The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-12-18

IN point OF amounts respectively
prising revelation to many people. Mr..
to illustrate how the Philippines with
sugar industry makes an interesting
amount invested in the American SUI
gar industry The six and one-half
million dollars invested in our 81 tin
Plate mills is but fraction over 1 per
cent. of what we have invested in
sugar plants. Our investment in the
sugar industry is Is times what it is
in all our cordage and twine plants; 16
times what it is in all our distilleries:
eight times what it is in glass fac
tories; nearly seven times what it is in
shipbuilding plants; six times what it is
in silk mills; four and one-half times
what it is in our 5000 furniture fac
tories; three times what it is in otir
agricultural implement factories, and
rearly three times what it is in all of
our 100 great slaughtering and meat
packing plants.
Then compare the value of the annual
output. OF the entire census list of 317
groups there are but rs the value of
the output of which exceeded 10 per
cent. of the wholesale value of the
product of the American sugar fac
tories in 1905; only 40 groups where it
exceeded 25 per cent; but 19 where it
exceeded so per cent, and but eight
where it was in excess of the value
of the sugar output. Last year the
value of the product of our sugar mills
was three times as great as that of all
our distilleries in 1900; twice as much
as that of all our bakeries; 81 million
dollars more than that OF all our brew
cries; more than half as much as that
of all our flour and grist mills. and 40
per cent. of as much as the value of ah
our slaughtering and meat-packing
plants.
Next, compare the value of our SUI
gar imports with the value of our ex-
ports of manufactured products. The
value of our exports of cotton manu-
factures and silk manufactures and
wool manufa ctures combined would liq-
uidate our foreign sugar bill for only
six months; of pig iron, bar iron, bill
lets, blooms, wire, wire rods, iron and
steel rails, iron and steel sheets, tin
plate and structural iron combined,
for only four months; of sole leather
boots and shoes, harness and saddles,
and all other classes of leather goods,
for less than five months; of fresh beef,
for three months, of agricultural i'm
plements, for two months.
AS compared to the value of our ex-
ports of cereals, our imports of sugar
cost us more than twice as much as
we received for our exports of wheat
and wheat flour, and within ten mill
lion dollars of as much as we received
for our combined exports of all cereals
and flours therefrom.
Comparing the value of our cereal
crops with the amount we annually
expend for sugar at home and abroad, |
we find that our annual sugar bill
amounts to over 60 per cent of the
total farm value of all the wheat we
produce; it exceeds by $4,000, 900 dol
lars the value of all the oats we pro-
duce, and it is six times as great as the
value of all the barley we produce.
Comparing our sugar bill with the
production of gold aid silver, it will
be seen that our 1905 sugar bill amount
ed to four times the value of all the
gold we mined in the United States
and Alaska in 1904, and exceeded by
million dollars the value of
all the gold which was mined in all
other portions of the world. All the
SOlu WHICH HAS bSSI pAOoo1Cu III tA'O
entire world since the discovery OF
America would settle the sugar bills of
the American people for only thirty
four years.
When it comes to our exports, we
find that the amount of money We an
nualIy expend for sugar amounts to
one-fifth of the total value of all our
exports of every character to every
on the face of the globe.
Transfer our home sugar industry to
a foreign country and all the money
We now receive for our combined ex-
ports of iron and steel breadstuffs.
cotton goods and leather goods will
not be sufficient to settle our foreign
for the one item of sugar.
FARM VALUES IN COMPARISON.
What the American people pay out
for sugar every two years would pur-
chase every farm and farm building
IN the whole of New England and
eave a surplus of 12S million dollars
With which to stock them. Our sugar
bills for. three years amount to more
than the value of all the farms and
farm buildings in Ohio and to 100 mill
ion dollars more than the value of
Ill the farms and farm buildings In
either New York or Pennsylvania.
l am glad to note the awakening or