The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-07-29

If the Coast re1neries handle the regu-
lar amount of cane sugar-and they pre-
sumabIy have their usual stocks of raw
under contract-the output, added to the
beet-sugar product, will evidently be
more than the ordinary consumption of
the western empire of the sugar trust.
But it must be consumed here or there
will be war. If our surplus sugar crosses
the dead line 1t will find trouble wait
ing for it, 1t is quite possible that the
western end of the trust is held respon-
sible that all sugar-makers In its BALI
wick shall stay on the reservation. That
would be quite reasonable, at any rate.
If this be true, or If there is an eQuiva-
lent arrangement, a Coast outlet must be
found for all Coast sugar. Obviously the
way to increase sales is to reduce prices.
There is no other known reason sufficient
to account for the drop, and yet we know
that the price would not have been re-
duced had it not been supposed IN
aYoidable-Chronicie.
TOO MUCH SUGAR
The Grocer, which is doubtless author
ity in matters appertaining to its line.
estimates the beet-sugar crop of the
State at 100000 tons. This would nearly
or quite supply the demand for the sec
ton of the Coast controlled by the West
Refining Company is also exposed to the
competition from the Hawaiian Islands,
from which point an amount about equal
to the beet-sugar product Is expected
There is apparently a considerable sur
plus of sugar which might be shipped
east Of the Utah dividing line, but for
the fact that the freight rates would
somewhat more than consume the profits
of production. The two reffneries which
are supposed to control the American
market have sugar enough of their own.
and, consequently, leave the Independent
refinerieS to find a market for their
product. The Grocer said some days
before the recent slump in sugar was re-
corded: The outside factories will have
one of two alternatives: that of seeking
new outlets in a wider field or of dispos-
ing of sugar in the raw state to the two
reffnerieS.''
These new outlets lie east of the Utah
line and west of the Missouri river. In
that field and further east the Pacific
Coast independent refiners would have
to contend against the American Sugar
Refining Company and the product of
local factories in the same territory.
Possibly the Independent factories on this
Coast would find open condition on the
western part of the coast more prom
| ising of satisfactory results than COM
petition in the Eastern market with d
| freight rate of so per ton to be added
to the ordinary cost of production. -
| The menace to our local sugar growers
arises from the free admission of Ha-
waiian sugar which is the product OF
cheap labor. The same menace hangs
over the sugar-beet growers of the East,
Cane sugar can be produced in suitable
localities more eheaply than beet sugar
under possible conditions. Cane sugar Is
the product of cheap labor. while beet
sugar, the product of temperate zones,
where the white standard of wages Is
| maintained, Is cultivated at a cost which
| can only be afforded by Government aid
All foreign sugar except that from Ha-
vail and Porto Rico is subject to a "a
per cent duty. Foreign sugar on which
| an export bounty is paid is required to
pay ceuntervailing duty equal to the
, export bounty. The imports of sugar
! from Porto Rico will have little effect
upon the large Eastern market, but a
| 100, 000-ton import from Hawaii into our
smaller market is a more serious mat
| ter.-San Francisco Bulletin. -