Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-06-29
this fall that the outlook is better than
ever for lonesome campaign.
SOME SUGAR MYSTERIES.
New York Commercial

New York Commercial
In view of the well-authenticated re-
ports of the recent extensive entry of
the American Sugar Refining Company.
or representatives of II, into the beet
sugar industry of this country. It is in
teresting to recall some statements
made by Henry o. Havemeyer on this
matter of beet sugar holdings at pc
riod not SO very remote.
About three years ago-to be exact,
on June IA. lS99--he appeared by invita-
ton before the United States Indus
trial Commission at Washington and
read a long. carefully prepared and
rather elaborate statement on indus
trial combinations" and at its conclu-
sion he was questioned at length by
members of the commission on great
variety of matters bearing directly or
indirectly on the sugar industry. 1t
was at that hearing that MIR. Havemcy-
or startled his hearers and the country
not little by him now historic dccla-
ration that the mother Of all the
trusts is the customs tariff law"
Are you interested in the beet sugar
industry, Mr. HnvemCyer?" asked Mr..
Commissioner Kennedy.
Somewhat. on the Pacific slope"
answered the President of the Ameri
can Sugar Refining Company, the So
called Sugar Trust; none east of the
Rocky Mountains. however"
do you believe the time will come
when the beet sugar industry will fur
nish this country with all the sugar ii
will consume?"
"ff the people of the United States.
! answered Mr.. Havemeyer rather de.
| liberately and with much earnestness
and emphasis. consent to the continu-
ance of burden of $40 a ton on i'm
ported sugar, suppose that one of
these days. the beet sugar industry will
furnish the United States with all the
sugar 1t reQuires-provided, however.
that Cuba. Porto Rico and the Philip
pines are not annexed, or their products
imported free of duty. Those countries
could easily within the next three years
supply the United States with all the
sugar II requires irrespective of the
supply from the Hawaiian Islands and
Louisiana"
THAT is. cane sugar" suggested
Commissioner Phillips. Cane sugar, of
course" assentcd Havemeyer
IF that Is done" continued Commits
sionCr Kcnnedy-that U.s. let in Porto
Rico, Philippines and Cuban sugars
free-"then the beet sugar industry
will have to be suppressed, will IT."
1T will be relegated to where II
properly belongs" replied Mr.. Have
meyer not without some manifesto.
ton of feeling. "in competition with
the cane! ] suppose that. II they were
to attempt to grow beet sugar in Alas
ka. they would ask for $3.50 ton pro.
tectior-and | don't see why they
shouldn't get it the same as they do in
Louisiana. where the natural condition
Of the cane is above the frost line"
Well, those tentative three years arc
up" now. Porto Rico's inConsiderabli
sugar export to this country still pays
duty; so does that from the Philip
pines so does that from unanneXed
and now Independent Cuba. We haven't
let down the sugar tariff bars-or only
just a little bit. We are still affording
adequate protection to Louisiana cane
and to the beet sugar of dozen or Sc
States of the Union. The people of the
United States are still "consenting tC
the burden" as Mr.. Havemeyer was
, pleased to denominate ii. We note an
, explanation of his reputed sally into
, the beet sugar field by the purchase
OF 81 100000 or so of interests in that
; industry on the ground that 1t is 1
political move"-an effort to buy
up" some beet sugar influence in orde
to the more easily secure certain legis
lation that he is said to be anxious
to get. That may be-possibly.
: But there may be another reason
1 Can IL be that Brother Huvemeyer i
4 hedging? Is he hustling to get into
r an industry that is ere long to suppl.
| tho United States with all the sugar /
- needs without importing a pound?