The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-12-18
THE PHILIPPINE
BILL AND OUR
SUGAR INDUSTRY
Americas Enormous Sugar Consumption lin.
mense Importance of Home Sugar Industry
Hawaii and Philippines Compared.

Truman Fl. Palmer, Secretary Am
following paper before the Trans Mi
furnishes graphic birdseye view of
comparison between that and other ind
invested therein, will probably be a su
PaImer2s use of the case of Hawaii
free trade could swamp the America
conclusion of his paper:
Mr.. President and Fellow Delegates to
the Seventeenth Annual Session OF
the Transmississippi Commercial
Congress:
There are few indeed, who realize
the importance which home sugar pro-
auction has upon the domestic econ
crnx- of the nations of the world, ana
upon the development and prosperity
OF this great transmississippi territory.
The use of the cereal crops as articles
nf diet antedateS the Christian era ny
thousands of years, but one OIL INC
earliest mentions of even raw sugar
was in the thirteenth century, at WHICH
time it sold at 43 cents per pound Inc
art of refining was not uiscosei
until the beginning of the fourteeIilii
century, and it was not until tne oe
ginning of the seventeenth century tha1
Sneen Eliza beth became its patron
saint by first introducing its use as an
article of diet. One hundred and hfty
wears later Marggraf discovered thdl
sugar could be produced from Deels'
and in 1901 the first beet sugar factory
was erected. ,
lion tons of sugar, less than five per
.oant of which was derived from beets.
In 1890 the worlds sugar consumption
had increased to six million tons, only
to be doubled last year, when the crop
.axeee6ad twelve million tons, owe
seven millions of which were produced
from sugar beets
Last year the people of the world ex-
pended a billion and a quarter Tor the
purchase of this newly-found article OIL
diet. or nearly twelve times the total
value of all our exports of breadstulis
to all the nations of the world Inc
growth of no other newiy-found artl-
Gle of diet begins to compare with Ihat
Of sugar. and none can predict Wha'
figures its future production will reach.
But if the per capita consumption ol
tho world were as great as that of the
limited States it would require over
6ftv million tons to supply it, and the
annual bill would be over six blillon
dollars
Owing to the important bearing Oh
nome sugar production on the uoInes-
tic economy of a nation, the States
men and political economists OF hu-
rope have so legislated that over SIN
hundred million dollars have been IN
vested in 1900 beet sugar factorles' anu
i'm all Continental Europe there are out
three nations and these of the siildii-
EST which do not produce all or more
sugar than they consume, while pc
tween them they export several mil
lion tons
AMERICAS SUGAR BILL.
The 1905 sugar bill of the American
reoUle amounted TO over oZS Aiiiiioii
dollars. or more than million uoiiaIS
for each working day of the year III
the United states proper, ana III oui
insular possessions we produced a large
nroportion of this sugar, but III auo'-
tion to the home production We eX-
-,,,od o,,ar ninety-seven million dol
lars in foreign countries for the pur-
rhase OF this single product. 1t took
tba nroduct from over eight and haI
and oats 70 settle our 1905 sugar pllls-
o,,r 1ao5 lamentations of sugar were
ac,,aI to the value of l21 million BUSH
ole of wheat at so cents per DuShel'
and this 121 million bushels of wheat
rob orr soil of over twenty mlilon uoi--
lars worth of fertilizing elements, Whlle
the sugar we import does not come
from the soil. but is merely the RAIN
the wind and the sunshine WHICH
swaens over foreign fields, and In no
nossibIe manner can it replemsh our
soil one iota.
To produce at home all the sugar we
consume does not mean that we must
establish a new industry, but herels
exnand an existing industry. the huge
inheritance of which is not Seheraiiy
cor,,Drehendej In the beet sugar IN
6us+rv and the cane sugar industry OF
7 ouisiana. Texas Porto Rico and Ha-
vaii there is invested over 523 million
dollars. Compare this investment WIN
the money invested in other American
industries.
SONE. POINTED COMPARISONS
The 1909 census report groups an
manufacturing industries under "4'
.1assifications or heads. There are but
- IN which the caritaI invested exceeds
= nar cent of the amount invested III
the American sugar industry put
IN which if exceeds 10 per cent; but 10
in which il exceeds 25 per cent; puI
seven in which il exceeds so per cent
and hut four in which it exceeds the