The Daily Texarkanian., 1897-07-14
SUGAR TRUST PROFITS.
John De witt Warner Makes some Estl.
mates aud Scores the Trust.

! F"''A -" W AtN WAfnof MAKES some t9Stl-
mates aud Scores the Trust
Ex-Congressman John Dc Witt War
ner is ono of the best posted men in this
country on sugar tariffs When in con
gress, he carried the house for free sug-
ar In a recently published statement
he estimates the net protection to tho
trust given by the Aldrich schedule at
from 30 cents to $1.14 on every 100
pounds of refined sugar
Without attempting to give his argu-
ment as to each of the ways in which
the trust would be protected we give
his summary Of trust profits as follows,
Specific dinmontial. al............ l0asO. .dO+
Thirty-1vo per cent ad ynlorem
dlnerentlal, al,.,,,,..,.,,,.,,,,,,,., 0,l4Q0 OIL
| Comtervniling duty, say,,. .,,. 0.03l0 0,G5
Additional by substitution Of 75
per cent ad yalorom for specific
duties in low grades sn,,,.,.,, 00Ol0 O,ls
AoVAlt ~, ,NO0NhlA
In tho vast majority OF oosos however, the
actual result Is between 40 and 90 conts per 100
| pounds net protection TO the trust, and 10 is
mpracticablo 80 TO combine circumstances aa
TO bring this below l0 cents or above 60 conts
FOR any considerable amount
AS an itom Of tariff taxation the sug.
ar schedule is ideal from tho protection
ist standpoint Sugar is the one article
used by poor and rich to an equivalent
extent and a tax on which therefore
falls most heavily on the poor in pro-
portion to their ability to pay it, lta
production and distribution are control
led by concern which is at onco the
greatest Of our mean trusts and tho
moanost Of our great ones,
II is consistent therefore that on this
one article there should be levied moro
than ono-third Of our total tariff taxa
ton, aud that our people should be bur-
donod by tax Of more than 500, 600,
600 that realizes less than $f0,0O0,
900 for the treasury aud moro than
$50, 900, 600 for the sugar refining COM
bine, while the Same combine is enabled
to net an additional $40, 900, 600 by the
opportunity given it to import at present
duty rates raw sugars from which II
can mako refined to be sold by II under
tho enhanced price assured II by the
proposed Aldlioh schedule, Tho net
protection" Of from 46 to 60 cents per
100 pounds given the trust on its rofn-
ing process alouo should bo considered
as sufficient when wo romombor that
the labor cost Of this process IL slightly
loss than Q Is cents per 100 pounds-tbat
Is to say, Senator Aldrieh, IN bohOlf Of
American labor, proposes unduly to tax
wage earnors in order TO give the trust
from five to seven times as much PRO.
lection" as IL pays for all tho labor in
yolyed
Next TO the wage Garner the formor
Is dear 20 the proteotionist heart aud
he Is therefore equally favored by the
sugar schedule OF late yeors through
out the eastern and middle and many Of
tho central stotos the competition Of thC
far west has driven our farmers from
grain raising into fruit culture, lhb
has now 90 developed that except foi
exports Of canned goodg-jama, pre-.
serves, etc. --in which we ought TO sup.
ply the world, the buainoss Of fruit rois
ing has, In its turn booomoOlmost profit
less And poverty is now assured tC
those who are depoudont upon fruit oul'
turo by the proposed tux Of two oont'
pound on sugar This iuoroOge'
by from 90 to 20 per cont tho article
which would mako up from DO to 20
por cont of tho total weight Of tho jams,
oto,, tho export Of which might insure
living prices for the surplus fruita buI
which Ia now practically prohibited
Aud this Ia "a government of The
people, by the people aud for tho poo
plo," Who arc "tho poopleG"