The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-07
THE TARIFF ON SUGAR
Manufacturers Discuss the Question With
the House Committee.
some want the Duty Increased while
Others Want % Left Alone-On@
Man Who Thinks Kansas Might
Go Democratic.

W~ksHINGToS, Jan. 6.-Before tho ways
and means committee to-day John Dy-
mond. president of the sugar planters
association, read a memorial asking for
protection sufficient to produce its own
sugar. Dymond said FREE, sugar from the
Islands did not affect the price
Of sugar in this country. and was not,
therefore,. n d.trimcnt tn the sugar indus
try Of the United States.
Ex-Governor Yarmouth, Of Louisiana,
spoke at some length. He said during
ths political campaigns in his
state he had been met At various
pennsylvania, aud Ohio, and Michigan,
ia favor of a reduction of 80 per cent. i'm
the tariff on sugar. In the face of these
speeches lac had not been as successful as
hc would wish in. converting his demo
cratic friends. Mr.. Yarmouth Thoughts
th" affect of "a bounty after a years ex-
pertinent would be the destruction of the
sugar industry. IL you want friends in
L"m.r'H9h, said he, yo" VIZ must mot
stand "A reduction OF half a
cent II pound. IL would be ruinous tn the
industry. and without sugar the city of
New Orleans would be lepopulated. II
tn" committee. could guarantee tn planters
turb it hc would be glad to accept a bounty
of two cents "A pound ON the sugar he
raised. He wanted, however To- stand ON
the same ground with other protected in
Governor Gear remarked: lyon don's
stand on the same ground with them. you
''fAt y " y W NftiAk
supply the demands of the .-ountry.'
Mr.. Yarmouth replied: 1--WE bid fair tn
If ". are given the encouragement ex-
tended to- other Industries. what We want
IL to bc let alone.
! Representative Peters of Kansas said
he was Interested in silk. sugar and salt.
He asked protection for his silk-raisinR
constituents 10y a. suitable duty on raw
silk. He cited statistics showing the Kan
s.is sugar product from sorghum cane,
and how II was increasing under the pro
t.ction of the tariff. Mr.. Peters doesn's
| thiuk much of the bounty. Ii is a de-
rarturc from the tariff policy, with which
ia, people ar" familiar. Ii il an impo-
sition. and would invite constant agita-
TIA" industry. Kansas needs adj
dItinnal capital to put up sor-
ghnru sugar mills. but that
capital cannot Ice obtained undera bounty.
I h. witness however argued strongly in
favor OF the retention of the duty and
turning his remarks into a political vein.
said tier" was "A feeling of unrest among
the farmers of his state. which " not AL
laycl might result in making Kansas
with it, S2.bD~ republican majority, "A dem
ocr,tic state.
Nebraska. made. an argument in favor of
protection to the beet sugar industry.
predicting that with tn. retention of the
present duty TIN. beet root would within
twenty years outstrip sugar cane and
sorghum in the production of sugar. The
reduction of ia. duty would Kill the in
'u~try.
Professor Wiley Of the agricultural lie
partiu.ut did not anticipate very high re-
suits from Kansas sorghum. as "a I'D pei
cent. article like sorghum could not com
beet. Sorghum. however. made excellen'
alcohol, and hc thought Kansas stood IN
its own light IN preventing people from
making alcohoi.
structcd To report Tomorrow his admins
trative bill.