Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-01-20

sidering the strenuous opposition that
the beet sugar interest is making
against trade reciprocity in any form
with cane sugar growing countries,
and particularly any form of trade reci-
procity with the soon-to- be-created
Cuban republic.
Messrs. Cutting and Oxnard affirmed
in this statement that the views there
in expressed represented the results of
ten years of experience. They had
learned a great deal in that time. and
had also been compelled TO discard
much that they had previously assum-
ed. 1t had been an uphill task to in
trOduce new manufacturing industry
of great magnitude into this country,
and II had been difficult to convince the
farmers that II was to their interest TO
sustain this industry. In certain places,
notably in Nebraska. encouragement
that had been offered to the manufaC-
turcrs by the State government was
repudiated when the Populists came
into power. But the result of these
ten years had been to convince Messrs
was quite as profitable us they had as
sumed that II would be. They insisted
that the outlook for the future was an
encouraging one. The product manu-.
featured was one of universal con-
sumption and of ready sale; it was
turned out in form ready for con-
sumption. while. as the United States
was compelled to import three-quarters
of the sugar II consumed, and as II
would take 300 factories of a daily ca
paCity of 500 tons each to produce tho
equivalent of importations. competition
by home production which would re-
duce prices was not to be anticipated
for many years to come
As to tropical competition-that Is
the competition of cane sugar-MessrS.
Cutting and OXnard said that Porto
Rico was too small to cut any figure,
and the Philippine islands did not pos
sess, and could not readily obtain. the
necessary elements for an expansion OF
the sugar business. The island of Gu
ba. II was added was so situated that
| its sugar industry could rapidly recover
| lost ground. provided the labor ques
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