The Hawaiian gazette., 1914-10-09
SHIP SUGAR IN BULK
ADVICE OF PLANTER
lutte Bag Shortage Suggests
Ship Sugar Like
.l Grain

It, TRAIN
"There is reported scar,ity Of sugar
bags for raw sugar, says the Louis
lana Planter. 'sTbe supply Of iute for
the manufacture Of sugar bags comes
from the East Indies as docs also the
] jute for cotton bagging. The cloth for
bagging comes largely from Dundee,
Scotland Jute sugar Rags made 20
hold about 800 pounds o. % t 70 sugar
ARE ordinarily bought new for Cuba,
and when filled with sugar and sold 70
reiners the bags become second hand
and are later sold to the Louisiana
] planters for use second time.
"To provide for this thu bag dealers
put them in order after they have been
4 washed, and those 30 handled are about
as good as new. These bags, old aud 4
lnew, are now reported as doubled in
price. This lfings up an econOmia
problem already solved by the grain
men. An grain was once sold in sacks
Of two TO two and one-half bushels
capacity each.
"a ''California established centali or 100
pound bags as their standard, and now
IN the Dakotas, when wheat Is thresh-
ed In the fields where grown, the clean
, wheat runs from tho machine into the
tight body Of large wheat wagon,
, which when fun, Is driven TO the near
est public grain elevator and there :.
graded and received by running the
grain into scale hopper. Thus the
least possible expense Is incurred. AS
an economic problem, why not handle
: sugars this wayl'
and enlarged upon by the mainland
! newspapers, as a news item and edi.
! torially.
"If raw sugar sells at or around six
!, cents during 1915 the cost Of produce
? ton will be over $75 per ton, instead
the corporations and By individual
shareholders to the United s -
I treasury.
: THAT statement Of the profits
y we would make is unfair because ., Cd.
Y one-sided, = Br. Bishop said 81
sumes lowest costs with highest ~.
and abnormal profits. Every man &a
e has any interest in, or anything
4 with, sugar production. transport
land marketing, benefits from hIgnl
II prices. The profits are distributed and
e do not 60 simply 70 shareholders who
4 own the eanital stock.
. Of $45. When sugar prices are high,
all plantation costs are high.
y Passing Prosperity Around
! A \. ID
u GA six-eent average price for the
!. 1915 crop would increase the wages of
y all plantation laborers in Hawaii at
" least fifty per cent. II would increase
~ the prices paid to the growers Of canc
~ City to sixty per cent. IL would in
y crease Insurance premiums, freight
= rates, brokers commissions, and all
J. other marketing costs. II would vast
Z ~ increase the income taxes paid by
war Interrupts Trade
~ nAnother point, = Mr. Bishop added.
rfwhen the European war commenced
England went into the open market
and bought one million tons Of sugar TO
secure her people against the lack Of
this necessary food product during the
continuance of the struggle. These
abnormal purchases withdrew sugar
from the commercial storehouse Of the
world and created an artificial but very
lieal shortage. IL was this sudden with
drawal of sugar that caused the alb
\ rupt rise in prices,
7 z" Nevertheless, the mainland press
{ thave published many articles in similar
vein TO the following from the San Jose
, Mercury, which says, THE spectaeulaI
! advance in the price of sugar from
! $3.50 to $3.50 per 100 pounds inside OF
ten days was piece Of monumental
"a commercial Juggling that could not fail
to attract attention,
A 80 Sugar was the one commodity
4 that scared in price far above all 9th
ers. IL was such bold attempt TO flel
. money from the pockets of the people
under false pretenses that it hastened
, the beginning of an inquiry by the de
II lpartm0nt of Justice at Washington in
' to the methods of the sehemers who arr
raising prices on food commodities gen
y orally. In several lines Of trade price,
2 were advanced ten per cent, or possibl,
y trifle more, but sugar was advance,
a sixty-six per cent.
d 'fThis article goes on to say that tn
q refiners blame the iobbers, but Their
g can be no doubt that there is an abnn
y dance Of sugar ia the world still I'm
v used, probably millions Of tons OF il
- and there is equally no doubt that tn
81 iereat sugar producing localities of tn
q world were not in the least affected o
nt controlled by the European war.
q a... No Sugar Corner
u. '"These writers blame the Hawaiian
.p lugar plauters,n Mr. Bishop said
We "There are insinuations Of efforts 4
y. control supplies. Tho Hawaiian plant
~ ers are under contract 20 deliver thei
nv sugar 20 market as fast as IL is mad
rfs Under their present selling contract
lc- they cannot hold back or store thel
rs product, or attempt To influence price
~ or control supplies.
} rive twelfths OF the world : suppl
Ut Of sugar is withdrawn from tho ope
aP market, being produced BY, or owne
go aud stored within the coniines Of N
l ,,s countries now at war. Under these col
~ ditiona il Is absurd for the consumed
ess Of sugar 20 assume that the remaiuin
"a. 10 - b. a a