The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-09-05
THE PRICE OF SUGAR
1T CAN NO LONGER BE DETERMINED
BY THE TRUST.

ProtecttOn organs nave CnanEeu Iheh
Tune-Nc Longer Fear For the Poor
Mans breakfast Table-.Now the "Poor"
Sugar Trust Gets Their Sympathy.
The fact that the new tariff act pro-
lects the consumers Of sugar in the
United States against any unjustiflable
enhancement in the prices of refined
sugars by the Sugar trust of this coun-
try is being demonstrated in way that
must bring confusion to those persons
who but a short time ago were desig-
mating IL as an act drawn in the interest
Of that great monopNy, says the Phila-
delphia Record. A recent increase in
the wholesale price Of refined sugars in
the American markets has already had
the effect Of bringing into competition
with such sugars substantial quantities
of foreign refined sugars, the importation
Of which was practically prohibited by
the terms Of the Mckinley act. It is now
manifest that when the Sugar trust is
sued it's recently published edict that its
brokers must not handle foreign refined
sugars it fully realized that the barrier
to competition erected by the Mckinley
act had been swept away by the new
tariff, and that it could ~ -onger arbi-
trarily determine for itself what prices
should be paid for refined sugars by con-
sumers in this country.
The New York Journal Of Commerce
in its comments upon the sugar market
during last week said:
"Fully $4,000 tons Of foreign refined
sugars have been placed, and probably
more, with additional negotiations
pending. This amount is quite large
enough to be conspicuous as sign Of
further possibilities, and there can hard
ly be doubt that feeling Of independ-
ence has been created toward domestic
refined sugars among those who can use
the imported article.
One of the foremost Of the journals
which advocate McKinleyism, and which
within the last six months have many
times designated the new tariff law as a
Sugar trust act, in recent issue edito-
rally referred to these importations Of
foreign refined sugars as follows:
"Under our fool tariff the German re-
finer can undersell the American refiner
in New York, and we cannot change the
absurd law by stroke of a pen, as can
be done by most of our foreign competi-
tors. T"
So that the fears and lamentations so
freely expressed in print during the last
ten months by the enemies of tariff re-
Gown, tlaf tha Y,ax., tar;f would ;noraac aco
the price of sugar for the poor man IS
breakfast table have been changed by
the inexorable logic of events into wall
that under the workings Of that act the
poor man will get his sugar for his
breakfast table from foreigners at such
low prices that the much to be pitied
American Sugar Refining company can
not successfully compete for the trade,
and that, unfortunately, as Democratic
president is in Office any change Of the
law in the direction Of giving more
powers and privileges to trusts and mo-
nopolies is out of the question.
Every day makes it clearer that the
Mckinley act, which imposed no duty
upon raw sugar, yet placed prohibitory
tax of half cent pound on the refined
sugars consumed by the masses of the
people, was the real Sugar trust act. II
produced no revenue for the government
from sugar and left the prices Of the
only kinds Of sugar that the people use
entirely at the mercy Of monopoly. The
new tariff act, by its duty Of 40 per cent
ad valorem upon all kinds of sugar,
gives the government $40, 600, 900 year.
ly revenue, and by the imposition Of
only one-eighth of cent pound addi.
tional duty upon refined sugar protects
the masses Of the people by means Of
foreign competition from any arbitrary
advance in the price Of this necessary Of
life.
No calamities, but benefits, have come
to the people Of this country by reason
Of the provisions Of the new tariff, an6
the time is near at hand when the au
thors Of the organized campaign of slam
der and falsehood which has been waget
against it for political advantage in 6
time of great business distress will bt
overwhelmed in the indignation aroused
by their detected fraud.
STAND Rv PRJNCipl