The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-03-29
SUGAR HANFAnOk
COMPANIES FACING
fW8tEADER4EA
Everything Is vb Except Sugar
and That Price Mag Been :
Fully Stabilized
: I. DOUBLED since war
Taxes Must Be Added TO other
costs AID edbA And Porto
Rico Have Best 81 Il

.1H 1a-Alsils ~ 2i-A-4 = - .flfAA.t
Indications grow that this viii be 4
t.Iean year .. fot the sugar producer,
OF the Islands and that, unless some
relief is extended to them 1919 will
be even isansr, That Selief might
come ii the shape Of a higher price
fixed BY the shsar eon%ission or IT
might come, IN part, through lower
freight rates The feeling is glowing
that HAWAII, together With LShisiana
is being disseminated against In favor
OF the Cuban and the Porto RieSu
growers s,k NJ ~ la. -, !
IS %ESerything has gone up but 81
easn j. the way that seSsssl men
prominent in the sugar industry have
recently, expressed their view Of the
situation, and they give figures to
unpieasn. surprises
s when the 1918 costs Of production
are given but q win be found that
sestSs on al average are About fifty
percent higher than they we're In the
prewar period. Practically everything
that Is required ID higher While the
bonus will, not Sc 90 large a. last
yrAr the Images paid win be- far in, ex,
ssss Gs s. ne RTsyaslsf sssS.s
ID the Bohas Viii not, however, make
un,feS the ineEeaseaIin freiRhts, Ca r.
This item Of freights alsne ia large.
gFos sthl Ffnneis SEQ the rate, with the
bin % hiding TAX added Is more than
double that Of last 5eaf. A. to New
York shipments the rate. IA sin great,
~ and 1T il not sertain,that II will
nor be two and q KaIf timex as great
~ it was last. year, II II goss from
San Francisco 1t win be. Then IL was
20 9 ton Wide BY steamer Ana BY rail
Il viii be 92a63s In other words the
freight to New York ia. more than d
cent a pound 81 sugar. ~ ".r'ts5f ,4
Bags Afs nov more than three times
as high - they were i'm the pre.war
period. Fertilizer has been more Than
noubied, The same ii true WITH rolled
BARLEY for stock food and With fuel
ole Lumbar prices have scared also.
SO IL il, all the way along the line It
"a easy 10 see how costs have Increased
from forty 10 fifty perGeht, Ana some.
tines even morn, during the war period,
Eaxea Must BE Added ~ lr<t7. ,l,,
And this does not include taxes. onfe
piantation company has figured that
It's war taxes viii amount TO $40 d ton.
Anpther figures the war taxes eyed
higher. There Il d cent a pound tai
Cd its output One company will pay
jn federal taxes this year tenntifhSs
as much as its federal taxes paid last
year amounted to. IN the face, 81 sneh
stSk ESring figures there can be Only
one conclusion. dividends viii have to
be, drasfically cut ~
THE 1911 crop lid not feel the Id
Vance In costs as win THIS yeafps er6t.
II was plantedtih ,l9l5+ The, fertilizer
bought that year helped IN Its growtA.
The oil bought that year helped \ "
puihn tthe water for irrigation. The
1915 labor costs we're lower a. IN,
q This years crop was planted In 1915
when costs were not 50 high as In 1917
and 30 next year the costa win BE, even
higher than this for it viii have requir.
cd FOR its growth Two years Of high
costs = ,tENF.. s',f-y . ~ = y ~ 49,
Territorial taxes are also higher and
these the companies must meet. V0Iun.
tapy contributions 20 the Red Cross
hte being made by most Of the CON.
panies. The outGb, taking everything
intg reconsideration, has grown 10 enor.
nous proportions - .'' =.
Ifobe n KenAotS n
Higher prices for raw sugar would
seem to be. the, only out for the pro
dnceTs 81 the Territory. " Lower freight
rates. 4 kettoIatiuha Of the 0id fAtss..
would help some hut not enough. Z 1T
may be urged thati-H the companies
earn less they win have smaller. taxes
" pay, TEre. but that will not help
the stoekholder The costs are away
upf now r -: ., ..1a. .,,gas
:, Before the fixing, Of sugar prices
Hawaii had The benefit Of q, protective
tAriR, Then elk cent sugar for Hawaii
tpeapt hye cent sugar for Cuba. Nov
Cuba tgets six cent Spgar while Hawaii
pays the added freight rates, tie added
era excess piofits taxes cuba has III
thu best Of it under the new state Of
X HaNaiian planters are rot pppatrio-
Ne. They are trying 10, do their par.
and want 10 do 1t, but uasy are more
and more clearly seeing, though ~ yet
they bear 4 generally in silence ~
gerry, dpietly, that the ,Cubap and the
Porto Risah growers. have ~ the hest
on II under tho new. regime. = IN
TbeEs ~ truth in the assertion that
everything u higher except sugar.
sE.s r-r- " 3 >. ~--r-, N. = u.s.
II. II. Lhwrie. agent for the shipping
board ON Kauai, Recently submitted TO
Aha kna.1 = s.rs,,.naat -. AZ &C., !. -, :.