The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-01-28

great improvements that have been
made in the manufacture OF beet sugar.
Also bear in mind the fact that plans
are now preparing, or are matured. for
| the construction of seventy new fac
| tories in various parts of the United
States. and that should Congress aim
a serious blow at the beet sugar indus
try, through adverse legislation, the
construction of these factories would.
in most cases. be abandoned or indefi-
| nitely postponed.
Again we say, If there rests upon our
shoulders any moral obligation TO as
sist the people of Cuba, for whom this
country has already expended such a
great amount of money and some
blood, then in the name OF common
sense, let US do it in a business-Iike
way, by extending to them either a
loan or cash donation, taken out of
the treasury of the country, not by en-
| acting legislation that would on the
one hand further enrich a grasping
American trust, and on the other deal
a serious blow at one of the most i'm
portant and promising OF American in
dustries.
AS TO~CUBA
WASHINGTON. Jan. S.-The vexed
question OF concessions to Cuba Is In a
fair way for settlement by mutual
agreement of the interested parties. The
cane and the beet interests have prac-
tically decided to adjust their differences
automatically rather than permit them
to come to IL legislative battle in which
the adherentS OF both sides might be in
some danger politically.
The beet people realize that they must
grant something, since complete obStruc-
ton, even if they had the power to make
| IL, would mean Cuban annexation and so
kill their goose.
| The cane people, on the other hand,
dread the prostrating effect Of delay and
! the enormous dangers of financial pan
/ &c in Cuba just as the new government
| Is beginning it's work. They accordingly
are willing to accept as compromise
something less than they think they de-
serve In order to bridge over the present
exigency.
The compromise Qi7n a-d a canvass on
both sides indicate Lax n spite of some
bitter circumstances it win be success
ful 1t is substantially this:
| 1t is proposed to allow a drawback for
the calendar year of 1902 on all molasses
and raw sugar up to No. 16 Dutch stand
ard, imported from Cuba and the growth
of that island to the United States, of
so per cent of the existing duties on
those articles. This drawback would be
paid to Cuban plantation owners on such
of their products as found market here.
| Other Cuban products during the same
period are to come in at duties of per
cent of existing rates, the remission to
be direct instead of by drawback.
| In return for this concession to Cuba
the president Is directed to publish a
! temporary tariff law for Cuba, granting
preferential rates TO United States prod
ucts. The understanding would be that
( If the independent government Is fully
established Cuba would of its own mo-
ton continue the same rates.
( This is the general plan, although the
rate Is subject to modification. most OF
the beet sugar people thinking 1t too
high, but willing to yield to the principle
involved. Their great victory would be
in getting a drawback instead of boun-
/ ty Or direct tariff remission and IN Sc
curing a one-year's limitation.
| The bounty project, considered a few
weeks ago. threatened to prove unpop-
ular, the very word having unattract-
! i've sound. The beet people did not want
any direct tariff remission because IL
! the public saw that the tariff edlffce
could be tempered with they might lose
faith in the sacred character of the ex-
listing sugar schedules. The beet people
regard 1t as highly important to MAIN
tain existing rates and to have the draw
back concession itself expire In a year,
unless there IS newly Affirmative legisla-
ton. These are considerations that make
the compromise attractive to them It's
direct advantage to the other side IS i'm
mediate and self-evident
/ PROTEST OF SUGAR GROWERS.
/ NEW ORLEANS, La, Jan. 9.-For the
first time in a decade all the sugar in
terests of Louisiana, democrats. republic
cans and populists, representing an In
dustry worth s19,O0OOO0, held a mass
meeting in the Grand opera house today
and entered vigorous protest to Con-
gress and President Roosevelt against
the proposed reciprocity In sugar. They
have Joined hands with the western beet
sugar interests in the fight.
1t was a remarkable gathering for mis-
! city. Party lines were thrown to tne
| four winds General w. j. Behan or
Ibery!Ile presided. Jared 7. Sanders.
speaker of the Louisiana House OF rep
resentatfves, and law partner of United
States Senator Murphy j. Foster, an Old
line democrat, was a leading speaker.
Other speakers were Captain John N
Pbarr. late republican candidate for gov
ernor; congressman Theodore s. VII
kinson. Judge Taylor Beattfe, Judge
Walter Guion. attorney general OF the
State, and others.
( Following is the protest adopted:
The United States has spent $4,000, 900
in money and sacrificed the lives or
thousands through battle and disease 10
give Cuba freedom, for which she was
fighting hopelessly in 1898.
Cuba Is now asking that further sacrf-
fees be made in her behalf. We are