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Show SUGAR AND THE PHILIPPINES. A correspondent discusses the sugar question in the New York Tribune. He points out that the United States last year consumed 2,864,013 tons of sugar. Of this amount one-fifth was produced at home, that is in the United States proper. Hawaii" and Porto Rico sent in another one-fifth. Cuba two-fifths, two-fifths, and the other one-fifth came from the rest of the sugar producing world. In the last one-fifth the Philippines shipped us 25,283,929 pounds, or .4 of 1 per cent of our total consumption. This correspondent thinks it was extravagant and illogical to assert that a maintenance tax on Philippine sugar equal to 75 per cent of the Dingley rate was essential for the preservation' of our domestic domes-tic sugar in this country. And that is the way it is looked at by a great many people ever 6ince the tariff was up on Philippine sugar. The Philippines belong to the United States; they are either a part of the United States' territory or. they are not; if they are not, then the United States has no business there. If they are, then they are a dependency to the United States and ought to have the same trqat- ment that Hawaii has. Occasionally we see a family where one boy is sent to . college and has all the luxury and caresses of a home, while another boy does the work. It seems in our country that Hawaii is the petted child and there is nothing for the Philippines. Philip-pines. It would be more honorable to sell the islands to Holland. Holland has a lot of islands near by and she is treating the people on these islands fairly. It would be more honorable to sell the Philippines Philip-pines to a power like that than to retain our hold upon them and hold up the people in legislation, even when paying foreigners $125,000,000 for sugar. |