Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-01-24

stimulus afforded by the government,
are TO be threatened with destruction.
What are their owners to do to save
themselves?
| The answer is clear. Factories and
planters must find out how TO keep
going and make a profit, or they must
collapse. Can they do It? We think
they can. but it will take time, and
money, and. above all, energy ca.
tpacity. good management, and deter
mination. There is now no longer any
| incentive to them to turn out only
raw sugar The beetrcot factories
even now turn out all their sugar IN
| the form of white granulated-the
kind of refined sugar most popular in
the United States. Mauritius, years
ago, began to turn out white sugar
direct from the cane juice. Java IN
recent years has done the same with
conspicuous success. Mr.. Prinsen Geer-
ligs has told US exactly how it is done,
| and now we have a beautiful book on
the subject which gives us still fur
ther information. Here we have the
parting of the ways and the opening
of a new era in sugar production The
fatuous action of the American gov
eminent win give it a great impetus.
The threatened sugar industries will
jump, at this new idea of producing
white sugar direct from the cane
juice. They see their opportunity At
very little extra cost of production
they can turn out excellent dry white
lgranulated sugar, pack it in handy
retail qualities, and distribute it to
the United States consumers. Then
the New York refners will be sorry
they spoke. ..,........... ~.
This production of refined sugar
direct from the Juice is no new thing
as far as the industry of beetroot
sugar is concerned. More. than 40
years ago we saw loaf sugar being
turned out in a German factory, Then
came Eugen Langen with his new
process of making loaf sugar in the
form of cubes. He turned them out
not only in his refinery in Cologne,
but also in his beetroot sugar. factory
at Elsderf. Now we are told by the
Java ,experts-the greatest and most
I reliable authority on cane sugar pro-
duction-that what has been done
with beetroot juice can be done also
with cane juice Large quantities of
refined sugar-in fact great portion
of the Java crop-are now being
shipped to the Indian market! and
we are proud to add that our own col
| ony Of Mauritius takes very good
second place in this supply of excel.
lent refined sugar to India.
| The Threatened American sugar in.
dustries must inevitably adopt this
| remedy for their disease: and they
| must of course couple with it every
| possible scheme for reducing the cost
| Of growing and producing their sugar.
| They will have a formidable competi-
tor in the Cuban planter, who will
probably follow suit now that he is
no longer compelled to confne HIM
self to raw sugar manufacture. The
monster factories in Cuba, with all
the latest improvements, are capable
of turning out a very superior article
Dry, white granulated sugar will keep
and need not be thrown on to over
stocked markets. The present knock
ing down of prices during crop time
can, therefore. be avoided
All this is sufficiently alarming for
the American refiners, but the new
competition cannot be confined to the
United States but must Inevitably af-
feet sugar refining interests in all
quarters. British refinefs have al
ready had 80 years bitter experience
of foreign competition; but they have
come cut of it triumphant They
used to make all the refined sugars
consumed in the United Kingdom, but
now they have to be content to see
100000 tons Of foreign refined import
ed every year. They will probably
hold their own in the future even if
the new idea of making white sugar
from the cane juice should be carried
out on large scale Whether the
same can be said of sugar refining in
ether parts of the world is doubtful.
Twenty years hence our readers may
accidentally turn to these prognosti-
cations and be interested to see how
true-or falSe-they were.