The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-07-26
CUES IONS ON SUGAR.

1HIormd ZION IL mas gathered rom MI.
Henry o. Havemeyer, president of the
sugar trust His testimony was partly
characterized by frankness that, in
some instances, might be termed bru-
tai, and partly by a display of igno-
rance upon subject that his important
official position warrants the people in
believing to have been assumed.
Mr.. Havemeyer made frequent allu-
sions to ''the poor mans sugar" and il
some knowledge of the sugar trade
could be CLEANED, the specific details of
which. he says, he is unacquainted
with, it might lead to very strong
suspicion that his regard for 1.-The poor
mans sugar" is limited by the rapidity
with which it can be placed in the rich
mans barrel. The extent 20 which
''the poor mans sugar" is used by the
refiners would be subject of interest
If obtainable.
Such an exhibit would. in our belief,
prove that 1.-The poor mans sugar" forms
but a small part of the country's sup
ply. Mr.. Havemeyer says that it is
made from the lower grades of raw
sugar, sit not being possible to be made
out of the higher grades OF raw" The
investigating committee should have
asked Mr.. Havemeyer some of the fol-
lowing questions:
1. What are the different grades Of
raw sugar imported into the United
States market?
2. What quantity Of each grade, in
tons, is imported?
8. Is it not to the interest of sugar
growers to produce as high grade as
possible of raw sugar?
4. Do they not secure a better price
for their raw sugar the higher the
grade?
5. Is not the proportion of high grade
sugar now sold in this market much
larger than it was five or ten years ago?
e. Is not the proportion of low grade
sugar-"the poor mans sugar-now
made by the sugar trust much less than
1t was five or ten years ago?
z. Is there not now greater demand
for high grade refined sugars than
there was five or ten years ago?
s. Is not the sugar trusts output and
sale of high grade refined sugars much
larger than it used to be in proportion
to its sale of low grade sugars?
9. Is it not possible to make any low
grade, ''the poor mans sugar." out of
high grade raw sugar?
10. What proportions of high grade
and of low grade refined sugars are
made out of high grade raw sugar test
ing % degrees?
IL Is it not possible to make high
grade (granulated) refined sugar out of
q low grade raw sugar?
IL. What proportion of high grade
(granulated) refined sugar can be made
out of a low grade raw sugar.
1S. What is the percentage of waste
IN making refined sugar out of raw
sugar testing 90 degrees?
II. Does not the sugar trust pay more
money for, and buy more sugar at and
above 80 degrees test than below it, be-
cause the higher the grade of raw sugar
the less the waste TO the refiner?
Is. Is it not fact that the bulk of
the sales of the sugar trust consist of
high grade granulated sugar?
10. Is it not fact that the sugar
trust sells hundred carloads of 100
barrels each, of high grade graduated
sugar, where only twenty carloads of
low grade yellow sugars are sold?
II. Is it not a fact that the poor
mans sugar" is now the high grade
granulated sugar which he has used in
place of the low grade yellow sugars
since the price of sugar was cheapened
to 1.-The poor man" by the Mckinley
tariff?
Is. Is it not fact that precisely the
same methods and the same machinery
are employed in making refined sugar
from low grade as from high grade raw
sugar?
10. Is it not fact that the surplus
OF raw sugar produced in all sugar
growing countries, over and above the
worlds requirements, tends to lower
the market value of raw sugar?
20. Is it not a fact that the sugar
trust controls the market price of raw
sugar in the United States?
81. Is it not fact that the lower the
price of raw sugar the lower would be
the duty paid thereon under an ad
valorem tariff?
90 Is it not a fact that a specific duty
on raw sugar would, as general rule.
compel the payment of larger duties by
the trust than an ad valorem tariff?
%. Is it not fact that the sugar
trust buys its Hawaiian raw sugar for
the Pacific coast market at a lower
price than the New York market
price?
81. Is II not a fact that the sugar
trust sells its refined sugar on the
Pacific coast market at a higher price
than the New York market price?
25 Is it not a fact that the sugar
trust sells its sugar, refined IN San
Francisco, in markets east of the Rocky
mountains on a lower basis than the
same sugar is sold for in the Pacific
coast markets?
26. Is this not discriminating against
"the poor mans sugar" on the Pacific
coast?
%. Is If not a fact that the Chino beet
sugar factory in southern California Is
compelled to sell its raw sugar produc.
to the sugar trust?
-. Is it not fact that the sugar trus.
refused to allow the Chino beet sugar
factory TO make and sell a refined sugar
product IN California?
90. Is il not fact that a siEila-
course would be pursued il other 6ees
sugar factories were erected?
So Is it not fact that specific rate
on sugar would be more satisfactory 10
the cane sugar producers .of Louisiana
than an ad valorem rate, which Is prsc-
tically fixed BY the trust through its
control Of the raw sugar market?