugar Trust. And
| a question OF sugar bounty has re-
Gently involved the United States
and Russia in a sugar tariff war on a
small scale Great BIitain's late de-
parture from the free trade policy
| was marked by the imposition of a
duty on imported sugar. The strug-
gle over the Porto Rican tariff, which
nearly caused a split in the Republi-
can party. was due TO the influence
exerted by our domestic sugar inter
! ests on Congress. Cuba's best protec-
| ton against annexation is the enor-
nous sugar production of the island.
It is true the sugar product of the
/ United States is utterly inadequate TO
supply the needs of American con-
sumers. We can use all that is made
/ - nj IN oHdfffnn
nearly three times as much as is pro-
| duced by Cuba, Porto Rico and Ha-
wall combined But American sugar
prodlcers insist that they will be
ruined if Cuba is annexed or If the
duty on Cuban sugar were reduced.
AS long as this spirit prevails there
will be no political union between the
United States and Cuba, nor is there
any probability that the Cuban sugar
planters will get substantial reduc-
ton in the duty on their sugar.
The United States now imports 3
0O0.000 tons OF sugar year. The Sec
rotary OF Agriculture, in a recent in
| terview. declared that in few years
| our beet sugar producers will be able
| to supply all the sugar consumed by
/ the people of this country The sta
tisties prepared by the agricultural dl-
vision of the twelfth census show that
/ the beet sugar production of the
| United States during the last season
was II .427 tons, or about one-thirtieth
of the quantity required for domestic
| consumption. Il win be many years
before enough beet sugar will be
made in this country to render Us in
| dependent Of foreign-grown sugar.
Europe is far ahead of the United
States in beet-sugar production. Ger
MANY alone makes 100000 tons a
wear. while Austria and France each
produce over 1000 900 tons. Even
Spain has outstripped US IN makins
sugar from beets- Cuba viii probably
make 100000 tons of cane sugar next
season. while il is estimated that IN
a few years the island will produce
| 1 600. 00e tons annually. Mr. Champion
| admits that the entire ahrogation oil
| the duty on Cuban sugar would be dis
astrous to American producers A re
duction Of 80 1-3 per cent of the pres
ent duty. he argues. would not be in
| iurious either to American sugar IN
ferssts or 70 those of Porto Rico and
| Hawaii IL the United States bought
every pound Of sugar made in CUBA
the domestic industry would still have
market for more than l-eoo'vos
tons. several times more than we pro
duce. .u.
~The sugar interests are steadily
growing more powerful politically. q:
the beet sugar industry is EXTENDED
throughout the country. Beet sugar
Is now produced in twelve States
while cane sugar IS grown IN TIRES
others. Louisiana. however. produces
practically all the cane sugar IN tn'
United States. while onehah CT IN
beet sugar product IS grown IN csl'
fornsa. Possibly the beet sugar ma
try has q great future before y gu
its development viii necessariiF 3
slow. II win take hundreds Of mil
lions Of dollars of capital 70 build ths
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