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Show MUST GET SUGAR FROM CUBA. Our Island Possessions Cannot Supply Sup-ply the Demand. Havana, uct. . The Fatria says today: to-day: There is no need to fear that the United States can get all sugar needed I by the Americans from the American j sugar islands. The most that Porto j Ilico can produce is 100,000 tons. Hawaii Ha-waii could not produce 450.000 tons. The Philippines are as yet unconquered, and, moreover, they are twenty-five days distant. Hawaii, counting- the freight by sea to San Francisco and the railroad freight to the eastern coast, could not compete in. the eastern east-ern states with Cuban sugar, which takes only five days, to reach New York. The annual consumption of sugar in the United States is not leSvS than 2,-000,000 2,-000,000 tons and it is steadily increasing. increas-ing. If we take away the 550,000 tons supplied by Hawaii and Porto Rico, there is a balance of about 1,500,000 tons-to tons-to be obtained from Louisiana and the Philippines. Louisiana supplies only 250,noo tons, which she will not be able t, increase on account of the lowering in prices caused by allowing Hawaiian and the Philippine sugar to enter the United Stales. The Americans, Ameri-cans, therefore, will be compelled to apply to Cuba. |