Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-07-19
FACTS AND FIGURES ON HAWAIIAN SUGAR PRODUCTION ARE BROUGHT OUT ATPROBE HEARING
SENATE LOBBY PROBE COMMITTEE QUESTIONS GEORGE CARTER At VERY GREAT LENGTH

~
{ Senator Walsh. That IS what J
want to know.
Mr.. Carter, The circulation is about
| 1850 now
Senator Walsh. You have sent
them, then. as understand you, TO
newspapers throughout the country?
/ Mr.. Carter. Precisely.
| Senator Walsh. And how do yc1
select the newspapers to which they
shall go2
Mr.. Carter. We took the directory
of the newspapers of the country. and
selected those that were distributed
geographically, in that publication, as
wide as possible.
Senator Walsh Have you any ar
rangements with any newspapers
! throughout the country for the publ
cation of these bulletins?
Mr.. Carter. We have not, that !
/ know of.
Senator Walsh. You certainly
would know about it, would you not,
Governor?
Mr.. Carter. ] should hope so.
Senator Walsh. Then why did you
qualify your answer?
Mr. Carter. Because ID may have
been made by others before II came
here; but know of no arrangement
since have been here, and no men.
ton of any such arrangement.
Senator Walsh. And in addition to
getting this bulletin into the hands Of
/ the newspapers throughout the coun-
try that might or might not care to
publish them
Mr.. Carter. This is to inform them,
whether they publish them or not.
Senator Walsh. Yes; to whom, be.
sides, do they go?
i Mr.. Carter. might perhaps en-.
tighten you by saying that before
left Honolulu we held a campaign
/ there of two weeks, and was chair.
man of a public committee. This was
/ after my engagement, or after / had
been requested to come. This was
what was called the Hawaiian sugar
] protection committee 1t was appoint
ed at a meeting Of the chamber OF
commerce and the merchants associ
!. alton, jointly, and there used my
best endeayor. in conjunction with
tmy colleagues there. to appeal to our
i friends throughout the United States
and we aimed to get out 10000 let
tiers of appeal, pointing out the inn
pending disaster and the annihila.
i ton of the entire commerce of ouT
islands. and we asked every human
being in the city of Honolulu TO write
to their friends ON the mainland and
to appeal to members of congress and
TO an those in power and who might
help JUS to prevent the impending dis
aster.
/ Senator Walsh. Did that commit
i tee get out any literature of any
kind?
Mr.. Carter. 1t did,
Senator Walsh. What was the
character of that literature it got out!
Mr.. Carter. 1t got out, think, -four
or five of what We call broadsides fol
a campaign of education at home with
the people there, because We told
i them that they first must make this
campaign their own, that if they
were not sufficiently interested il
their representation. they could not
j expect others TO be. Then they would
say well, in writing letter we want
some argument. Will you write q
letter for us?" We said, "No; we dc
not believe that will have the rins
of sincerity and truth about it that
it would have If you prepared the let
ter yourselves" and therefore We de
clined to prepare form of letter
But they would come and ask us fol
arguments, and we prepared four OF
five what we called broadsides, and
/ we printed them so large that they
could not mail them, and handed
i those out to those who asked for Ell
lightenment and reasons and argu
ments, and in these broadsides We
published statistics and the state
ments in regard to the industry. Now
/ those were circulars in Hawaii, and
\ as to the result / have no means 0i
4 knowing how many letters We're sent
but we hoped to get out 10000 letters
4 Some of these results of that are
shown by Representative KnOwland
in the house, who printed in the Con
gressional Record large number Of
replies, and know there was large
number of letters in the Record, and
/ they were the results of this cam
Ipaign at home.
The Chairman. This company of
i flee in the Colorado Building that you
talk about
! Mr.. Carter. 1t is not a company,
it is headquarters.
The Chairman Is that the domes
tic sugar?
Mr.. Carter. When / came here
found that the sugar men here were
calling the domestic sugar bulletin
i The Chairman Is that the com
pany where you organized and car
lried on your literary bureau-the do.
| nestle COMPANY?
Mr.. Carter. A literary bureau?
The Chairman. Domestic sugar
Is that where you send out these doc
iuments?
Mr.. Carter. That is where my of
flee is, Senator, in the Colorado
| building
! The Chairman. / understood you
to say to Senator Walsh that you did