The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-03-02
TARIFF AND BOUNTY.
Prof. j. FL. Paul on the Sugar
Bounty Bill.
HIS ARGUMENTS AGAINST 1T.
The Only Proper Way to Encourage the Manu-
facture of Sugar is to Establish an
Experimental Factory.

Years ago, the sugar refners of the
United States asked Congress to protect
their business 'for little while' from
foreign competition by levying tax on i'm
ported sugar. They represented that vast
sums OF money were each year sent abroad
for sugar and they desired to keep this
money at home, and pay it in American
wages to the laborers of this country. OF
course Congress gave them their way.
The tariff law places tax of 80 cents on
each pound of sugar imported into the
United States. Not pound of sugar for
table use is imported. a few pounds are
imported Tor experiments. The sugar re-
finer is now completely protected, and this
Is the result: Sugar is sold in Liverpool, on
the high seas, and almost anywhere in the
world at from ~ to 5 cents pound; but
in the United States at from to 10 cents a
pound. More than this, sugar is exported
from this country to other places and sold
at the worlds market price, to cents.
we therefore pay the retiners a bounty
oil over three cents pound on each and
every pound OF sugar produced and sold in
This country. The government gets not
one cent of this; it all goes to the sugar re-
inner, to pay him for employing American
labor.
1no entire labor cost OF refining sugar is
II cents per 100 pounds, or less than two
5enths OF d cent (14) per pound UNITED
states census); but we pay the refiners
cents on each pound. That is, we fur
hish them this labor free of all cost to
them and pay them 2S6 cents per pound
for being so good as to let the laborers
have two tenths of cent out of the cents
We pay them. They steal over ninety per
cent of the money entrusted to them to
pay wages.
lIett 81 Hamlin sugar-trade circu-
-4t yes some interesting statistics of
me consumption of sugar and the profits
-ealized by the refiners. For 1888 the con-
ydnption in the United States was nearly
1ne million five hundred thousand tons,
vJhich gave a clear profit of Sl4 ,0OO, 001 to
reiaeries. For five months of 1889 the
Irofits of the trust have been IS, 230, 600,
md OF the outside refineries in Philadel-
Jhia, Boston and San Francisco, s., 4I0, 900
This sugar was formerly produced by the
4fnerican farmers, and would be produced
~ them today did not the tariff prevent
neiA. When the American farmer sends
p London twenty bushels of wheat, and
-Seeives a sack of refined sugar for it, that
.or. The farmer has the same right to
,soduce sugar on his farm. by exchange.
nat the sugar trust has. The people buy
neir sugar either from the farmer at five
ents or from the sugar trust at ten cents
-. pound. Whether the sugar is obtained
by i. Schange of farm products or whether
it i, refned by the sugar trust, in either
cas- 4 is the product of American labor.
Blu since the protection of sugar, thou
CO.. of farr
quti ,heir farms and to enter the Service Of Of
SOM, sugar refinery or other at smaller pay
th..- their farms would yield without the
80; This substitution of mill labor for
,rr- labor-this transformation of an in
,,erendent and self-supporting freeman
no wage slave, receiving from Sc tc 50
RI week in sugar refinery, is called
ilame industryl''
Fhe government does not permit the