Speech #550024388

Yes. and yet we are asked by this bill to give an average of 50 cents on the 100 pounds to compensate for the difference in labor cost between this country and Europe. where they refine sugar by pauper labor. I will go on with the letter: I 180598 the value of Hawaiian sugar imported was over $19.000.000. upon which the duty at 40 per cent would have been $7.600.001. For the sake of maintaining a foreign commerce of $3.648.000. and in order that a few shipping houses of San Francisco may benefit by the trade and keep control of the large cash balances of.Hawaiian planters. the nation at large must give up $7.600.000 of revenue. This is reciprocal trade with a vengeance. This is a high price to induce the Hawaiian people to buy products from the American people. For the sake that coolies may work in a foreign climate which white labor can not stand. and where the white and dominant race forms about 3 per cent only of the population. the laboring men of San Francisco now parade its streets calling for work. and a charitable fund aggregating $25.000 is daily published in its newspapers and is now being disbursed to an idle crowd who clamorfor the tickets doled out to them in the order of application and which entitle each to a days work at $1 per day upon an unnecessary boulevard. That prosperity we heard about having arrived at Omaha the other day does not seemto have reached San Francisco. It seems to have been confined to rather a limited location. It has not spread around very generally. -Should a Coxey army again march on Washington and class ever be arrayed against class in our fair country. it will be because home labor is denied a right to work for its own market. in order that foreign coolie labor may add to the wealth of a class now actively at work to influence national legislation in a perpetuation of their privileges. The local agents of Hawaiian planters. without any possible accruing benefit to themselves and as mere retaliation against the producer of native sugar. are today so unpatriotic as to be collecting figuresIshall be glad to have Senators listen to this. becausethere is a -sequel to it. These gentlemen go on. giving us valuable information: The local agents of Hawaiian planters. without any possible accruing benefit to themselves and as mere retaliation against the producer of native sugar.are today so mupatriotic as to be collecting figures from native California sugar factories. in order to produce them at Washington and support their claim that native sugar needs no protectionI have heard that when a certain class of men fall out honest men get their duewhereas up to January 1. 1897. they knew that the Alameda Sugar CompanyThatis. this companyhad. since 1889. paid out in dividends $130.000 and received in bounty $226.714.93 showing a loss without bounty of1$96.744.93.