Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1906-01-20
HAWAII Should NOT
SAYS PAYNE
FEAR COMPETITION

The position which Chairman
Payne OF the Ways and Means Com.
mittee took in regard to Hawaii in the
debate on the Philippine tariff bill in
! the House of Representatives on Jan.
nary 4 Is shown by the Congressional
/ Record to have been somewhat exag.
gerated. Payne in the debate stated
as follows:
Now, Mr.. Chairman, what will be
the effect of the passage OF this bill re.
I ducing this rate of duty to 80 cents a
/ hundred pounds. or third Of cent
pound, upon the sugar industry Of
the Philippine Islands? | do not be-.
lieve It is going to give them a market
in the United States. do not believe
| Ii Is relief enough 10 help them here
at least, | am very much in doubt
about it--for the three years that this
duty is to be placed upon the sugar.
It will stimulate the price in China.
We have examined a good deal into
the price of sugar in the Philippine
Islands under their present methods,
which. of course, could be improved II
we could get the capital to go over
there; and yet with the improved
methods In the Hawaiian Islands, they
do not seem TO have reyolutionized the
cost Of sugar. They have better sugar
lands there than they have In the Phil
ippine Islands. They have had free
sugar into the United States for about
thirty absolutely free. They
have built up an industry there in the
Hawaiian Islands OF 100000 tons a
year. They have some very rich
lands. They have some lands there
that have produced the record crop Of
the world. | saw some land near Pearl
Harbor-and bought by the Govern.
ment OF the United States, but now un.
der the control Of the owners on a Ger.
tain leasehold arrangement where
they told me that In one year they
had produced eleven and twelve tons
or sugar per acre. The managers of
that plantation say that they do not
think that the extra amount of sugar
pays for the extra expense In cultiya.
ton and in fertIlIzlng.'
Mr.. McGavin-I would like to ask
the gentleman from New York what
. the reason is for excluding sugar from
the absolutely free list?
Mr.. Payne am sorry that my
> friend was not here when | commenc.
cd. | said that the only reason was
for the sake of revenue. They need
the revenue. There Is no other reason
that know Of.
The gentleman from New York then
touched upon the amount OF revenue
produced by sugar, and continued: II
remember now that | was talking
about Hawaii, and free sugar there
e and the result. Mr.. Hatch, who is re-
/, tained by the business people of Ha
: wall to look after their interests In
> Washington, appeared before the com
: mlttee. He does not want this bill tC
|, pass, and they do not want this bill
= to pass. They are afraid that II will
: Ieopardize something In Hawaii II thii
bill passes. Still, he tells about tn,
result there. while these lands tina
I have referred to produce eleven Il
twelve tons per acre on this one plan
tation, they are able to produce bu
from two to three tons per acre on tn,
average land In the Islands. And the!
say that on their investment of SOS.
100000 In plantations the last two
4 years, the return was 81 per cent. pro
F III H. the whole island. Now. II witt
American capital and Hawaiian capt
tai II WIN lut Uthl ulufullelN III Wv
4 world, ii with steam plows and tn,
y, highest and best methods Of cultiva
II ton for producing sugar in the world
0 this Is the result after thirty years o
y tree trade with the United States, wha
l. In the name Of common sense has an
d interest In the United States to fea
from the Philippine Islands?
q why. Mr.. Chairman, visited on
o of the plantations in the Philippine
e and saw sugar mill. They had cal
l, abao power with which TO grind tn
y cane. They had carabao at each en-
e CT d, and a boy to drive the carabaC
y They had a three.roller mill, and the
y fed the rollers with one stalk at time
y 49, Now, you expect that these pee
y pie. with these crude methods, will
out any understanding OF the moder
means of producing sugar, to walk a
o once into the position OF the Hawaiia
h, Islands, and to be able to come Int
It your market and sell sugar at the e'
3 travagant profit of 81 per cent. prom