The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1914-07-21
Wiping Out the Work Of Hun
bred Years, Says Louisiana
Sugar Journal.

1.-THE crime of the century, is what
the Louisiana Planter editorially
calls the Wilson policy of free sugar,
inasmuch as the Underwood tariff leg
islation is now destroying the work of
a century in "wiping off the face Of
the States of the American Union our
great domestic sugar industry The
Planter says: -..aH .sa' d. ~. I,
When President Mckinley hurried.
~ accepted into the American Union
the Hawaiian Territory on the request
of the few white people living in Ha.
wall, his motives were questioned and
thought to be either reckless, or that
his action was insuffieiently considered
Later on, when the Spanish war was
impending and active negotiations
were going on with Spain, Mr.. Me-
Kinley's opponents charged him with
having been unduly ineonsiderate of
the rights of Spain at that time and to
have permitted the United States to
be carried into war with Spain In a
manner unfair to Spain and very much
as though an effort was made in the
direction Of actual conquest. Anyway,
we find that we now have the Philip.
pines and Porto Rico on our hands as
the result of that war, and very many
competent people believe that the
United States would have been better
off without them. Il I...&.. ..s
"When Mr., Roosevelt, anxious to
secure q route across the lsthmus of
Panama, found his negotiations with
the Republic of Colombia difficult, no
found the state of Panama willing to
seeede. II is presumed that he did not
promote the secession of Panama and
its revolt from the control of the Co.
lombian government. Anyway, he
finally secured the Panama Canal Zone,
now occupied by the United States us
the route for the great Panama Canal,
That many persons doubted the pro.
priety of President Roosevclt's action
in that matter is evidenced by the
fact that the present administration
Is endeavoring to console the Republic
of Colombia by treaty giving that
Republic certain rights in the canal
and by the payment of q sum, stated
to be about twenty-five millions of dol.
lars. .s ..-'7 ~. ~.
"These mistakes of the administra-
tons cited are thought by many 10
have done the United States more in
jury than it has ever experienced in
any other way since the organization
of the American Republic. Now, an,
other, this administration, that Is en-.
deayoring to palliate the injury that
the United States may have done to
the Republic Of Colombia by the sum
mary seizure of the Panama Canal
Zone, this same administration has in
sisted upon and has effected legislation
that is wiping off tho face Of the States
of the American Union our great do.
nestle sugar industry, one In which the
state of Louisiana has been engaged
for more than a hundred years, in
which II has invested directly and in
directly for many years fully onehalf
the entire capital of the State and an
| industry which has also occupied di.
rectly or indirectly one-half the people
of the State. The Underwood Tariff
Bill and the legislation leading TO free
sugar is thus, destroying the work OF
century and we may fairly term il the
chief crime Of that century. There
may be reasons lying behind it all, but
no where in the history of the world
do we read of any such devastation re,
sulting among highly civilized, Guilt
yated people as this disastrous legis
lation has developed in our own State
of Louisiana which now lies PROSTATE
endeayoring in some way to gather to
gether its forces and to rehabilitate it
self along new lines, If such thing be
possible. " + ..... ,,.....