The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-12-15
The Rapid Transit.
Rapid Transit Securities.

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free Philippine sugar would be merely
change in shipping routes, without
the slightest or any very ,apprecable
change in the amount of sugar compel
ing for the United States market.
Atlantic or Pacific Ports.
What is probably of far more con.
Germ to Hawaii is the route by which
this additional Philippine sugar will
find its way to the United States. At
present the Philippine Islands have the
privilege of shipping their products to
the United States in foreign bottoms.
As long as this privilege is retained, it
is probable that the great bulk of this
sugar will enter the United States by
the Atlantic seaboard. This route is
probable because the ability of steam
ships to get cargoes from the Atlantic
seaboard to the Far East, makes it pos
sible for them to give a freight rate
from the Philippines to the Atlantic
seaboard, which, all things considered,
is better than any rate they can get
to Pacific coast ports.
| Coastwice Privilege.
But this privilege to the Philippines
3, to ship to the United States in foreign
bottoms, expires by the terms of the
present law, next July. If it should
not be renewed another state of affairs
would arise. 1t is doubtful if sufficient
American steam bottoms could be
secured to carry the sugar to the At,
lantic seaboard, at rate which could
compete with the rate the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company could, make to the
fak int 4
the lower price for raw sugar that has
always prevailed on the Pacific coast
as compared with the New York and
Atlantic seaboard price. The result
might be that the crop of the Philip
pines would be landed on the Pacific
coast and add practically that much
to the Pacific coast supply over and
above the consumption of refined sugar
of the Pacific coast. The result would
naturally be that quantity of this
supply would have to find its way into
the Missouri river region and come di-
.rectly into competition with the largest
area of American beet sugar production.
To Land Sugar at Atlantic Ports.
In other words, it seems of more
concern to the sugar industry of these
Islands, as well as to the beet sugar
industry of the Missouri River region,
that the Philippine sugar shall be land
ed at the Atlantic seaboard, where the
consumption is greatest Nand domestic
production is least, than the question
of whether it shall come in free or
not.
Pacific Coast Supply.
The demand for refined sugar on the
, Pacific Coast is fully met by the por-
, tion of the sugar crop of Hawaii that
, is shipped to San Francisco and the
, beet sugar production of the Pacific
Coast. 1t is true. that there have been
, occasional importations of Java and
, other sugars to San Francisco, but
, these have been infrequent and, rela.
, lively to the domestic source of sup.
ply, insignificant. A very different sit.
| uation, however, might be presented, If
! freight rates should be such as to land
the Philippine crop on the Pacific
Coast instead of on the Atlantic.
Not Enough Sailing Vessels.
Steamships must be taken into con
: sideration, in figuring on transporta
tion from the Philippines. For while
some sailing vessels might be employ
ed, it would be found by the Philip
pine exporters, as by the Hawaiian
, shippers that enough sailing vessels
could not be secured to move the crop
The Hawaiian shippers have difficulty
in securing enough sailing vessels 10
carry the portion of their crop around
the Horn that they desire should 20
that way. The reasons for this are
! not far to seek. In the first place,
only frstclass vessels of large carry.
ing capacity are suited to the business
and, in the second place, the entire
crop is required to be moved within
very short time.
The S0o.0O0-Ton Limit.
The question of what means shall
be devised to equalize matters when
the export crop becomes more than
100000 tons, if that is to be the limit
of free sugar, is one that no one seems
able to throw any light on. If it is
the first 100000 tons to enter ports of
the United States or the first 100000
tons to be cleared for the United
States, difficulties will be met with.
; However, that is something for the
Ways and Means Committee to wrestle
with.
Ewa's New Water Supply.
Eva plantation has recently com
pleted the sinking of eight new aYte-
sian wells, with the result of an added
supply of water sufficient to irrigate
from eight hundred to thousand acres
of land additional to that which has
been under irrigation before.
A Long Trust Period.
The decision Of the Supreme Court