The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-01-24

JIG udQ received the amounts HELL
toned. They had gone into the jeans
OF the Lehi sugar factory people, 4,0O0-
900 pounds of sugar, at bounty of 2
cents per pound. Think of it, $4,000
per year drawn from the treasury of
the government to enrich individuals
or corporations. He demanded that
one factory should be pointed out
which had been started under the law
that had been in vogue for three years.
That fact shows that capitalists have
no faith in the ability of the govern
ment to perpetuate the bounty. The
provision of the Wilson bill, which this
memorial is intended to checkmate,
is that the bounty reduced be on a
graded scale. He then cited an inter-
view with Manager Cutler of the
Lehi factory, in reference to the mat
ter Capitalists and men of enterprise
will make thorough investigation
and care full computation of all matters
relating to the business under con-
sideration. and decide accordingly.
Circulars were sent out previous to
the establishment of the factory, es-
timating the cost of the manufacture.
In that circular not one word was
said about bounty. There has been
no tabulated statement as to the cost
OF the production of sugar. The other
side should have presented one. No
SNoeC HeS Tie IISHl 70 pace d bounty
upon any product The United States
Supreme court has decided that a state
has no right to tax its citizens for
bounty. What a state cannot do
the government may not do. When
man buys an article upon which
a duty is levied or an internal revenue
tax collected. he contributes that much
of his substance to the treasury of
the United States. When we have
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bestowed it upon a favored individual
or corporation in the way of bounties
we have violated one of the funda-
mental principles of the government.
This is question that affects not
only Utah, but all the commonwealth
Of these United States. He mentioned
among the states that receive sugar
bounties on beets alone California,
Nebraska and Kansas. A ridiculous
proposition in the Mckinley bill is
that maple sugar is a recipient of the
bounty. The New England farmers
never dreamed that the treasury of
the United States would be invoked to
aid that simple enterprise. The tariff
reductions are what have reduced the
price of sugar in this territory. An
idea has gone forth that the duty is
a tax the foeigner has to pay. In re-
gard to sugar the opposite is true
The consumer pays the tax. The me-
mortal contains so many inaccuracies
1t would be disgrace to submit it to
Congress-
Eldredge said the question was one
Of national scope. He mentioned the
states which he thought were con-
cerned in the question. The amount
OF sugar consumed in the United
States is 4,O24, O0O, 900 pounds. He re-
called The words of a great statesman
Wherever there is no labor for the
hands there is no labor for the teeth;''
1856, 100000 pounds of sugar is an
nually imported at a great ex-
pense. He gave statistics which
he thought showed an advance
of the sugar industry under this
bounty. 1t seems to a general
feeling with Democratic members that
we should furnish labor to men in
other lands. He quoted Jacksons re-
mark about becoming a little more
Americanized, and thought it would
apply in this case. Had it not been
for the bounty. the amount which ac-
crued therefrom would have been
scattered in other lands. He claimed
that the factory at Lehi had kept the
$4,000 Of which the gentleman COM
planned, in the territory, and then
spoke of the comparative cost of pro-
ducing an acre of wheat and an acre
of sugar beets. 1t would require more
labor TO raise the beets, but is not
that just what Utah needs? He ia
vored the measure that would furnish
labor to the thousands of unemployed
in the territory
Adams ridiculed the statements cor
| tanned in the memorial, the soil par
ticuiarly adapted to the sugar beet"
and would give an impetus never felt
before" A high grade of sugar."
has found employment for thousands
q Cad hn of
lands"
The comment of the committee to
which the memorial was referred
would certainly be why under those
prosperous conditions Utah needs no
bounty.
Booth, of Salt Lake, said. and very
truly, that nothing he might say
would change the vote. The gentlemen
on the other side were off on their
history. A sugar plant was once
started in Sugarhouse ward and failed
because the conditions were not favor
able. He spoke of some little mis-
takes" made by the opposite side, and
also spoke Of fluctuations in the sugar
market and what he considered the
Republican logic in regard to the
causes for hard times followed. He
referred again to the experiment in
Sugarhouse ward.
Williams asked whether, with the
same machinery and appliances that
were then used, the sugar industry
could be made a success.
Booth contented himself with reply
ing that Sugar could be made now"
Hart said in reply to Booths ques-
ton whether the consumer paid the
tariff on sugar, Yes. Harrison, in one
of his messages, pointed with pride to
the Mckinley bill in removing the
bounty of z cents on sugar and thereby
saving to the people of the United
States the sum of $50, 000 00O'
He deplored the fact that a partisan
debate had arisen. He considered such
discussion useless and a waste of the
time which might be used in the in
terests Of the people. He had pre-
Sented minority report for the reason
that no majority had a right to voice
the sentiments of a divided body. He
saw no use in bringing into the coun-
Gil chamber the echoes of campaign
speeches Of two months ago. 1t was
in poor taste TO parade hard tines
under present circumstances. What is
the matter with England, Australia,
Germany?''
Williams-Yes Germany, with the
highest tariff in the world.
Booth said free trade was what allied
England.
Hart very ably sketched the rise Of
manufacturing interests under the free
trade conditions in England. He said
he had not been notified Of the meet
ing of the committee which made this
majority report. If he had, he would
have demanded a statement from the
Lehi sugar factory that would be am
aid in considering the matter He was
opposed to the theory of bounties. The
people should support the government.
not the government the people. He
also claimed that bounties are illegal
and in support of his position read the