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Show The S&ndwich Islands, All over tho CBt tlm feeling runs! high against showing any moro favors to the Sandw ich Islunds. The free sugar I from there is doing a vast amount of damage to the farmers and is a great obsticlo in (he way of beet sugar development. The great sugar trust iB moving heaven and earth to blind the people and oon.inuo this evil which means so much .money to them. Speaking Speak-ing on tho ijubjeer. John L. Howaul of the Alameda eugai company ?a) s : ' In 1875 tho Hawaiian Islands raised 10,000 tons of sugar; iu 1800 it exported 227.000 tons. In 1875 no native sugar was made on the Paoilio coast. In 1897 Califorina will alone produce upwaids of 50,000 tons, while the whole consumption con-sumption is but 75,0.00 tons. There will icmaiii therefore a scant 26,000 tons to bo supplied and this balance will be more than supplied iu 1808 by new factories now in actual con struction. The population of the Eight Hawaiian Islands numbers 100,020, and of these about 3,500 aro frpm America. "This; indicates the class of people who aro being be-ing favored at the expenso of tho white farmers of California," and for which heterogeneous population, 2,100 utiles awav. these sugar monopolists are now seeking annexation in order lo accomplish ac-complish tlio perpetuation of thoir privileges. Among disinterested wiU informed people in Pan Fiancisce theie isaw-U gronnded belief that the lecent attempt to create excitement ovc Japanese naval f ijtfcryentidn in Hawaii is only (atiUier cMevj&scheiiio of these would be lIliiwaiianlSHyaSilkln noxatiouists, mWJsurobiily obpjoseilto,. u reciprocity f most K.vortd nation clause," hut wo do, not ee haw othec sugar-producing nations of tho tirst class and thoir di pr-Midvnrii s may not justly feel aggrieved ag-grieved if wo grant n total exemption, from tfugni. Is the name Hawaii a fetich that no duty must bo placed upon itfl prod net? Weie it not better to grant sugar bounty to somo other country with whom our trade relations aro undeniab-'y undeniab-'y reciprocal, rather than to Hawaij wl.eio tr.ido ruhitious aro so dispro-portioned dispro-portioned . Tno people of tho United Statc3aie practically paying to Hawaiian eugar-planteiu eugar-planteiu n bounty of $30.00 porton, when in 1801 they withdrew the same from theii domefitic sugar producers and broke faith with their own citizens. The eight leading sugar producing nations of Europe piotecfc their homo iarketd for their native industry to the extent of from 3 0-10 to 8 88-100 cents per p g.m. Tho Amrir-an sugar producor asks barely half this protection bo granted and no unduo favoritism ho shown to a ly As'atie or other conti act-labor product pro-duct and anew eia will dun n upon America. Amnio profitable ciop than any we now raise will bo found for 1,500,000 acres of la,"l, and diiect employment at good waues created for at least 200,000 American workmen while allied industries indus-tries iu uory walk of life, will receive-new receive-new impetus and upwiudsof 100,OUO,000 bo yearly Raved to tho National exchequer. ' aii i ii i i i |