The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1913-05-10

wall. There was exported to Hawaii
from the United States in 1911, S2l
100000 Of goods. There was import.
ed into the United States from liza
wall $40,25O.OOO worth of goods, of
which sugar formed $36,50O, 900. Lest
year there was an increase OF 50
per cent in this trade. What will pc
come Of that trade? II am correct.
ly informed by the resolution of
boards of trade of Honolulu, Iotio.
and our islands of the Pacific: IL I
am correctly informed by the gentle
men who are here and have come
here to protest against this freeing
OF sugar after three years, It means
that that industry must go. There is
no question about the destruction of
the Louisiana industry. The gentle
man from Georgia (Mr. Hardwicx).
who investigated the sugar trust, say }
frankly that 1t must go at the end OF
three years. The gentleman from
Alabama (Mr. Underwood), mas been
frank and fair enough in the debates
in this House to say that in his judg.
ment 1t must be abandoned; that
$1O0,0O0,000 worth of investments in
Louisiana must disappear as the re.
suit Of this policy.
What will become OF this trade Of
Hawaii? will tell you what will be.
come OF 1t. There are $4,000 Jap
anese in Hawaii today. The moment
you reduce this duty to the extent o.
making 1t impossible for any but
most favored plantations to continue,
the moment you reduce It TO the en-
tent that these people must reduce
the cost Of production in order = b.
this market, that minute the Ameri.
can white man in Hawaii VIII move
away from there and come back 10
his native country and engage in soma
other pursuit.. What is left? The lap
is not going back to Japan. He is
getting an outpost in the Pacific, 7.
600 miles closer to the United States
than before.
He viii be a dominating innuence;
he will become the sole laborc.. And
20 not make a mistake about II. Tho
laps understand the industry. They
developed the sugar industry in For
Tosa after the Jap-Chinese war. They.
lave sent men down to my state to
earn from the agricultural college
that furnishes the sugar chemists the
world over today-sent men down
there, as | know personally, to learn
that industry. And instead OF con-.
tinuing importers of sugar, they are
preparing according to our consular
reports. to become exporters or sugar.
They will be the people who WI;
handle those plantations in Hawaii.
so well favored as to survive this dis.
astrous legislation and to compete
with the world with Japanese laDor:
and instead of that S40,000,000 of
trade coming to the United states
you will find that trade going 10 sap
an. because the control Of the islands
will b, in the hands Of the japanese
who will stand the cut in wages wnen
the white men shall have been drive
from those islands.
What about Porto REQ? Every ca
blegram, every resolution of every
commercial body in the islands ~
Porto Rico, as well as the statenrIcs
of men whom have seen mere from
Porto Rico, assures me that IN con-
sequence Of the annexation of the ISL
and. bringing about American labor
and methods OF living in Porto Rico,
they must go under with free sugar
And yet the trade with Porto Rico
is thirty-threc and three-quarter mil
lion dollars. The importations from
the island to the United States are
thirty-four and three quarters million
dollars, OF which over twenty-five
million dollars is sugar.
Now the grade Of rice that is sold
in Porto Rico Is not consumed in rhe
United States at all. and the loss Of
that part Of the crop means the put
ting of that industry out Of business
In all three of the states have men.
toned. Why do say that? Under
the treaty with Cuba We have 40
per cent preferential rate on the Gu
ban market, and the duty on rice in
Cuba Is more than cents pound.
With 40 per cent advantage on that
market we have never Yet been able
to ship from this country rs much as
a thousand sacks Of rice to Cuba pc
year.
We are selling now In Porto R'co
one.fifth of the entire production o.
rice in the United States. and Of that
grade that is not consumed in this
country. This proposes to cut the
duty 80 per cent. II We can MT