The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-08-30


n EET sugar and cane sugar appear
X to be on the point of entering into
a struggle which may not exactly
be struggle for existence, but which
is likely to be very sharp. ON the Pa
cifc coast the indications of war be
tween Hawaiian cane and California
beet have been obvious for weeks. and
now there are the rumblings of HOSTILE
ties on this coast. The duty on Cuban
sugar may or may not be removed, but
what is of considerable Importance Is
that the duty on Porto Rcan sugar
has been removed and the importation
of sugar from that island has been rap
idly increasing without awaiting the
removal of the Is per cent. In the
meanwhile beet sugar manufacture has
been growing till 1t has begun to feel
that II must have more room. Addi-
| tional refineries are projected. There
are indications of increased efforts to
get European sugar into the country,
and there is discussion over the ques-
ton of .: w cheap bret sugar can be
produced. Undoubtedly sugar beets
can be raised for much less money
than has thus far been paid for them.
When farmers raise wheat and corn
for ten or twelve dollars an acre 1t Is
not absolutely necessary that they
should get "A clear profit of thirty or
forty dollars for raising beets. But it
Is insisted that with an equal applica-
ton of capital and science cane can BE-
raised more cheaply than beets. and in
cuba il is possible that that can be
done without all the capital and science
applied to beetS. In the meanwhile
there is every indication of sharp COM
petition in the marketing of refined SUI
gar.-New York Journal Of Commerce,
August 3.
DIR, MANWEl.LS REPORT
DIR. Maxwelrs report, compiled at the
request Of the Federal Premier. is now
available. II deals very voluminously
with the conditions of the sugar indus
try in New South Wales and Queens
land. In reviewing briefly the several
considerations set forth I'm the report DR..
Maxwell says, in concluding: 1T is
necessary to observe that ale the
economic factors may require that the
sugar producing interests OF Queensland
ana New South Wales shah hc individ-
ualy considered, and from the respec-
llN' 0AdbupplHlS Dl tnt TWO states. IN.
question of the cane-sugar industry of
Australia must be approached upon
broader lines and by the observance OF
laws which are laid down in the cond.-
tons of nature, in which conditions
economic laws must have their founda-
ton. In recognition Of those conditions
of nature, the vast and extended sugar
producing areas OF Australia are resolv-
ed into four several districtS-New South
Wales districts. and tho districts of
Bundaberg, Mackay, ...iG Cairns, which
districts are primarily distinguished by
divers climatic conditions which obtain
within them, The inquiry into and the
comparison of the rate of compensat ton
of white labor ana South Sea Island la
Dor In Queensland led to finding that
white labor engaged in the work in the
cane fields IL compensated at the rate of
II Is l0iad in the district OF Bundaberu
81 rs lid In Mackay, 81 los 4Iad in
Cairns, with an average for all districts
of Ct lis 0l2d per week, or 5s "a per
working day. The South Sea Islander
Is charged With a rate and cost amount
ing to lis Sd IL Bundaberg lbs al in
Mackay, ana ws lllad in Cairns making
"A general average of l3s 6d a week, or
- jd per working day. Connected with
asc.rtainIng the rates of compensation
it was attempted to determine the
relative coefficicnts of value of white
aud South Sea Island labor: and the CO.
cifcients of the powers of the different
races in the abstract that Is when each
is ut it's highest, are very various. The
Anglo Saxon has the highest labor power
in conditions most favorable for its eXer-
else The graduation in the co-eificients
OF other races is very various, and can
/ descend to an equivalent that is only
one-half or less than that of the labor
power of the Anglo-SaXon. The co-efii-
clients of the labor of the several races
In abstract are vitality qualified by the
conditions of nature in which the labor
has to be performed, and these qualih-
cations of labor-power have to be con
sidered in the determination of the value
of labor, which is found to depend upon
such as the following factors: Skill, en-
durance and stability in the performance
of labor. When white labor is consider
ed in relation 10 these factors it Is found
that its highest co-efiicient of value in
| Queensland obtains in the Bundaberg
district, that the co-efficient is notably
lower in Mackay, and that its value il
reduced to a minimum in the ultra trop-
zeal district of Cairns. When the South
| Sea Island labor Is subjected to the
qualification of the same factors its value