Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-04-02
LOOK into SUGAR AGAIN

Many in Hawaiihaye been under the inrprt
sion that Cuban sugar interests have been L
hind the movement for free sugar. Perha]
some of them have been helping on the redu
when compared with American beet and cal
sugar. f
1t appears, however, that not all of the {
ban producers are in favor of the full-fledg'
free sugar program that is now under way.
letter to the New York Journal of CONNER
from II. B. Hawley, president of the Cuba
american Sugar Company, shows that at lea
one very large Cuban interest has no desire
see the American sugar industry destroyed
order that non American producers may make
little more money. Mr.. Hawley's letter, a
dressed to the editor of the Journal of Con
merce, reads as follows:
Sir: 4 protest against recent article in its
tirety as misleading in every point. There is no
doubt of the papers good faith, but intelligent
and responsible journal should be reasonably sure of
the facts before presenting them to its confding
readers.
/. is unimportant discuss the question of neces-
sary, revenues; that is for the Government to
slider and decide, and is matter of policy but
for more than century of our national life, sugar
has borne its proportion Of the nations expense and
today, under this influence, sugar production has
grown until all our needs are provided in and about
our own shores, and at prices within the reach, of
the humblest consumer What you propose
under the bill adopted by the last Congress is to
destroy the of rs per cent of this supply
large area OF our country and our countrys posses
sions. -~@ : III -. $3.50
In dealing with this matter-speaEingIf flor your in
formants-you say they assert that>the admnistra-
ton cannot afford to take backward step and
acknowledge itself in the wrong after it has SO
cfrap c1yf for sc
is view of life is il not? If the administration
be shown that under misnformaton and mis-
apprehension Of the effects OF the free theory"
it will destroy investments exceeding hundred mil
lion dollars and abandons the production of over
100000 tons of sugar the present source of sup
plies 1t is probable that the administration would
reconsider its action The proof of the situation that
will follow Immediately the adoption of free sugar
is at hand and incontroyertible by authoritative
witness. You say: II ~
.More important than this is the information re-
ceiyed here to the effect that the Government has
been advised that the Louisiana sugar industry is in
satisfactory condition and has fear of the stu
alton which it will have to face under the free
sugar system. This information was conveyed to
Secretary MeAdoo during his recent visit to New
Orleans, when it was positively stated to him that
the business was in good condition and expected to
be So. 9 = 81. r.
cannot controvert the fact that the statement was
made to Secretary MeAdoo but the statement was
not authentic--it is not true The cane industry in
Louisiana is parayzed and hopeless under the i'm
pending fate of free sugar schedule There is not
u
Orleans who will not promptly confirm this state
ament and give you unquestonable reasons for the
truth of It. This eliminates at least 100000 tons
s of sugar from our present annual supplies.
Every similar information, it is asserted, re-
ceived from beet growing sections. There has been
but little complaint from the of either kind
of sugar since the adoption of the tariff" On the
contrary, there has been but little else and constant
preparation the part of both cane and beet grow
for rehearing for this most important industry
before Congress and the administration itself the
moment it is opportune to present it, ....
If the present schedule is persstenty maintained
it is calculated that loss of to three hundred
thousand tons of beet sugar will follow; more than
half the output OF Porto Rico, which this last year
was 3S5 poo TONS and third to half of the pro-
duction of Hawaii. What is to replace the serious
loss in supplies? Europe Java and probably in the
end Cuba. In the meantime the American people
accustomed to sugar in abundance and at low
prices: it is today under the existing tariff the low
est food product consumed by the American people
In view of the foregoing statements, which be
confirmed from every country cited, and every
source familiar with the facts the producer con-
sumner alike to be punished, why should not the
Government re-examine this question and in the full
happiness of all concerned which embraces every
citizen and every home in our country?
Certainly there can be no good reason fC
Granting the request that the sugar situatio
shall again be canvassed on the basis of fac
and presentday conditions If we are correct
the Washington administration is NJ
to a consideration of uncOlort
facts. 49,
Some of the critics who say to Mr.. Wilso