Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-11-02
DEMOCRATS PREACHING ruin FOR THE
SUGAR INDUSTRY.

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Democratic candidates through their recognized and &C
Ceped official literature have tied themselves up to the
statement that the SUGAR INDUSTRY Of these islands us
IN A CONDITION TO DOUBLE WAGES OR AT LEAST TO
VERY MATERIALLY RAISE WAGES" .,.... ... go. q.
These same candidates also responsible in their OIL
Ca printed literature for statement urging the voters OF
the Territory to keep out the pauper plantation aborers
and orCeythe plantations to pay honest living wages
INSTEAD, of ALLOWING THE PLANTERS TO SWELL THEIR
MONEY PILES BY THE SWEAT OF SLAVES
This lines up the Democratic party and each Of its cand
dates with definite declaration that the sugar plantations of
this Territory are position to double the wages of their
Iaborers in some instances and Materially raise them in all
cases. .......... ...- w.-..s ys..., IF.
That what you endorse when you vote for McCandess
Trent Thayer land others on the Democratic ticket
In view of the present status of the worlds sugar crops,
these Democratic candidates must stand before the COM
munty as either fools who don't take the trouble to know
what they talking about, or knaves who know that plan
taton wages cannot be raised who know that their official
campaign literature is utterng falSehoodS who know that
they are misleading the voters and are doing so deliberately
In either case these are not men who should be elevated
to positions of public trust by the voters of this city or Ter
ritoryi
The ability Of our sugar plantations to increase wages Of
the abOrers depends on the price OF sugar. Continuance OF
present prices might assure an era Of large income for the
SugarpropertieS ..
Reliable statistics issued by the worlds best sugar author
tiles show that the increase of the worlds supply of
sugar. tor the coming year amounts to twelve per cent over
the year just closing or to be exact an increase of 5583
TONS sa'.s z.
Cuba for 1911 will turn out larger crop than this year,
/ by one hundred thousand tons or more.
The increase in the European beet sugar crop reaches
figure of tremendous proportions, almost equang the total
Cuban output for 1909-10 stT#.f.
Whereas the increased production of raw sugar amounts
to twelve per cent the increased consumption Of sugar for
period of twenty years has averaged only four and for
ty-Seven hundredhs per cent.
There is not man in the Democratic party who knows
anything about the influence Of the worlds sugar production
upon the worlds price for sugar. who does not also know
that campaign for doubling materially increasing the
rate Of wages on our sugar plantations during the coming
year means ruin for ninety per cent OF the sugar properties
[. of this Territory
There is not the slightest doubt that the first days Of the
new Year will see in this Territory radical and sweeping
eadipstment of the dvdendpaying policies Of the sugar
plantations and is highly probable that the number of
plantations suSpendng dividends during the year 1911 will
be larger than the number paying profit
That may not sound nice to the Democrats to the stock
brokers but nevertheless the forecast Of truthful poba-
For the Democrats to hold out the hope of higher wages
the plantations in view of the coming years outlook for
sugar. prices is worse than folly. is absolute buncomb
is ha1dng the aboring men of Hawaii gold brick.
The Democratic campaign judged by its official literature
is heWorst and most damaging to the Territory that has been
carried since Maxine and his associated thugs attempted
to cnch up the plantation aborers through the manipulation
of secret organization.
To- vote the Democratic ticket this year to vote for
policy OF industrial ruin, that is clear cut and definitely out
lined in the literature for which MGCandeSS, Trent, hayer
and their associated Democratic candidates and managers
are responsible.