The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-03-16

much she paid for the sugar she used in
preserving fruit last summer.
In 1887, according to the eleventh stats
teal abstract 100, 612 154 pounds of refined
sugar were exported from this country and
sold to foreigners. When the refiners ex-
port sugar, 80 per cent. of the duty they
had paid on the raw material is paid back
to them. The object of paying back the
duty is probably to make present of it to
the foreign purchaser or to the refiner.
II we deduct the revenue tax of cents
pound OF raw materials, from the bounty
of 80 cents pound that is paid to the re-
finers, there is left a bounty of IL cents
on each pound of sugar sold, over and
: above the tax they pay on raw materials.
Mr.. Stayner gives the amount of sugar
sold in one year in this country at 3,000,-
100000 pounds, which, multiplied by u
cents, makes total of S45,0O0,0O0 paid in
bounty to the sugar trust, out of which
they kindly let the laborers have 81, 4S4, 303.
They stole over $40 ,000, 900 of the money en-
trusted to them to pay wages; steal of
more than 80 per cent. of the money given
TO them for that purpose only.
The sugar refiners admit that their profits
last year amounted to Sl9,000,000; and it is
believed that they did not tell the whole
truth even then.
The total wages paid in sugar refining is
IL cents for each ten pounds of sugar
made, or only tenth of the money the
people give to the refiners to pay their en-
ployees.
This industry, which has had absolute
control of the home market for twenty
years, which gets its labor free of all cost
which gets its tax on raw sugar paid by the
people, and part of it refunded a second
time in the rebate of exports, which en-
ploys only 5000 persons, and these
at small wages, which exacts a black
mail, allowed by law, amounting to
S45,OO0,0O0 year from the sugar
bowls of Americans. which is the
only example Of ripened fruit the
protection" tree has yet borne, and which
is, therefore, exactly what every protected
industry expects to be-a gigantic robbery
under cover of law, that ruins any single
firm that dares to compete with it. this
industry raises its head in Utah for more
protection, asking that one cent more per
pound be added TO the price of all the sugar
it will produce herel
Facts are wasted on Mr. Stayner. For
dismal tale of days have labored to con-
vince him that if Utah is good country
Tor sugar making, then Utah ought to have
an abundance of sugar at low price; but he
says that since we have good facilities for
producing sugar, therefore we ought to
pay more for our sugar than if we did not
have such facilities. l have tried to show
ulin Iuat unleSS we import the productS OF
cheap labor, we must pay low wages to
make these products, instead of high wages
to make the things we exchange for them
have tried to show him that it is more
wages we want, not more work and less
pay; he will not believe it. / have labored
to indicate to him that if farmers will make
twice as much at growing cane as they do
at growing potatoes. all he has to do is TO
offer them the increased pay for cane, and
they will go at it quickly enough; and that
if the sugar trust will not freeze him out