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

cent; and oats, eighty.slx per cent
will say that those rises in price
OF commodities have gone on not only
In this country, but In England and +
her free-trade market. They hav
not oscillated 80 violently, becaus,
her standard is lower in prices for
everything. but the same distinction
between sugar and other commodities
is shown in the markets OF England.
want to call attention now to tho
fact that sugar, which has held it's
own level better than any other com
modify, is, at the same time, the
commodity which is produced ap3
marketed under conditions that are
further removed from the laissez
faire, or free-trade policy, than the
conditions surrounding the production
of any other commodity of similar
nature.
Cheap Sugar not Product Of Free
Trade
No other commodity is so surround
ed by tariff and restrictions as is
sugar. Even free-trade England puts
tariff duty on it, On the Continent
of Europe sugar is watched over and
guarded by all the devices criticized
| by the laissez faire school and con-
demned by the platforms and historic
! policy of the Democratic Party. And
yet in the worldwide and trouble
some rise of prices in the eight years
preceding 1910 sugar in this market
only went up eight per cent, while
other similar commodities went up
from thirty-one to seventy-four per
cent. There can be only one thing
to account for it-that there is a
better and more constant supply of
sugar in the world than of the other
commodities
Now, l have assumed, as / have
gone along, that this bill would de-
stroy our cane and beet industry. l
have told you that this bill avoids the
countervailing clause of our tariff bill.
That would result
The Chairman. The time of the
gentleman has expired.
Mr.. Dalzell. Mr.. Chairman, yield
the remaining five minutes of my time
to the gentleman from Maine.
Mr.. Kinds. This bill will let in the
bounty-fed sugar of Russia and Argen-
tina The sugar of Russia is not only
bounty fed, but it is absolutely con-
trolled by the autocratic Russian Gov
eminent. They determine what sugar
shall be produced, what prices it shall
be sold for; they provide that a sur
plus shall be stored up; and they
provide for the sending of that sur
plus to foreign markets. The Contin-
: ent of Europe, free-trade England,
+ Germany and other countries, have
not permitted more than 100000 tons
, of their sugar to come upon their
. market. This year they have length
/ ened that out temporary by 5000
: tons. This bill pr"~o..s y oive 10 ~
Empire of Russia, if l construe its
s effects Alright, free and open market
G In the United States for all the sugar
: that may be produced by her partner.
O ship with the sugar factories and her
!. control of the industry under her an
cient despotism
y l believe that this, in conjunction
O with the general free trade, would be
c sufficient in few years to injure seri
ously the domestic sugar industry IL
v the United States and seriously inter
n fere with it in our colonial POSSES
!. sions. And / believe it because when
!. bounty-fed sugar came into the free
= trade markets of Europe it caused
. such destruction of the canc-suga,
n production of England's colonies t.
o she-the one free-trade nation
. rope and not the protection
tions-called a European co
4. stop the bounty-fed sugar froJ
to her market And yet
can not stand we are pr
q turn against our growing
Gus industry.
d The Labor Cues,
y Another reason why
e er that industry is tina,
J. ate Zone industry
t Zone labor. The inr
IS fining contemplates
.e great tropical pla
r many landless
a. tropical condition
u tors and in the
il fineries on our
9 tTolled by gre
? ing against tt
g would not init
= that we shouI
quiry by the