The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-03-17
RODERICK 3. MATHEsOr, EDITOR
Immediate Ptotectio,,


win be much lower after the war becaus
the longer the struggle lasts the closer will b
the margin entwhic Europe will be willing to sci
this or any other proddct Of which they have Il
surplus. For this reason fbe Hawaiian cane grow
ers must irnptoye production. grow more cane {
the acre at less ost bag more sugar from the sue
rose in the mill juices and above. all permit NJ
delay in their efforts to secure the final repeal o
the free sugar clause OF the Underwood Act. b
II the American people are wise they will cree
a reasonably strong protective fence to preserve
the home market for the home producer. Th'
prices of all goods only portion Of which arr
supplied at home WILL as matter Of course b.
lowered when Europe again begins to offer wha
she cam but with reasonable protection price,
need not fall to the level where they will bring
permanent disaster to the domestic producers, +s
Free trade after the war would simply benefit
the foreign producer In every one of the eoun
tries now at war tremendous economies are being
practsed by the civilian popuiation testified b,
daily correspondence from, friends and relatives
across the water. The same conditions exist fol
the majority of European families as prevailed
North and South during our Civil War Econo
my has taken the place Of luxury and extravaganc,
in the home. The men and women who are carry,
ing on the ordinary business Of life back of tho
fighting lines are denying themselves that those
who risk life for the sake Of their national ideals
at sea and in the trenches may have every comfort
and every luxury. Habits of economy thus &C,
qiiired are lasting. There will be no return tc
1913 standards of extravaganza if the struggle end:
in sl9l6, or when it ends. ~
This affects Hawaii in this way, that whatever
Europe produced before the war will again, ID
offered for sale after it is over, rigid basis
of economical and scientific production never be-
fore attempted. Europe will have goods to sell
toAmerica, because America will be in position
to pay cash, What Europe buys from will be
paid for in promises, Every European nation viii
want our gold. They must have it and to get it
to reestablish the old lines Of trade and develop
new ones they will be satisfied to take new dol
lar for an old one if need in the beginning, and
at all events a new dollar with the very smallest
Increment u If6fR 5irginei q Il SsF; 3,.;;
II is neeilesslto call attention 10 the fact that
Central Europe was before the war the greatest
sugar producing center in all the world y 1.-THE
Central European farmer has been educated I'd
sugar-Beet production for a hundred years This
crop has become necessary factor in his rotation
and is planted every three, FIVE or seven years de-
pending on the nature and requirements Of his
soils. He looks on the sugar produced by his
beet fields as clear profit and is willing to grow
this crop so long as pulp and tops are returned
to him to feed his cattle and in turn enrich his
fields for the next year Of the rotation with ANNA
wastes
In European agriculture beets never follow
beets cane follows cane in the tropics but cane
sugar is identical with beet sugar and the compe
tition of one with the other is direct and immedi
ate. Thus it is sef-evident truth that the chic
competitor of the domestic sugar producer dur
farmer who considers all the sugar in the bee
profit, whose necessities compel lin to accept the
lowest margin Of profit. and who must export hi
product the sake of getting foreign money
with which to transact his own trade.
The sugar producers of the United States will
not need to be protected against the coolie labo
OF the tropics for a decade at least. High freigh
rates and shortage of merchant vessels will dc
that, but they must build low protective tariff
wall against European competition. The time t,
do this Is now, while the war is still in progress
1t need not and should not be high or absolutel,
prohibiting tariff wall but if the American people
do NOT wish to see European economic conditions
transferred bodily and automatically this side O
the Atlantic when the war ends that wall mus
be built a.. "~. ....
Protection of home industries should not be
partizan measure, The problem Is an economic
one anu the SOONER a natiOnal taIlH DoaTu IS form
ed to remove this matter permanently from tn
political field the better it will be for those Amer
lean industries which require protection.
The day is passing when the old argument tina
the producer is one man and the consumer another
and that the American people can be split int
these two opposing classes will carry conviction
10 the minds Of voters Every man who work
with hands and brain or whose money works 70
him is both consumer and producer Those VIII
build national policies must have broader concep
ton Of the place the American commonwealth /
to occupy in the world of tomorrow. Progress