The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1883-03-17
ASSOCIATION.

From il report read before the
Sugar Planters Association a
short time ago, prepared by Mr.
John Dymoad the following is clip
ped:
In regard to the tariff bill. just passed
. in so far as ii affects sugar, the new sys
tenn of assessing duties recommended
by the Tariff Commission. and to the
Tariff Commission by this association
has been adopted-l. e., that all not
above No. IL Dutch standard in color
shall pay duty in proportion to their
sacchar:ne strength, aud tlat all sugars
above No. l3 in color shall pay duty &C
cOrding to their color.
The government customs officers re
port that during the last fiscal year the
average rate of ali sugars Imported was
4o-lOo cents per pound and they
also report that the average pola,i SEQ
pic test ofaH gar imported Was about
80, being actually a shade under that
figure.
Under the tariff as now passed, su
gars hereafter imported. if they aver
age the same saccharine strength as
last year, will pay an average duty Of
9 cents per pound. Tle tariff places
! 40 100 cents per pound on all sugars
Or solutions Of sugar testing not above
Is per cent by the polariscOpe, and
$1,000 cent per degree for each degree
or fraction of degree above Is. until
sugars above No. l3 in color are reach
ed. Sug, IRIS above No. Ii aud not above
No. 10. pay 2244 cents per pound above
No. 16and not above Ma. 20. pay 3cents;
and ali above No. 90. 81 cents.
Experience shows that we in Louisi
n ars protected by the average duty
collected. and not by the higher rates
LEVIED on the higher grades. In
December last. during the period Of
heaviest receipts here sugars of 81 test
were selling in Havana at 81 cents,
free on board, including freight to New
York, and being colored down to No.
III, were dutiable ut 81 cents. and
were selling in New York at 73I4 to
77l8 cents. Louisiana clarified sugars
of the same test, bnt Of light color were
selling at the same price in New York.
and here att t." 7 la cents, the differ
ence in price representing the cost Of
freight to New York. On these high
test sugars the Caban got III New Rork
in bond, just 21s cents less than we
got for the same test. The same rela
ton held good with sugars grading
''fully fair here. When the foreigner
placed his slave-grown ugars in the
United States, in competition with our
sugars, he paid gig cents duty and
then got the same. price for the same
test. All assertions that We are protec
ted by the higher schedule ofdLties are
f~allacious, and the sooner we recognize
this fact he better for US. They bene
fit the refiners by prohibiting the i'm
p%ortatiOn of his grades. We should.
therefore, shapeOur efforts to maintain
the duties OH low grade sugars. The
refiners will look after the duties on
high grades. They have been compel
led in this contest to admit for the first
time that they wanted protection for
their special industry.
1t has been held by some that a reduc
ton in our duties on foreign sugars
would be followed by an advance in !
their price at the place of production, |
or in increased export charges there.
equal to the reduction in duties here.
and hence that q reduction in the tariff
here would not injure us.
This statement is also misleading. !
There are produced in the world over
S ,OOO,O 900 tons of sugar, and we consume
in, this country about 100000 tons.
OF these 100000 tons consumed here
some $4,000 tons are bronght:from 9th
er countries. If that ESQ. ObO tons of So