The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-10-03
ALLISON ON SUGAR.
Some Hard Facts for the Farmers
of InNXa

Upton, Iowa, Oct. AT the county
convention to-day a magnificent audience
bled to listen to United States Sena-
tor Allison. l.. III. Brotherlin. the presi-
dent, who introduced the speaker, said
Iowa would be proud to follow him as the
President tal candidate two years hence.
The Senator responded happily. His
speech was devoted almost entirely to the
sugar question and the action of Congress
thereupon for the past four years. Mod
ern inventien," he said, ''has in the last
twenty years greatly lesseued the cost of
diminished, the protection on refined 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 u cent per pound. with an addi-
tional 1-f0 cent per pound, as against the
ehned sugars coming from countries that
paid bounty on sugars exported-the
practical effect of which was 10 levy an
additional lilo cent per pound upon re-
fined sugars coming from Germany, as
that country was the only country that
practically gave bounty upon all refined
sugars. The DEVELOPMENT of the beet
sugar industry has been so rapid within
the last few years that nearly three-ffths
of the worlds product Of sugar is now ex-
'tracted from beets, and little more than
two-fifths from sugar-cane. Under the
law of 1890 great impetus was given to
the production of cane-sugar in Louisiana
and Texas and of beet-sugar in California
and Nebraska, and in 1898 Louisiana
nearly doubled her production"
Mr.. Allison quoted from President
Cleveland's letter of July last to Chair
man Wilson relative to the action of the
House on sugar. and then SAID that
while the Democrats professed TO be in-
dignant at the Presidents action they
passed a law which provides a duty on
sugar which. though il inadequately pro-
notes the industry, nevertheless leves
tax equal to 81 per annum upon every
man, woman and child in the United
States, We are left without adequate
protection, but 1t must not be forgotten
that the Republican party in the Senate
and House voted against every provision
and every suggestion placing a duty on
sugar. The production of sugar In Ger
many from beets this year will be 1,70O,-
600 tons. Can any one tell why these
sugars made from beets should be grown
there rather than here. and transported to
New York aud thence into the great agri-
cultural States of the West for con sump-
ton? 1t has been demonstrated that the
soil of Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, California
and Oregon is especially adapted TO the
growth of beet; that more sugar per acre
can be produced here than in any part of
Germany, and yet, for theory, we destroy
this power of production.
''The beets are taken from the soil and
manipulated at the factory to the point of
producing granulated sugar. These pro-
cesses can be seen at Grand Island and
Norfolk, in Nebraska, in Utah, in Califor-
MIA and in Louisiana. In this way small
factories would be established in the inte-
rior of our country. making it impossible
for great combinations to control the
prices"