The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-10-03
ALLISON AND SUGAR.
A Speech That Suggests Love For
the Trust and Other MOnopoIies.


Upton, Ia, Oct. AT the county
convention today a magnificent audi
ence assembled to listen to United
States Senator Allison. L. H. Broth
erlin, president, who introduced the
speaker, said Iowa would be proud
to follow him as presidential candidate
two years hence.
Senator Allison's speech was devo-
ted almost entirely to the sugar ques
ton and the action of Congress there
upon for the past four years. Modern
Invention, he said, has in the last
twenty years greatly lessened the cost
.of refining sugar, and as this cost has
gradually diminished, protection on re-
fined sugar has been reduced, until by
the act of 1890 all sugars not above 16
Dutch standard in color were admitted
free of duty, and all refined sugars
and sugars above 16 Dutch standard
in color, being sugars not required to
be refined, because of their purity,
paid a duty of one-half cent per
pound, with an additional one-tenth
cent per pound, as against refined SUI
gars coming from countries that paid
bounty on sugars exported, the prac-
teal effect of which was to levy an
additional one-tenth cent per pound
upon refined sugars coming from Ger
many. as that country was the only
country which practically gave a
bounty upon all refined sugars. The
development of the beet sugar industry
has been so rapid within the last few
years that nearly three-fifths of the
worlds product of sugar is now eX-
traced from beets and a little more
than two-fifths from sugar cane. I'm
der the law of 1890. a great impetus
was given to the production of cane
sugar in Louisiana and Texas, and of
beet sugar in California and Nebras-
ka, and in 1898 Louisiana nearly doub-
led her production.
Mr. Allison then quoted from Presi-
dent Cleveland's letter on July 2 last,
to Chairman Wilson, relative to the
action of the House on sugar, and then
said that while the Democrats profess
ed to be indignant at the Presidents
action, they passed a law which pro-
lvides a duty on sugar, which, though
| it inadequately promotes the industry
nevertheless it levies a tax equal to
Isl per annum upon every man, woman
and child in the United States. We are
left without adequate protection, but
lit must not be forgotten that the Re-
publican party in the Senate and
House voted against everyprovision and
every suggestion placing a duty on SUI
gar. The production of sugar from
beets in Germany this year will be
| !. 1905 900 tons. Can anyone tell why
these beets should be grown there
rather than here. and transported to
New York and from thence into the
great agricultural states of the west
for consumption? It has been demon
strated that the soil of Iowa, Nebras-
ka, Kansas, California and Oregon is
Especially adapted to the growth of
beets; that more sugar per acre can
| be produced here than in any part of
Germany: and yet, for a theory, we
destroy this power of production.
The beets are taken from the soil
and manipulated at the factory to the
point of producing graduated sugar
These processes can be seen at Grand
Island and Norfolk in Nebraska. in
utah, in California and in Louisiana.
In this way small factories would be
Established in the interior of our coun-
TRY, making it impossible for great
combinations to control the prices.