Session #55 · 1897–99

Speech #550024386

There may be some Senator who did not hear it: To refine a ton of dutyfree Hawaiian sugar requires the labor of one man for one and onethird days. This comes from a sugar grower. from a sugar refiner. from the Alameda Sugar Company of San Francisco. .To grow from the soil up.and manufacture .one ton of refined sugar requires the labor of one man for 38 days. This. 27.000 tons of Hawaiian dutyfree sugar yearly displaces in money valueFactory labor .............. $1.135.000 Coal ------------------------ $.500. 000 Farm labor and rentals --- 9.000.000 Othersupplies ------------- 659.000 Lim2stone ---------------- 400.000 The labor of allied industries. foundries. jute and cotton mills. etc.. remain still to be reckoned on. and all this native labor displaced that a cooliemade contractlabor product may thrive in a foreign island. The three localities in California where the three beetsugar factories are already established are the only really prosperous agricultural communities in that State today. Domestic exports to Hawaii in 1895 were not so large as in 1883. less by nearly $1.000.000 than in 1890. and less by over a million and a quarter than in 1883 .......................... $3.683.000 1 1892 ---------------------- $3.781.000 1890 .......................... 4.606.000 1895 .......................... 3.648.000 1891 ------------------------- 4.935.000 In this connection. before I forget it.
Keywords matched
cooliemade

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
70%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Economic threat

Speaker & context

Speaker
JAMES JONES
Party
D
Chamber
S
State
AR
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
550024386
Paragraph
#0
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