The Hawaiian gazette., 1913-01-24
WILL FIGHT ANY
REDUCTION OF
TARIFF
Pineapple Growers Take Steps
to Save infant Industry
from Disaster.
AGENT ON WAY TO CAPITAL
Gable Delegate, But He Fails tn
Attend Tariff Hearing
in House.
AGENT ON WAY TO CAPITAL
(From wendncsday Advertiscr)

(From "Wednesday Advertiser)
While the sugar men of the Terri
tory are awaiting with resignation the
proposed cut in the sugar schedule of
the tariff, the pineapple growers and
Gamers of Hawaii are up in arms
against any cut in the present dutyeon
pineapples, fresh or canned.
1t appears that the pineapple schee.
ule was considered by the Underwood
committee Of the house on Monday and
over week ago the pineapple men sent
cable to Delegate Kuhio at San Fran
cisco, asking him to be sure to appear
before the committee at that time and
present their side of the case.
Recently the pineapple men received
the Following cable from the Delegate
to Congress from this Territory:
"The only action taken in re pine
apple tariff on record before the I'm
derwood committee is brief letter
from Mr.. Stevens, of Portland, Oregon,
who alleges that under the Dingey tar
in thousands of cases were imported.
That under the present tariff naturally
it precluded bringing in of any pine
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ported for three years, therefore, no
revenue to the government. That the
Hawaiian growers are given monop-
ly to disadvantage of consumer, en-
abling them to obtain higher prices
than warrantable, They ask for re-
duction of the pineapple tariff"
Special Agent to Washington.
Upon the receipt of this cable the
pineapple growers here at once cabled
to Mr.. Ames, of Wahiawa, who is in
San Francisco, telling him to 90 to
Washington with Delegate Kuhio and
appear before the committee of the
house and make the best fight possible
for retention of the duty on pine
apples.
; At the same time the growers have
prepared a synopsis of information re-
garding this industry here for the bene-
fit of the committee 1t is asserted
that the pineapple industry is an in
FAINT one and has only within few
years been under way and has only just
got start after the investment of
large sums OF money and the expense
of advertising it and thus making q
market.
The American growers feel that if
the Democratic congress wipes out the
. protection under which they have built
up this industry and opens the market
| of the United States TO cheap foreign
canned goods from India and other tro.
pical countries where labor and fruit
( is cheap, by a reduction of the present
( tariff, it will mean disaster to a grow.
. ing industry which means much to the
( semi-tropic countries now under the
/ American flag.
k Important for Homesteaders.
And it is not only the pineapple in.
dustry alone which will suffer, but
many other allied interests. Chief
among the reasons for protecting pine
apple growing is the fact that it will
be an encouragement for homesteading
according to Fred Macfarlane, manager
here for Libby, Mcneil and Libby of
Honolulu, Limited, who told yesterday
of the extensive cultivation of pine.
apples by homesteaders on these Isl.
ands.
Another industry is that of the can
industry, which would be seriously
] affected by a reduction of the tariff on
pineapples, for with the curtailment OF
the pineapple industry the millions OF
cans now used would also be cut down
to minimum, while foreign corpora
tions would secure the benefit Of what
has so far been done by American
pluck and initiative assisted by the
protection of the Payne-Aldrieh bill g
e clause protecting the native.grown
}. pineapple.
|. Meanwhile Delegate Kuhio missed
c the hearing in Washington on the pine
p apple schedule, AS he did that on sugar