There is no getting around it. and every man from those Western States who votes for this resolution deliberately. with his eyes open. with the facts undisputed. votes to destroy the beetsugar industry in this country. There is no getting around it. no chance to avoid it. and no chance to plead ignorance. In 1876. when they adopted this treaty and remitted the duties on Hawaiian sugar. a Senator could escape the charge that he intended to destroy the American sugar industry. because the friends and foes alike of the treaty claimed that it was not possible to produce more than 150.000.000 pounds of sugar in Hawaii. and it was generally conceded that they could not produce over 50.000.000 pounds. but now the facts are undisputed and stare us in the face that they did produce 500.000.000 pounds and with every prospect of their being able to produce four times as much. and I believe they can. because I examined those coffee lands in that broad belt from the ocean up the side of Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea. on the Island of Hawaii. now covered with dense tropical forests. partially planted with coffee. and they will. in my opinion. successfully grow sugar. every acre. and While it is broken land and the fields can not be large. the profit is so enormous. owing to the duty which we remitted and the Asiatic labor which they employ. that they can afford to cultivate sugar on fields but a few acres in extent. and they can afford to till the soil by hand. and spade it up with the spade. for the remitted duties alone on the crop of the Ewa plantation last year amounted to over $300 an acre. and they produced 8 tons to the acre. No wonder it is profitable. no wonder the industry so grows. I say every Senator who votes for this resolution votes with his eyes open. intending to destroy the beetsugar industry of this country.