Telegram-herald., 1890-09-17

OFFICE MIca. CoSDENsED1
MILK COMPANY,
LASsISs, Mich, Aug. 4, lSs5-
DeAR sIE-As that great octopus"
the sugar trust, has advance the price
OF sugar IN the past ssx months more
than s. per cent, would not Congress
be warranted II passing bIll for the re-
hef OF the people, allowing sugar 10
come IA duty tree for sixty or ninety
days Certainly this or something else
should be done BY Congress 10 relieve
the masses As well As the manufcctur-
ers IN this county. We have small
institution here making condensed
milk. Ten months ago We Were paying
i've and seyen-eighths 10 Phi!adeiphla
and New York Tefineries for Crown A
granulated sugar delivered here. Now
they are charging ia eight and one
eighth Tor the same article, and az our
trade Is largely with South America;
China, Mexico aud the East and West
Indies, we are necessarily competitors
OF the Swiss and English manufacturers
who are buying sugar at the old rates
The tax now put upon Us amounts 10
over SloO q day, and makes ityeTy difh-
cul Tor Us TO continue IN business. Ot
course, Congress should take no action
looking 70 our relief; but II the effect
Is as above on little concern Ike ours,
what must IL be on the great masses,
none or whom can get along without
sugar. We shall be forced 10
close up unless the grip OF the sugar
trust Is lOOsened. IL Congress would
allow the public 10 bring N sugar duty
free for, say. ninety days, they could
then protect themselves. Unless some
action is taken, such concerns as ours
will be either obliged TO close up or JON
the procession and become mOnopohsts
themselves. We could form con-
densed mix trust and continue TO live,
but the best way IS 10 strangle the sugar
trust, and leave all such business open
10 healthy competition.
J. NJ. TURSER.
From this the Journal argues that
Mr.. Turner is firm believer III the
doctrine that the tariff Is tax. The
fault in the Journal logic Is very COM
mon onc-drawing a general conclu-
son from a single instance. Repubii-
cans have admitted, time after time,
that the tariff on sugar is tax, as
tariff always is a tax on anything not
produced in this country in sufficient
quantities to supply the market and
create home competition.
The Journal also argues that Mr..
Turner admits that the tariff fosters
trusts. This is another conclusion from
insufficient prem ses. He makes no
such assertion or admission. He is
/ talking about sugar and that alone, so
far as tariff is concerned, and we must
take the letter as il is, and sugar as IL is,
in order TO interpret 1t. The whole
trouble lies IN this one fact that this
country has not yet been able to supply
itself with sugar and probably never
will, unless the beet sugar manufac-
| ture is developed. If there were sugar
manufactures in every State, compet-
ing with each other, there would be no
trouble with tariff or trust
Now if this is all there is to Turner s
free trade, the Republican party can
well afford to be proud of its candidate.
He has simply anticipated the present
position of the Republican party in
Congress on the sugar question and
/ foresnaGowed Blaine's reciprocity
plans. The Republican party is salts
fed With Mr.. Turner. If the Demo-
cratic party thinks he IS free trader,
let them prove their faith by their
works. Let them cast their votes for
Mr.. Turner and leave the old Bourbon
Winans, who has no sort of sympathy
with young Democrats like the editor
of the Journal. to spend his days IN
J peace on his farm.