Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-01-06
tBy Sidney Bsliou in Facts About
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/ Sugar.
One of the most common assump
| tons Of the advocates OF free sHgaI
Is that just outside the United States
| there always existed in normal times
an abundant supply Of cheap sugar,
ready to come in at low prices II
once the tariff wall" were removed
| Nothing could he further from the
| truth. The worlds production and the
\ worlds consumption OF sugar have al
ways been 50 delicately balanced that
1 the worlds price" is as unstable as
water. and any demand on the part OF
: the United States would have newt.
ably tended to increase that price.
i Moreover, outside the United States
! the production and price OF sugar have
always been subject to artificial con-
troll TO an extent unknown TO any other
staple commodity.
Europe Helps Producers
From the beginning OF the beet
| sugar industry in Europe 1t received
governmental assistance OF every kind.
Protective tariffs were of course the
cornerstone. and TO these were added
exemptions from taxation in the early
stages, indirect bounties on exports.
and many other forms Of aid. In addi-
ton to governmental assistance the
producers and manufacturers them
selves formed kartels or pools, with
elaborate machinery, for the control of
prices.
Under the governmental stimulus
the leading European nations finally
reached the point Of producing their
own suDplies of sugar. Germany, Rus
STA, Austria-Hungary. France. Bel
giumtt and Holland became exporters.
Great Britain, the great consuming
country, was their chief customer, and
imported large quantities OF cheap
bounty fed sugar. .
Britain Discovers Error
+. From q free trade standpoint this
would seem 70 be an ideal situation as
far as Great Britain was concerned.
yet II was Great Britain who took the
first steps toward It's abolition AS an
island, she was enjoying the adyan-
tages OF the situation; as an empire
she found II intolerable. Her own cane
sugar producing colonies were being
ruined, and the sugar industry OF the
world was passing into the hands OF
her commercial rivals. - sss
After several abortiye attempts to-
reach agreements, the Brussels Con-
vention of 1902 finally concluded an
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