Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-12-01
Presidents Report to Sugar
Planters Reviews Work
Done in Washlhgtot
20 0UNDATI0N LAID For
CAMP AlGN OF FuT URE
Low Price of Sugar Rlterred
To- but Worlds conslmp-
ton Is Also Rapidly
Increasing 8.
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STRIKING POINTS 4 = -
IN s7RcNc ADDRESS

iN s1hoNGt ADDRESS !
y Fight against free-sugar Las sum:
mer has laid gfound-wdk for I
successful battle in fstuIe. I
Fight must 20 on until tason' I
able degree OF ctcn Is !
assured.
Experiment station work 4
Gehiepes splendid result
y Labor conditions satisfactory
during past year =
: Ffee-stieaf blow VIII necbsitate Z
cnrtailint much wslfarl wofh \
among pl1ntafion teIpides. :
y Sugar prices f0r year 1owtr than :
for any year since 1901
: World s crop Of greai pfppor. 4
HsSs'Isn crot Il isi, ass6sly !
larger than that d ills bat =
smaller t61f that d 1f2. =
= Tributes paid ID netirine bn1 M =
! coming 81, ernors, y
a strong note of optttik conpled
With file serious staten51I that Ha-
wall must continue q We lkgur fi6Ht
f6f the safety 81 the hd.stryy per:
va1ed the address ofltle retiring
Iiftsidentf MI J p. cDpkd delivered
before the HaNaiian Sta Planters'
Association nssembledl b annual
meeting this morning
President Cooke 6aidi
TO the members Of the Itwaiians So,
esEf PldnteTs Assoelal a.
81 sIBsl. .;s 9
tion during the present fear has been
the fishf against Tree lusaf When
the Dcmotf6fio party che into power
ii was only reasonable expect that
heavy feductions wou1 Be made IN
The dnties imposed unkr the Payne
Aldfich law. The donistic sugar in
terests fell hopeful. hFeVer, that a
reasonable 1raaunt of lufy would be
retained on sugar. as ie Dembcratic
platform declared wv favor the ui.,
innate attainment Of be pfineiples
We advocate by leeisiIipp that wfil
not injure or destroy egitimate Ii.
dnstfy. All tlfough the candpaign
aesurefichs were slvenh1 the Lead
eFs of that party tbs at least a
REVENUE duty must e maintained
Oh sugar. The TACT TIT during the
preceding Congress the Io-calIei Bris-
tow BiA f14sed the Settle win only
two dissenting Demtratic votes,
aeeued 70 lend assurale that moth.
inc like tree sugar void ever pass.
that body The two Dtocratic sem
ators who voted agains lie Bristow
bin did 10 because the thought the
cut on sugar was too gtat
The announcement hade during
last March that the ADMINISTRATION
advocated free sugar cane as q blow
70 fhe producers Of neaIy half of the
sugar consumed ia the United States.
a gfeat industry extehing over IS
states and the territties uf Porto
Rico and Hawaii wa lmenacsd: an
annual production au lRtin2 to over
sls0, ,0o9, 900 was ingo L ask we'll as
hundreds .of millions oiIoiiaf invest
ed IN plants and sub ,an enter
As soon as the policybfI Itae admin.
istration became know daree dele.
cations from the variou sugar inter
eais appeared IN Washigtoa for the
purpose 0 endeavoring to show how
tne paI<| pledges had been broken
and how lIsastro0s the 6fecte az free
sugar Will be. 3
i Al Fo KEMosT Id FlGHT. 4
Hefetotore the policy of the Ha
Malian Planters has been to keen
.'s-ee in the background ioh ordinary
Of national laasiation, but
~. sugar began u threaten the
9fe Of the teriAory, Has
ssestssa%' ~ Gferemost place al the fir
GA was represented by the
Gkntlemen On Washington
several months the biiIi
discussion. Sdfge s. M
le Washington fspresenta.
NE H. s. P. A, E6h. George
III, representing the Chamber
perce and the Mefehants' As
Of Honolulu, MI. Harry Ir,
- the Hflo Board of Trade,
r. d. Mead and j b. Trenor,
=. presenting the IL s. p. AZ, Mr..
}umbuFg, representing the firm
HackfeId & Co, Ltd, and
= Is. w. G. Cooke A. d Baldwin
e. Paxton on behalf Of, Alex,
A q Baldwin, Ltd. y
y above named gentlemen, in
ction with representatives, of
< Yet sugar states and Louisiana
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