The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1913-08-22
RETIRING PRESIDENT PAINTS.
A DARK OUTLOOK FOR SUGAR.
Annual Report of Head of Cham.
Der Of Commerce Sees Siren.
uous Times for Sugar Producers
in View of Tariff and Low
Prices; Otherwise Conditions
Are Not Discouraging.
(From Thursday Advcrtiser)

llIeu dt IitSiutHl ol inc cHunlucT VI
commerce, presented pessimistie out
look over the sugar and industrial sit
uation in Hawaii, in his annual report,
measured by the impending tariff reduc-
ton proposed by congress.
He declared that it is an old saying
that when reserves occur, they are apt
to become epidemic and when we find
ourselves facing three startling pos
sibilities, including the present tariff
situation, lower prices for sugar than
have prevailed for a decade, and short
crops due to the prolonged drought of
last season, the future indeed has a
pessmistic hue.
Says Courage Is Needed.
=" AS matter of history" said Mr..
Bishop, sit is proper to record that
the value of our industrial securities
have fallen off certainly thirty per cent
as compared with a year ago, due to
the causes enumerated, yet ] am anX-
ious not to make this report re-
counting of our woes and trials, but
rather to emphasize the need of nerve
and courage, as no community ever
emerged from siege of rcverscs by
liHS " LAMENTATIONS anu QUIET uNb-
Stcrcal demonstrations.
cit must be admitted that we are
commercially facing grave crisis
probably the greatest crisis of Hawaii
industrially--and it is perhaps difficult,
if not impossible, to see our way
through the gloom, as there appears to
be but little that is hopeful in the
outlook, so far as tariff protection is
concerned to our main industry. We
must, therefore, help ourselves and go
to the task with all the courage and
determination that we can summon.
'These remarks may be regarded as
platitudes that are pleasant sounding to
the ear, yet not of any specific value
of a remedial character in dealing with
the situation of today. Nevertheless,
to counsel courage, activity and strict
economy, can but be sound advice, as
anyi9 other course means abandonment
of Our own cause and an admission of
our own inability to cope with the prop
lens that will consume us, if we fail
to graphic with our adversary, no mat
ter how formidable.
Free Sugar Outlook.
"At the time of writing this report
the tariff lsws arc still in course of
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n tu,onty-e,o nor cont rodr.tion ;n Tho
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to,,o,ha, ,,fth nrn,,;s;on nI,o;nr srcor
~ enoo lie. IN IoIr III 6aoo1no
Law, and IL ,r,,st thoroforo ho conceal
t., " aeSaT,od ne nrohaIIo tbo+ lo,S nr;cas
+or s,Tnr viii nroyaiI in IoI4 and This
IL fnrther omnh.siged NV tbn renortod
prospect of a very large worlds cfor
for that year also What may happen
in the interim of three years before
the free list provision takes effect, nc
man can foretell. 1t will be a period
of suspense and anxiety in Hawaii, and
with the odds against us, but it will
certainly be futile for us to wear our
selves out with worry meanwhile. Bet
ter hopeful view, as much can hap
pen to turn the tide from us, and oul
energy may well be stored up for work
rather than worry. The sugar industry
is so abnormally the main spring OF
our commercial existence in Hawai-
that any disaster threatening 1t, is o.
community gravity. Hence, 1t is tha'
the tone OF my general remarks thu'
1ar nag dealt with the sugar situa
ton as ahected by the causes enumer
4. ated.
nave no hesieahey IN h,ahinS gen
erai statonent mat the retali business
IN ila"aii curing the yast year ma
pesh eNceileht' ana IN many INES th'
volu"io OF pHsihcss mas peen slea'e
th"h ever pe t,.a tourist trPei am
the larse ini,it"ry Popuihtion may -
.teu'leu ~ 'ne Two on ga ioS'ofs II
tnis ues1rnoio s'"te u "ii'iis'
Tells of Campaign.
Mr. Bishops report gives detailc
account of the sugar tariff campaig
instituted at Washington under the di
rection of George H. carter. lie state
That 1t looked as II the obJectionabl
tariff bill would pass. But, as far a
Hawaii Is concerned, the foundatio
mas been laid for future contest h
says, 'plans for which are now bein
discussed. There apears to be groun
Tor hoping that before the free suga