The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-03-25
(From the Argonaut.)

7
ten years ago? When you began eating
on a wholesale plan, and took charge
of the operations yourself, flour was
probably one Of the main articles of
your diet; it was used in all ways, hence
the chances for expansion have not been
like those with sugar, which was prac-
tically luxury not very many years
ago. We oldsters all remember very
distinctly what an occasion it was when
refined sugar got down to twenty pounds
for dollar We always had two bar
rels in our pantry-one of white, one OF
brown, and for ordinary purposes we
were obliged TO eat the brown, the
white being only for extra occasions and
special foods. That was twenty years
ago, when the annual per capita con-
sumption in the United States was fifty
one pounds (ISS4). Flour was an old,
old friend then; we had been accus-
toned to it for long time, had been
using it as the first of our foods; CON
sequently the opportunities for its
wider use are not many as compared
with sugar, which seemingly has now
reached a popular price that is causing
its broader use and it is reasonable that
it should. And yet it is not the element
OF low price today that will be response
Bile for the steadily increasing consump-
ton per CAPITA it is becoming a COM
mon food in an open receptacle at the
cooks right hand, as it were, and to
be used almost unconsciously. That is
WHY the per capita consumption will
continue 10 increase, even thouSn ilie
price snouid remain the same oaay
we are eating seVeiity-ohe POUNDS apiece
III year, Just tMellty Po,lilas more tliaii
IN 1904 increasing p9pulatiori mas noun
ing 10 90 WIN 'liat laG.' we are using
more sugar per iiluivldua az because IL
tastes tastes Sood ana we can ailo't " 40 So.
When we Dring the factor OF a greater
population INTO consideration, we must
drop 'he ihdiViuual ana look at tile gross
ideas:
otai sugar consumption
III " D. III 1901 ''.'..'' 993,o3S toiis
otal sugar consumption
- III y. ,. III 1901 '.... l'o72,4oo IONS
in II { in 1907 4, s7o 2I6 TONS
ms is tremendous increase; 1t eN-
plans ,he great eHorts MADE by the
national government TO develop domes-
nc industry, TO grow Our sugar at nome
instead OF importing most OF 1t, as we
nave been dong Even II the tonnage
renamed stationary, its amount and
cost would De suflciently great TO war
rant magnificent efforts to produce 1t on
the American farm, as we seem to have
made a good start to do. In 1000, out
OF every 1000 pounds OF sugar used IN
TINS country, SS7 were from foreign
sources. ~ were domestic cane, 80 were
domestic beet, and three were maple.
And 1t is adding insult to injury to OBJ
serve that OF those SS7 pounds OF for
.eign sugar 100 I-2 were IRON European
Deets grown by the small farmers OF
Germany, Austria, Holland, and France;
or, to be more explicit:
I6e 1-a pounds were from GERMANY
O pounds were from Belgium
Ia pounds we're from Austria-Hunp-
arv.
SIP mounds were from Holland
s1-o mounds were from France
II we expect to continue writing
dipionlallc notes lelilllS the resi- OF inc
world Just how China is to be treated
by everybody we certainly must be III
more independent positl IA ourselves
as regards one OF our most important
foods we are shipping Hour and meat
across the Pacific to keep Japan and
Russia alive and able to hight, and at
the same time our great ports are wide
open, drawing sugar from the peasantry
OF Europe and tropical coolies what
good does 1t do the American farmer
to grow meat and wheat to iced the tor
eigners, and then draw on those iden-
tlcal returns to ray Tor sugar from the
ends OF the world-from places that ne
prooaply mas never even heard ot-iike
belze' Suriham' ana otherS1 Inc
PLANTER IN wagon Egypt, or feru; or
Brazil, opens can OF chicago beef
m'."?u' oe'as u' f necause us su.
hasn't he '.oumntion" IN nroduce