Pounds. 1873 .................................................................... 14.808. 00 1874 ......................................... .......................... 13. 574.000 1875 ..................................................................... 17.888.000 It is not possible that Hawaiian sugar can ever find its way to the Atlantic StatesAnd yet in 1896. 49.000 tons of Hawaiian sugar found their way direct to the port of New York-. The cost of transportation would exclude it. nor can there be fear of any great increase in the production of this sugar. in view of the steadily diminishing population of the islands. From the time we offered a bonus of 2 cents a pound more than the total cost of sugar. the population of the island began to increase by leaps and bounds. not by American toilers. but by Asiatic laborers. It has been said that the United States will surely have this trade. if they do nothing to encourage it. This is an entire mistake. for production must diminish and trade lessen by the impoverished condition of the people. or they will be compelled to make commercial relations with some other country. That is the report of the majority of the committee of the House of Representatives in favor of the treaty of 1876. by which sugar was admitted free of duty. They said it was impossible for the industry to increase. and we would lose the trade by an impoverishment of the people if we did not give them this reciprocity treaty. as they called it. and yet under the treaty our trade has fallen off since 1891. the population has increased. and the trade with Asiatic countries has doubled. Senator Mitchell. of Oregon. who was the chief advocate of this treaty in the Senate in 1876. said. as appears by the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. Appendix. page 154. first session Fortyfourth Congress: The consumption of sugar on the Pacific coast in 1873. or rather on that part of the Pacific coast supplied from San Francisco.