The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-01-12
THE PRO EcTIoN OF suGAR-A HOME. INDUSTRY


The world is going to food this year There win prob
ably be almost the usual quantity produced countries not
gagged IN war or where there no actual fighting but international
transportation is going be seriously dislocsted
There always element chance when any ship starts
on an ocean This risk increased many
when as all the chief maritime at war one with
another difficulty of getting food supplies from the producer
to the consumer has suddenly createda situation that the
worlds transportation business back hundred years
century ago there at when the
whose ships involved cutting anohers
on land Besides there the egahzed
piracy the Quitting Of pvateersmen and ships sailing
Letters Marqne authorized prey on the merchantmen Of
unendy necessarily nations with which there
listed condition of declared warbut unendy competitors
traffic ~,, la l. III = X r -le * ~.
This state of affairs compelled all nations to be
at least far the daily subsistence of their people
cerned Trade in articles Of manufacture sugar
wheat and oil 1t only paid to ship such articles would
tremendous profits should the which bore safely reach
destination merchandise obanab otherwise by the people
The international trade in oodufs is modern DEVELOPMENT
II has only been within the last fifty years that the necessity
arisen OF one producing nation feeding neghborng CONSUMING
nation which in its turn made tools and clothes
goods to supply the wants Of the producer of
materials b i$f -
This war throws both the consuming and the producing ma
tons back their internal The consuming ma
hons must become of their food supplies The pro-
ducing turn their attention to the requirements
their own citizens for manufactured goods -"
The development Of foreign trade and foreign markets
attractive field long prevails but nations like fam
HES when there serious trouble the neghbors keep
out of it and attend to their business #t .@ =
The immediate business Of the people of the United States
their StroHg hi
weak spots and vacancies that the nation may be sesucent
and sef-susaning in every part of its industrial structure
The protection of home industries of paramount necessity
The political doctrine which advocates rule of national
procedure buying the cheapest and selling in the dearest
ct all that need and all that produce crunbes
logic OF cold facts If everlasting be assured the rule
may hold But with the neghbors war; no. This war has
proved that matter how strong navy, powerful an
army or what accumulation Of boarded wealth nation
have there be but that almost without warning
1t may be plunged into fight for its very existence Is
@ 1T thus apparent that national atr has same limits
6rsfd of Of
through the development and perfection internal re-
sources in the production of food and the manufacture the tools
of civilized existence ~ 5b WRISTS A ll4g4sHg-
If the United States dependent foreign countries for
ITS sugar supplies and there domestic producers
sugar would now be selling for twenty pound instead Of
i've i the law of October 1913 placing sugar the free
after May 1916 allowed become effective strikes
important home industry and benefits single soul within
the borders and confines of the land , "qsEE. =
The domestic producers doing their provide
the worlds food supply Is business is justice fair or
y break American industry for the sake Prov
ing disproyng economic theorya The world
Every other nation recognizes the acuales situation
What will the American people gain by Gripping industry
when all the rest OF the world is'at war?