The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-08-21

nv giving them the advantage over Ger
| man and French refineries OF the nii'e'
| enoe In freight and half cent pound
/ II gave the American refineries mohopo-
| 10 ~ the American market. But under
! that system the Government got no reve-
ma from sigar-the Trust got IL ALL
But when Mckinley was putting his
bill into this shape and thereby protect
ing American refiners Of sugar. the LOUIS
lana planters stepped up and said TO MIN
How is this-you protect one sugar IL
dustry, but you leave us, the producer
of sugar. to compete with the woTlu
"Oh. never mind about that" Mchih'o'
replied, II VIII pay you 10 raise s"s"'
out Of the general taxes that the Pe'''o
OF the United States pay. Go on rd'''"s
sugar at a loss. and ] will pay you o"'
OF the Treasury of the United states wv
cents for each pound OF sugar wa.
raise" lie accordingly framed Ms D''' V
this idea. and we have resuiaiH'
the day II passed 70 this, allo"eu i1o'''
lana sugar planters TO make al '"e'
oo,,d from, c,ltivating sugar. and we nave
piven them besides Of the money VI '"'
tax-navers Of the United STATES "o
corts for each pound of sugar they nave
raised This is what is called the Dou"'S'
Tho crop Of Louisiana IS rated TINS Ee"'
- about S500OO.OOO pounds. so that II we
NOD not repealed the Mckinley bill we
lid have paid the Louisiana planters
this year sI70O,OOO Of the hard-earheu
money of the taxpayers OF the Ohi'eu
states.
rho hill which Congress has passed mas
changed all this. 1t prohibits the pay
ment Of any more bounty. IL taxes III
sugar that is imported, raw ana re.
fined alike. 20 per cent. ad valorem' anu
Il taxes refined sugar that Is l'npoi'o'
one-eighth of a cent a pound IN auu'''o,'
N-o,, estimating the raw sugar thal =
,r,norted al three cents pound (WHICH
g. ohoye rather than below, an average
,.olue, this will make the tax "h'O"
sugar must stand l.S-o cents No.
loss than a cent and third Pou"u'
Rut under the Mckinley law n"u ~
stand n tax of half cent pounu' Inc
tov on sugar then. will be between louT-
ef,bs and dve-slxths OF a cent pouhd
moro than II was under the Mckinney
lo,y Sugar will be increased in price,
,bor cav one cent pound. The amount
-, sugar we have been heretofore USING
sbows that our population consumes
about sixty pounds 10 the hean III ',,
course Of a year. This tax theh VIM
add sixty cents year to eacn lhuiN'D-
uars burdens, or 50 a year to the purueiS
of = family Of five. The added burden
therefore is a triile.
Dut how does the other side OF the
account stand? Under the Mckinney Ia"
the Government got nothing Inc ""oio
tax of half a cent pound went INTO
the treasury OF the Sugar Trust. But
under the slight addition the Democrats
have made the United State Treasury
gets 100000. of revenue ana we aIe
saved the $i7oO,o0o which we wou'd
pay TO the Louisiana planters me TAX
pavers of the United States WILL lhere-
fore. make a clean saving Oh SoV'VVo'V'V'
for this would have to be paid by them
somewhere else if the tax on sugar had
not been raised. Cannot each individual
in the United States afford TO pay sixty
cents q wear TO secure this prodigious
result and clip the wings of the sugar
Trust to the extent they nave peen
shaved?
If German, Brlce and Co. had mad
their way the protection that the Trust
extorted out of a Democratic congress
would have been much greater IMAM II
is. But the Democratic senators 1or0eo
the Trust to be contented with protec-
ton of an eighth of a cent pound When
Mckinley had given them a half cent
mound. and 1t secured these prodiglous
results to the people of the country The
Democratic party has every right to ask
at the hands Of the tax payers or the
United States a vote of thanks FOR what
it did with sugar.