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1 Hawaiian Treaty Chicanery Clearly Presented 1 (1886)

handle is hein.ustreaties/hntycycpd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: HAWAIIAN TREATY CHICANERY CLEARLY PRESENTED. WASHINGTON, D. C., May 20, 1886. To the Honorable Senators and Representatives assembled in Congress to Legislate for the People: The writer of this, in his Analyses of the Sugar Question and Coloration Frauds, in 1879, first drew attention to the sugar-clause blunder of the Hawaiian Treaty, having also arraigned the treaty in later and numerous statements to Congress, and will therefore merely present a concise summary of evidence based upon United States Bureau of Statistics records, and of facts based on personal knowledge and investigation of Hawaiian Treaty chicanery, and the new combinations of Pacific coast monopolists to prevent its abate- ment. The Hawaiian Islands contain about 4,355,000 acres of land, 80,000 acres of which are available sugar lands; the average yield is 5 tons of sugar per acre of cane every eighteen months, or 33 tons per annum, equal to 266,000 tons of 2,240 pounds, or 595,840,000 pounds per annum; 95,000 tons of sugar were produced in 1885 against about 65,000 tons in 1884, with the prospect of 110,000 tons this year. At the present rate of increase, a product of 266,000 tons per annum will be reached in five or six years at most. In 1875 Hawaii sent us 17,888,000 pounds of sugar; in 1883, 114,132,670 pounds; in 1884, 125,148,680 pounds, and in 1885 169,652,783 pounds, mostly semi-refined, lai'ge-grained centrifugals, but not a ton of the raw brown muscovado sugar named in the treaty, the provisions of which are evaded by trade tricks and the official custom of passing Hawaiian sugars free, for reasons not found in our customs laws. During eight years ending June 30, 1884, under.the treaty, sugar constituted 89.22 per cent. of the total consumption of Hawaiian merchandise in this country. The duty lost on sugar, being 60 per nt. ad valorem, amounted to more than our exports to the Hawaiian Islands, being as follows: Total imports of merchandise, $42,072,264;

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