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selling at prices at which competition is impossible. The process may be 
painful to ourselves, but itis certain, and in the long run will amply reward the 
sacrifice. Instead of limiting the output, what is wanted is to produce more 
and cheaper, and flood the world with our coffee. 
The following is a resolution passed by the Hawaiian Legislature about to 
be presented to Congress :— 
“‘ Before Hawaii was annexed to the United States” said Mr. Kalanokahlani, 
“the coffee industry was fairly prosperous and the growers were making money, 
but since the admission of coffee free of duty the business of the Hawaiian 
coffee-growers has steadily declined until now the industry languishes. 
“‘There are very rich coffee lands in Hawaii that, if worked, are capable of 
producing large crops of the most delicious coffee in the world, but under 
existing conditions our planters cannot compete with the cheap labour employed 
on the coffee plantations of Brazil, Mexico, and other South American 
countries, and hence it is that they will ask Congress for protection. 
“Tt seems to me that since the Supreme Court’s decision in the Porto 
Rican ‘case Congress would have power to levy a tax on all coffee imported from 
foreign countries into Hawaii, while admitting free of duty all Hawaii’s coffee 
into the United States and Territories. The duty on foreign coffee would give 
us protection and enable our coffee-growers to build up a home market in the 
Territory. The farmers of the United States are protected by a tariff, and why 
not extend like protection to the owners of coffee plantations in Hawaii ?”— 
Planting Opinion. 
. BRAZILIAN COFFEE NOT WANTED. 
The merchants of San Juan (Porto Rico) are alarmed concerning the 
importation of Brazilian coffee, which has been made possible by the removal 
of the tariff. Lately the steamer “ Ponce” brought two consignments of coffee, 
one of 120 bags and the other of 113 bags. This coffee can be sold here at 
about one-half the price of the Porto Rican product, thus’ destroying the 
market for the latter. The merchants of Manita met and resolved not to 
trade with the importers of coffee from Brazil, and meetings were held in 
other towns. Governor Hunt has consented to ask Washington for relief by 
the enactment of a measure declaring that the proclamation does not refer to 
the special duty of 5 cents on coffee, as per section 1, but only to section 8. 
The importers’of the coffee to arrive fearing public feeling, announced 
that the coffee received would be shipped back again by the next vessel, the 
newspapers having demanded that a boycott be instituted against the dealers on 
patriotic grounds until Congress can act, considering a favourable construction 
of the law to be impossible-—New York Journal of Commerce. 
BANANA AS DIET IN TYPHOID CASES. 
_ An American doctor (Dr. Usery, of St. Louis), says the Liverpool Journal 
of Commerce, has lately confirmed the previously stated belief accepted in some 
medical quarters, in the value of the banana as a food for typhoid patients. 
" During the progress of this malady, the use of solid food owing to the thinness 
of parts of the intestinal walls, is attended with danger; but it is asserted that 
the banana is both safe and beneficial, the stomach practically absorbing the 
fruit owing to its nature. It contains only about 5 per cent. waste matter, 
95 per cent. possessing nutritive properties. 
