This was what was said in answer to the prediction of the Louisiana sugar producers that the production of sugar in the islands. would increase under the treaty so as to endanger their industry. They were ridiculed. they were charged with being in with the refiners. and yet the facts axe that their prediction was less onethird of the fact. The facts are that while they said the production would grow from 23.000.000 to 150.000.000 pounds. it has grown from 23.000.000 pounds to 500.000.000 pounds a year. andit will continue to grow with Asiatic labor. and the purchases of goods from this country will continue to fall off just in proportion as the increase of sugar continues. Senator Booth. in the United States Senate. March 18. 1875. fourth Congress. said: Their [Hawaiian Islands] exports to the United States in 1874 amounted in round numbers to a million dollars. of which sugar constituted something more than ninetenthsin value.