The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-02-25
TO FIGHT
THE TRUST.
McCandIess Wants
RefineryOwned
Here.
Shows How Planters
Are Losing Money
by Agreement.
Senator Would Establish Refinery
in the East and Fight
for Market.

Il cannot see why the sugar agents
here do not get together and protest
against the treatment they are receiv-
| ing at the hands of the sugar trust
or why they don't refine their own SUI
gar" said Senator L. L. NcCandless
yesterday. If they don't it won't be
long before the main industry Of the
islands is wiped out.
I'VE were examining the statistics on
sugar production and sugar consump-
ton in the United States the other day.
Now Louisiana last year produced $780,
600 long tons of raw sugar, Porto Rico,
5,OOO tons; the Philippines. 10000
tons: Hawaii, 375, 900 long tons, and in
the United States proper were produced
195,000 tons of beet sugar, making
total production in the United States
and her Territories of 1,C45,000 tons.
Hawaii therefore shipped thirty-fve
per cent of all the sugar produced in
the United States. During the same
time also the people of America con-
sumed 2,566,10S tons, so that Hawaii
grows one-sixth of all the sugar used
in the United States. And here is Ha-
wall selling her product to the sugar
trust at three-eighths and one-eighth
Francisco and New York respectively.
Not only that, when sugar is quoted
on the continent, at 3.96 for instance,
in some way the New York quotation
made by the trust is about 40 and Ha-
wall not only gets her one-eighth of
one per cent less than the market price |
but also the half a cent per pound less
which marks the difference between |
the actual value of sugar and the valu-
alton placed upon it by the trust.
Now l don't believe in accepting the
dictation of the trust any longer. Why
should we sell our sugar to the trust
at one-eighth per cent less than the
New York market or three-eighths less
than the San Francisco price. 1 be- |
lieve that the planters here can put !
on the market refined sugar at the |
prices that raw sugar is now selling for |
in New York, with the rebate allowed |
to the trust, by building a refinery In |
New York or Philadelphia.
The people here should get together. |
Think of a community like Hawaii, |
which produces thirty-five per cent of /
the raw sugar of the United States and |
One-SiXth of the sugar consumed in |
the United States, allowing itself to be
dictated to by the sugar trust and told |
what we should do with our own su-
gar. If it keeps on the planters here
will eventually be forced out of bust
ness.
some people say that the trust will
fight us. Suppose it does. We have
one-sixth of the sugar and refine 1t
ourselves, While the trust has five
sizths and for every dollar we lose the
trust will lose five. Spreckels defeat
"a the trust and compelled it to come
to his terms, and he had only thirteen
millions behind him. WHAT is to pre-
vent US from going in and building
1 refinery and marketing our own su-
gar [ know it will take money, about
hirty millions to handle our crop every
'ear. But we have the properly here
IN which to borrow money and I am
willing that my interest shall be hypO-
hecated to get the funds needed to
light for our rights. There are twenty ,
million dollars worth of property on
oahu alone and it ought not to be diff 7
.ult to raise money sufficient to build n
Most of the plaktations have ! .
two years contract with the trust,
nut it will take that length of time to .
'uild refinery and get ready to mar
,et the refined product. 1t would be a .
God thing if refinery could be erect
d in the islands somewhere but this .
; not feasible because of the damage
o refined sugar in shipping by sea. 7
"a -,
hia would be in the center OF the east 1
IN market"