Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-08-01

cess amounting TO approximately 81
100000. With free trade on sugar this
| country's imports will increase some
$40.000.o00 annually. These ilcreas-
ed imports will come no matter what
We think. II will not be psychologi-
cal. The imports will come In and
gold will go out TO pay for the same.
| Our Democratic friends have al.
ways claimed that our domestic SUI
! gar industry. especially beet sugar,
Is dollhouse industry, and, IN fact,
II has been claimed there is not suf-
ficient soil adapted for the success
full growing of beets in the United
States TO warrant the establishment
of enough beet-sugar factories to pro-
duce quantity of sugar equal to our
consumption.
When Mr.. Wilson was the secretary
Of agriculture, he made a report that
| his department had made thorough
tests of soils. in the United States and
determined that there is 274,00O, 900
acres of land in the United States
as we'll adapted to the growing of
beets as the soil on which sugar
beets are now grown in the state Of
Michigan. and that IL a crop, such
| as was produced in the state of Mi
chigan for 1911. was harvested from
this 274,000,000 acres of land, that
one-crop of sugar would exceed in
quantity all the sugar used by all
| the people of the world since the
birth of our Saviour. A crop of beets
| from 100000 acres of land in the
/ United States would furnish an an
nual supply of sugar to all the peo-
| pie of the world. In other words,
would produce a quantity of sugar
equal to the worlds annual produc-
ton.
| Is it not matter Of significance
to find the representatives of the re-
filming industries before the Hardwick
sugar Investigating committee and
| the committee on ways and means,
when the tariff bill was up for con-
sideration, advocating free sugar, and
later. find the paid representative of
the refining institutions, Frank c..
Lowry, writing a part of the Demo
cratic Campaign Textbook for the
year of 1912, the celebrated so-called
I Farmers Sugar Bowl" setting forth
gross misrepresentation as to the
benefit to be derived by the consum-
ers under free trade on sugar; and
also to find that two of the Spreckels
family engaged in the refining of SUI
gar, one at San Francisco and the
other at New York, supporting the
Democratic party in the campaign of
1912 not only by personal efforts, but
1t is reported, by contributing large
sums of money for the cam
paign Of 1912, while at the same
time a suit was pending, brought
by the government in the fed
eral court for the southern district
of New York against the Federal
Sugar Refining Co., of which one of
the Spreckels is president, for a claim
of $119,080.9S principal, representing
unpaid duties on importations of raw
sugar entered at the port Of New York
BY the defendants, and that suit Is
still pending and unproseeuted? This
suit was begun against the Federal
Sugar Co. under Republican admin
istration. 1t was one of several suits
brought against the importers Of for
eign raw sugar, and some of the Off
Gals of one OF the refining companies,
believe, are now serving terms in
the penitentiary for fraudulent under.
weighing and undervaluations or 9TH
er frauds in connection with the i'm
pOrtation of foreign raw sugars, for
which the Arbuckles and the Ameri-
can Sugar Refining Cos. have paid up.
ward of $3,000.000 in fines. All these
suits, If | am correctly informed,
have been prosecuted to completion,
with the single exception of the suit
against the Federal Sugar Refining
Co. above referred to.
+ We are now sending abroad about
500. 100000 annually to purchase for.
eign sugar to be refined by the great
Sugar Trust to supply us with our con-
sumption of sugar in addition to that
produced by our domestic beet and
cane factories. This money goes
abroad and employs labor in foreign
lands, where as If kept at home it
would furnish very large amount of
employment to laborers in the United
States ...-.. II
Our laborers In the United States
employed in the great refineries
receive in wages not to exceed 40
cents for each 100 pounds Of raw
sugar refined, while IL that sugar was
produced in the beet and cane factor
les Of this country labor would receive
eight times that sum, or, in other
words, eight laborers would be en-
ployed in the sugar industry of this
country II we produced at home all
the sugar we consume for every one
laborer employed by the Sugar Trust
engaged in refining imported raws
However, that is a system or policy to
which our Democratic friends seem
unalterably opposed. They propose to
completely destroy the domestic in
dustry and transfer the labor abroad.
During six months of the year, when
there is no domestic beet sugar on the
market, imported raw sugar is refined
as follows:
The Federal Sugar Refining Co.
produces 63 per cent of our consump-
ton E-Es
The Warner Sugar Refining Co. pro-