Show A SWEET SUBJECT sandwich sugar stirs up sarifan strife in new now york by W V U telegraph Teles raph to the herald NEW april 21 the sugar interests of the city are excited which the sun explains by the following lowine fol details tho the latest pacific mail steamship arriving in this port brought a small quantity of hawaiian an sugar r th the first of this particular class ofa of nominally raw material to reach this market there can bo be no question of admitting admi ting this lot of sugar free of duty forit for it hag has been so admitted in san francisco Frand but its coming nevertheless awakens very lively interest amon among su sugar garmen men not simply because of tu the curiosity about its grade which is expected to bo be illustrative of the character of a vastly greater quantity now n ow afloat and bound here direct from the sandwich islands but for the reason that it is regarded as the first showing of the cloud which if the present reciprocity cip rocity treaty with those islands isla lids is maintained must buic quickly dy overshadow and have a most pernicious influence upon othor other sugar interests in in ibis this than those of one ring of cal ivorra speculators known as claua claus ckles combination pre the lie sun then gives the history of the treaty and a narrative of f how it baa has operated since and enas with interviews ter views with several new now york sugar re finers nera tho the gist of the letter is as SuMo subjoined sub joined ined Spro ckles has driven eastern drefin ers era out of denver and many ether other places 31 laces on this ride side of tho the rocky mountains with his duty free eo so called sandwich islands sugar lie ile has made enormous profits b by the several advantages be he enjoys an fn r n his monopoly for ho be has not cheapened bis his refined refined products any mo more re than a in mere er fraction of a cent below the new york prices and freight which was necessary to hold the market when granulated sugar ten cents in ir k new york which would woul d have made it twelve cents in wit with lithe tho freight added he soldat sold at twelve cents nominally but ut actually with an allowance off of one quarter of a cent on condition of the buyers agreement to uso use no eastern sugars that teat was done to keep the trade under the possibility of eastern competition and in doing that his advantage was still 25 cents per paun poun deven supposing that lie only used in refining low gr grade ade sugars the duty on which would V ul d average ZO 50 cents per pound ashe As he extends his business eastwardly cast ho lie makes such reduction as to underbid eastern medium regardless gard less of discriminating against his buyers in october last for instance e when he was selling granulated sugar to san francisco local buyers at 11 he lie eold sold the same grade to denver buyers at cents without freight thus making 17 17 per pound difference against again at home buyers and a denver m man in buying at that could lay sugar down in his own store at just one ne quarter of cent per pound less than eastern buyers could deliver it to him but I dont suppose theres there aa a man in th the street estreet who do the same thing if he lie had the chance people dont care about spreckels tho the fault is I ith the treaty and that must be abrogated or it will play the deuce with us |