Semi=weekly graphic., 1897-06-23
SUGAR TRUST PROFITS.
John De Wilt Warmer Makes some Esti
 mates and Scores the Trust.

John De Wilt Warmer Makes some Esti-
 mates and Scores the Trust.
 Ez=Gongressnan John Do Witt War ner is one of the best posted men in this country #on sugar tariffs. When in con gress he carried the honse for free sug- Iar In a recently published statement ho estimates the net protection to the trust given by the Aldrjch schedule at from B cents to $L14 on every 100 pounds of refined sugar
 Without attempting to give his argu- meHt as to each of the ways in which the trust would be protected we give his summary of trust profits as follows; Specific di1ferential so. 13d$0. 40 IhirtE=fEe per cent ad Yalorem
 diifeeential. #-+..,... eIH@ OBI l Gounteyailiug duty, E+.... .... 0us.g uo3 Additional by substitution of i5
 per cent ad valorem for specific
 duties ia low grades. ..#.. ......=.. 0.099 0l8 Total ....,. s............. .350$lli
 In the vast majority of cases, however, the aetuaI result is between #5 tHa @ cents per 100 pounds net protection to tha trust, and it is 1 inpracticable 80 to combine circumstances as i to bring this below i0 eents ar above GJ cents l for any considerable amount.
 As an item of tariff taxation the sug- 1T schedule is ideal lfan the protection ist standpoint. Sugar is the one article used by poor and lich to au equivalent extent, and tax ou which therefore 1 falls most heavily ea the po0f in pro- portion to their ability to pay it. It's production and distribution are control led by a concern which k at enee the i greatest of our mean tusts and the meanest of our great ones.
 It is consistent therefore that on this one article there should be levied mole than ona-third of our total tariff taxa tion, and that our people should be bur deHed by tax of more than 590 000, 2, i GOO that izes less than 870, ,000, e QUO for treasury aud more than S20, GOO, 00U for the sugar refining com bine, while the same combine is enabled to net an additional #I0, 900. GOO by the opportunity giyeait to import at present duty rates raw sugars from which it can make refined to be sold by 1t under the enhanced prico assured it by the proposed Aldrich schedule. The net ssprofection of from 45 to 60 cents per 100 pounds given the trust on its refn- ing process alone should be considered as sufficient when We remember that the labor cost of this process ls slightly less than 6 T. cents per 100 pounds-that is to say, Senator Aldrieh, in behalf of American labor, proposes unduly to tax wage earners in order t9 give the trust from five to seven times IS much pro lection as it pays fer all the labor in- Yolyed
 Next t0 the wage earner the farmer is dear to the protec5ionist heart, and he is therefore equally favored by the sugar schedule. Of late years through out the eastern and middle and many of the central states theegmpetiti0n of the far west has driven our farmers from grain raising into fruit culture This has now SO developed that except fer l exports of canned goods-iams, pre, serves, etc. in which We ought to sup ply the world, the business of fruit rais- 1 ing has, in its turn, become almost profit less. And poverty is now assured to those who are dependent upon fruit cul- ture by tho proposed tax of two cents q pound on sugar This increases by from 50 to 75 per cent tho article which Would make up from 40 to 75 per cent of the tetaI weight of the jams, etc, the export of which might insure living prices for the surplus fruits, but which is now practically prohibited
 And this is "a government of the people by the people and for the peo- pie. :" Who arc the peopIe: