The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-05-28
Beneficial Cooperation

NO Think would be surprised 70 mo the United
States second in the world Competition II the war
shall long continue, be asonshed to find her first II
depends Of course not merely on what u destructivey
done yonder, but what epnsructvey done here. II
willing to lay aside passion and prejudice and
sanship TO look at things with international instead
Of parochal viewpoint to realize that effectiveness
patriotism and that ineciency is unpatriotic; we
ready to give up inertia and take step forward out
Of ourselves to the help Of others; we remember that
comerce is mutual exchange to mutual benefit and not
species OF industrial war; IL learn the lesson
tRa Science mst 70 anes u industry X vs. arr u
win; IL these things can be DONE see no reason why,
with our Resources and intelligence and Organization We
may not become the first among the world trading
nations. ,s tt<Ng lts lgssE. vi III
If the secretary of commerce is speaking for the
administration, his utterance will be regarded with
satisfaction, and in no place with greater satis2
faction than in Hawaii. II the administration is
in favor Of beneftent trusts for the purpose of
allowing Americans to meet the competition
abroad, there should not be any objection to legi-
innate cooperation among Americans to meet for
eign competition at home, nor steps to protect the
home market for legitimate home producers
One fthe objections that have been raised con-
corning the Hawaiian sugar industry is that the
industry Is carried on by large units. Such OBJ
lection Secretary Red6eld meets by pointing out
that the larger future of+American industry de-
ponds upon the general carrying out Of a business
policy along the very line OF what is being carried
out constructvely here. None familiar with the
HAWAIIAN sugar INDUSTRY VIII ueHy that
tive cooperation has created it. +. -.- -,
Hawaiian workmen are well paid, the wage
scale being equal to the best paid IN any part of
the. world to tropical agricultural laborers while
science has been applied to industry in a greater
degree than in any other corner of the globe, bar
none. . + T. ~ p .Stf-. g.
1t is essential that American manufacturers
Iseize the present-day opportunity to go into the
markets OF the world with their products. 1t is
equally essential that American manufacturers be
allowed an equal opportunity to do business in
their own country. Sugar manufacturers abroad
are not only allowed to cooperate, but are encour-
aged in it. Bounties paid upon exports Of
sugar in some instances; subsidized shipping
transports some of it to the shores of the United
States.
| American sugar growers ask only that their sell
ing market at home be protected equally with their
purchasing market
| 1t must not be supposed that disposition exists
upon the part of the Hawaiian sugar growers for
the formation of anything resembling trust, or
that. the Hawaiian planters either a part Of
or subsidiary branch of the so-called Sugar
Trust, the refners Hawaiian cooperation con-
sists in working together scientifically for the
support of an experiment station, for the support
of labor bureau, for the exchange of data be-
tween managers, between engineers and between
sugar chemists, that all may profit from the dis
coveries Of each A central marketing bureau
places the greater part of the raw sugar output,
but has nothing to say regarding the selling price,
which is fixed in the worlds market.
! When a secretary of the cabinet advocates CO.
operation, the application of science to industry
the application Of the knowledge that we'll paid
labor is the cheapest producer and when the chair
man of the federal trade commission advocates
strong combinations for the advantages of Amer
the Hawaiian planters good work should be rec
ognized. Theirs is cooperation for production,
not for the curtaiment of output and the fixing Of
prices; their work is such as Secretary Redheld
places before the nation the ideal to be attained.
There is much to be considered also, in the con-
cession OF Chairman Davis of the federal trade
commission that the cartels and trade combina-
tiOns in Europe control prices and parcel out ter
ritory. If this be so, and we know it is how can
he square it with the Democratic doctrine of free
trade, and theory that the consumer in the Uni
ted States will benefit to the extent of the entire
amount of the duty removed?
! The statement made by protectionists, when the
Democrats were removing duties, was that the
combinations in Europe so well organized and
SO strong that under free trade conditions they
will be the ones to say what prices the American
consumer shall pay. Davis now confirms this.
Regarding sugar, and the effect Of free trade
upon the price thereof Senator Lodge put it very
we'll in speech in 1912 He said
With these facts before us, nothing be clearer
than that if abolish duties shall be left
at the mercy of the sgnatores to the Brussels ConVen
ton At the present time the United States is
tonal territory. The signatoes have nothing do in
order to get control of the American market except
declare that the United States Is conventional territory
and thereby permit Russia, which possesses great
plus of sugar and other eetsugar producing countries
to pour their oversuPpy into the United States at any
price they please One year Of that process would
of
NEGLIGIBLE quantity. Having tins destroyad