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

I lam OF ocOtldnu Blk or eight centur-
les ago seem like a bargain-counter
sacrifice. tLaughter.l
In 1910, near the middle Of the
nineteenth century, the world used
but 100000 tons Of sugar, hardly
more than a third Of what the United
States uses now In year. Il was
nearly all cane sugar, but beet sugar
was then just coming forward in Ger.
many and France. The gentleman
from Georgia [Mr. Hardwlckl has ar
gued today that because our domestic
industry has been coming up so slow.
! ly, therefore, it is of no account, and
should be disregarded Is he aware
how long it has taken to develop the
beet-sugar industry, started in the
time of Napoleon? Even before 1870
it was doing little or nothing in Ger
many. What developed it to its pres
ent position was not entirely its status
as a sugar-producing process. 1t was
the fact that the agriculturalists of
Germany, in their wise plan to make
agriculture as profitable as possible,
in order that they might stop the drift
to the cities, hit upon the beet-sugar
industry as one Of the greatest fea-
lures of their agricultural system;
and believe-and l think the facts
will bear me out-that the progress
that the United States has made in
the production Of beet sugar has not
been so much due to the American
demand for sugar here as to the fact
that our Agricultural Department for
a series of years conducted a camp
align of education to Introduce that
industry not for the sugar we would
: get, but for the advantage it would
be to our agriculture. Applause on
! Republican side.1 Beet-sugar pro
3 duction is so used in every one of
those countries on the Continent Of
Europe that are endeavoring to pre-
serve the normal balance of their
civilization. The great question to-
: day which is troubling European coun-
tries and which does not trouble us
= because our rapid pioneer growth has
) obscured our vision as to what is go
+ ing on, is the great drift of the people
} from the country to the cities. One
of the most interesting studies in
+ contemporaneous craftsmanship today
g is the effort that the nations of Eu
/ rope have made to stop that AS one
e instance, the little nation of Denmark
+, which has had the greatest success
o has law. that any land once peasant
e land shall never be sold into large
y allotments. Denmark today has a less
e proportion of her people in the cities
than any other nation. Interesting as
Y that subject is, however, l shall no
l. further digress.
t In 1910 beet sugar was coming int
r use in France and Germany In thu
thirty years following 100 the worlC
5. supply of sugar has t-rabled, and near
d ly half of this increased amount wal
C beet sugar. Today, after forty year.
It more, a little over half the world
supply is beet sugar It's development
IS has been most rapid. In 1900 tn
u cane fields of the world were produC
n ing a little over three times as mucl
n sugar as they had been producing ii
II 1910, or sixty years before; but tn
II beet fields, with nearly 100000 ton
e that year, were producing over hun
e dred times as much sugar as the
II produced in 1910. In the last tel
T. years the cane growers have awaken
&c ed from their lethargy and the pre-
u duction of both cane and beet suga
D. has marched ahead with surprisin
y swiftness, until today it amounts t
e over 100000 tons year, giving tn
world total production of almos
IL 17,OOO,O 900 tons.
- 1t is this great supply that make
u sugar so cheap in these modern times
% Without the beet sugar, which SUI
:, plies the whole Continent of Europ
)" and two-thirds of EngIand's consumI
ton, the price of cane sugar woul
- rise to a point undreamed of by an
- person in this generation. In tn
" United States the consumption of 81
gar doubles in twenty years, and We
with the growing demand staring Il
- in the face, this bill proposes to strik
down our portion of the beet-suga
e industry, and the report of the M
jority of the Ways and Means Con
= mittee tells us demurely that the bus
ness of cane refining is the first thin
:. to be considered. In 1900 we produC
- ed $4,000 tons of beet sugar in tn
a United States. This year we produC
ed $4,000 tons.
n Small Increase of Sugar Prices.
# What is the necessity of moving a
II once upon the sugar tariff as a mean
"a OF reducing the cost of living, whe
there is so much to show us that W