Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-03-18
BUSINESSMEN MEET
=. FOR SUGAR PROTECTION
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fer the finance subcommittee Fur
! ther time was granted TO the sub-com-
lnittee TO prepare resolutions for Mr..
DohrmanH TO submit to the San Fran
cisco commercial bodies. 49,. -.... :. /
! Chairman George r. Carter submit
! Ter a diagram 10 illustrate the pro
, greSs OF the campaign, which was re-
fsrred TO the organization committee.
Il will show from day 10 day what
has been done by the workers report
ing on letters sent. r. = -... 49,. III.
! Secretary W. H. Rabbit reported
lists of senators and representatives,
which were ordered published accord
ing TO arrangements he had made,
with copies furnished on separate
: sheets after appearance in the daily
papers. s:. H.. T.. g..
! Mt Carter said he appreciated
very much the action taken by the
, insurance men. I'VE must realize"
he said, addressing the meeting
that if the sugar industry is Grip
/ pied We will all have to go to the
mainland to hunt a Job. We must
carry the sugar ship on our shoulder
| like the proverbial Irishman.' He
went On TO say that different meth
ors would have to be used to inau-
ence different kinds of people, and
/ suggested .Ine of information to be
sent out by insurance men. Corre-
sSondents were not supposed to en-
close the printed material furnished,
but to study the contents and make
! them their own In other words, he
urged the personal touehR =:
He read a synopsis of Judge Bal
louis brief which had been prepared
/ by the planters and commended it as
suitable for printing. There was
some discussion of certain express
sions in the paper and it was laid
aside for further consideration. The
chairman also submitted statistics of
Hawaiian commerce for 1912, partly
obtained by himself from the custom
house and partly furnished by the
commercial editor of The Star-Bulle-
! tin They showed that California had
enjoyed the lions share of the trade,
also that the commerce had greatly
increased last year. ss. III.
Mr. Carter expressed surprise at
the growth of the campaign, which
exceeded anything he anticipated
when he suggested, in answer 10 the
request for him to go to Washington,
| that it was more important to do
something at home.
| Mr.. Campbell told of the seeming
| incredulity with which gathering Of
| engineers that entertained him in
New York received his statement
| that the plantations here had to
pump twice as much water as the en-
tire supply of the city of San Fran
cisco. ..s.... -.. '..<...
In answer to question by Mr..
Campbell, the chairman said that the
beet sugar men had done more than
| was generally known, but they did not
il pull with the Louisiana cane sugar
men and had no organized campaign.
He then addressed the visitors in. ex-
! PLANTATION of the plan of campaign.
Mr.. Hedemann spoke of the dense
ignorance of the people in the east re-
garding the conditions of the sugar in
dustry in Hawaii. They knew nothing
of the cost of irrigation. 1t was
thought by them that all that had to
be done here was just to stick piece
of cane in the ground and it would
grow beautifully the same as in Cuba.
What we pay for water and fertilizers,
which they do not use in Cuba, was
utterly unknown to them. AS mat
: ter of fact, it was almost ridiculous to
consider cane-growing here in COM
parison with the practices in Cuba
Mr.. Gilman said it would not be a
bad idea to let people know where Ha-
waii is and its relation to the United
States. The other day he received a
letter addressed to Honolulu, Philip
pine Islands. ~.
Mr.. Carter gave an instance of the
| trouble a family friend had about
lsending gift to his son, as he could
not obtain the blank required to make
out a foreign manifest. ~.
Mr.. Hedemann stated that four
times as much water was used here
to irrigate cane than the water sup
ply of the city of New York. He
gave rough figures to show that it
cost approximately twenty dollars
more to produce a ton of sugar in
| Hawaii than in Cuba. On the ques-
| ton of aIDor also there was much
misapprehension, the speaker contin-
tCus III vi IHC ObSSdA uloIllCIS
of Cuba there were twenty-six men
for every square. mile, and in those
districts there was never any trouble
in procuring all the labor watned at
! lower wages than paid in Hawaii. In
other districts the number of men to
the square mile was eight, and there
it was less easy to obtain labor.
Mr.. Carter said these facts. suggest
| cd another line of argument. In re-
| ferring to the boast Of Hawaii that it
was the most advanced sugar coun-
! try in the world, sugar men elsewhere
, gave the large profits of sugar rails
ing here as the reason. Instead of
| chat, the fact was that the Hawaiian
planter had to put science into the
business to make it yield any profit.
|, He related a conversation with a
| Cuban planter, who told him the de-
| gree of extraction from the cane on
his plantation. 1t showed that Cuba
burned up enough sucrose to make a
profit in Hawaii. ~. H.
In reply to suggestion by Mr..
! Mooney for widening the scope of the
| 10 m moi ion Mr. TOuSo dicnIayod and