New Iberia enterprise. (New Iberia, La.) 1885-1902, 1894-05-19
Resolutions Adopted by the Su-
gar Planters Convention,

Resolved, by the cane growers
and sugar manufacturers of Louis
lana, in convention assembled, ,
That the present sugar schedule of
the Senate finance committee, fix
ing the duties on raw sugars i'm
ported into this country at 40 per
cent al valorem, is an insufficient
and inadequate protection to the
home producer that it is impOssi-
ble for the cane growers and sugar
manufacturers of Louisiana to pay
for tue .s..n.al cost reproduction at
that rate of duty, hat for thirty
years the duty on sugar has raiige0t
from two to three and one. half cents
per pound, and sugar all over the
world, during the most Of this time,
has been 100 per cent higher than
it is to-day; that now, when we
have the lowest prices ever known
under free labor, it is proposed to
remove the existing bounty of two
cents per pound, and substitute
therefor duty of about one half
this amount, and against this We
record our earnest protest.
The sugar tariff was instituted in
the beginning of the government,
and was continued from that day
mp to the year 1890, when the Nc
Kinley bounty law went into opera
tion-the bounty being supposed to
take the place of the duty then pre-.
vailing, although the bounty itself
was q reduction of the rate OF the
tariff law at that time.
Resolved, That the cane growers
and sugar manufacturers OF Louis
lana believe that the government |
has obligated itself to carry out the |
provisions OF the Mckinley bounty |
law to the expiration of its term
that npon the faith of that belief
we, the cane growers and sugar
manufacturers of Louisiana, have
expended enormous sums Of money
in opening up new lands, enlarging
our factories, aud have entered into
contracts for terms of years, many
OF which have not yet expired;
that under the influences OF that
bounty the sugar industry Of Louis.
lana has been increased in three
years from $50, 900 tons TO $4,000
tons; that we solemnly declare that
IL this law be abrogated, and if no
sufficient duty be adopted, this
great and growing industry will be
practically destroyed; that we
earnestly protest against q cOntin.
nance of the Hawaiian reciprocity
treaty. which, under the conditions
Of the proposed tariff bill, will prac.
tically grant a bounty of %, ,OOO, 900
per year to the Sandwich Islands,
where sugar is produced with semi.
slave labor under conditions de.
structive to any fair competition
with free labor.
Resolved, That we appreciate the
valued services of our senior Sen.
ator, and those Of our junior Sena.
tor since he has been a member of
,he Senate.
Resolved, That we approve and
appreciate the efforts of those of
,ur Representatives who SO earn. [
,stly defended and supported our
interests in the gravest crisis of its
history. Ii
Resolved, That copies Of these
resolutions he forwarded to our
Senator's and Representatives in
congress. II
Resolved, That in view OF the
.reat interests involved to all
he people Of Louisiana, we re-
'pectfnlly urge and request the
Of the Legislature that in |
he election OF Uniied States SEN ,
ltOrs there be chosen only men who ,
an he relied upon at ali times and
lnder all circumstances 10 stand
Or the sugar, rice, and all the other I
,reat industries Of our State.
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