The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-03-30

from the following sources, and is es-
timated:
Tons.
American beet sugar ....,. $4,000 |
Louisiana cane sugar .... 100000 |
Texas cane sugar ........ 5000 |
Porto Rico cane sugar 900. $4,000 |
Hawaii cane sugar .... 100000 !
Cuba cane sugar .......... 100000 !
Philippines cane sugar ..... 100000
Total ...............,. 3,6JS,OOO
All this sugar is raised here or
comes free into the United States ex-
cept that from Cuba which pays 1 Is
cents pound duty where other out
side countries pay % cents.
Thus, with the encouragement
which we have given to our domestic
industry and TO Cuba, we will produce
our supply within our own circle. We
go abroad for very little sugar, so lit
tie that there is an internal competi-
ton which forces the Cuban planters
to give our consumers the tariff con-
cession which they would be glad to
keep for themselves.
We have taken Porto Rico and Ha-
wall into our national family. We have
raised the standard of their labor and
living, and they in turn have become
great purchasers in our markets. Now,
we are proposing to turn them over to
the free competition of Java, where
a man gets twenty-five cents day
and a woman twelve cents. If we
paralyze those islands, take away
from Cuba the preferential she now
enjoy, at the same time eXtinguish-
ing the Louisiana and Gomestic-beet
industry, where are we to turn for
sugar?
What the NorId's Market for Sugar Is.
Why, we will turn to that great and
; indefinite refuge of antique economic
theories, the worlds market On that
we will depend.
, What is that worlds market. 1t is
a great international combination of
E which we are not part, and which
is controlled by a committee in which
we have no membership. When sugar
. scared skyward last September that
committee might have remedied the
, price by letting more sugar into the
worlds market, but it did not do it
then, although it has since taken ac-
ton. AS we within our own circle
did not quite supply ourselves, we had
= We were saved from going entirely
( to their prices by our beet produc-
! ton.
7 This branch of the subject is i'm
portant enough for me to read to you
: from the testimony before our COM
J mittee of the sugar expert who has
been so often quoted in this debate,
Mr.. Willett, of New York. He said
/ that to a great extent the sugar trade
5 of the world is not free and open and
) clear, and is subject to bounties and
7 restrictions and conditions. He gives
J this advice:
81 say increase the Cuban, Porto
} Rican, Hawaiian, Philippine, and do
nestle cane-sugar industry to a point
= above all requirements for consump-
ton, up to 100000 tons, so that if
e Cuba should give out some year and
2 not produce much sugar we would
( still have enough for our consump-
, ton. Then We would be independent
T of the world and we would make our
z own price That price will depend
t upon the competition between the diff
ferent interests, between Cuba, Porto
.. Rico Hawaii, and the domestic beet
| and cane industry. They will be all
, working to get our market and the
t consumer, then, will get the advanr
r. age"
The Modern Supply and Its Effect on
. Prices.
+ What makes sugar so cheap in the
{ world today is the great modern sup
+ ply of sugar In the earliest times su
t gar cane was the source of the worlds
e sugar supply, and that cane supply
S was subject to all the conditions Of
b the hectic fitful civilization Of tropi
l. Teal and Oriental islands. In Europe
e sugar was, until the beginning of the
t eighteenth century a costly luxury
d and a medicine In 1919 the Lore
; Chamberlain of Scotland paid abou
n forty cents a pound for sugar. In the
a middle Of the eighteenth century Pc
n ter Faneuil, the great Boston mer
chant, was paying about the sam,
/. price II We had waited for thos,
n tropical islands to supply us with al
d OF our sugar we wOula lay be pay