The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-11-10
LOST THEIR DIGNITY,
lRISTOGRATIC REPORTERS At.
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of sentiments Impressed by Anarchists
and soota-is:s-A Real Lively Meeting IF
the uassaohusetts Reform club.
The once yociforous Morrison 7 s,vilr
and his enthusiastic followers raea1,, il.
Obliged in hotter talk of r0bbyr trusts ro,.
Der barons and coming revolution Than
the members Of the supposedly scGate and
conservative Massachusetts, Reform clnb
listened to from several speakers at thair
dinner at Young's recently.
And, what is more some Of tf,. l;vc7fo,+
talk was heartily applauded by mcpbnrs
of the club.
Byron W. Holt, an expert in regard f,
tariff legislation, who has been connected
with the New York Reform club for ss,..
eraI years, made an address with the ~rv-
ar trust as his theme.
He characterized that organization as ,
persistent and shameless lawbrcakcr and
its chief spirits as corruptionists and tba
worst kind Of anarchists
Mr.. Hollis address, which must have
represented an immense amount Of ipycs-
tigation and labor, would fiji alone dive
or six columns Of the Boston Globe blrr
this is the substance of it:
The retail price Of granulatcd smear
which constitutes nino-tenths of all srgar
consumed in Americans today about ~.
cents per pound OF is pounds for ~
When you invest 81 in sugar. Won nav
about 80 cents Ior sugar and 45 cents 'fn,..
tariff.
AT present out Of this tax of As cents
the government is getting about 20 cents
the rcfincrs' monopoly 20 cents and the
sugar growers and Wholesale sgrocrrs the
remaining . cents. Next year when re-
fined is made from raw sugar upon which
present duties have been paiG. the govern
ment viii get about 20 and the sugar trust
IS Of the 45 cents
"Of the SIS which the average family
will spend this year for sugar in various
forms $40 will go for sugar, 81. 80 to The
government. So to the Sugar trust and 80
cents to sugar growers and Wholesale
groccrs.
AS our sugar account amounts to
about 5000, coo, 600 q year, the trust win
this year pocket about $40. OOO. GOO OF or
sugar tax Nearly $40, GOO. 0un more will
go TO sugar growers. wholesale .rac..r, and
Sandwich Islands spectators. who are the
chief beneficiaries of reciprocity.
Our sugar bill equals or exceeds oar
flour bill. Sugar is today as inlrortanr an
article of food as is bread. Tn Enp'ar4
where it is untaxed, it is as inu0rtanb a
raw material for other industries as is
-four 1t should be so in America. and
would be so but for the tax. No party
would think of doubling the price of bread
by taxing it. and yet the sugar tax is as
great a burden upon the people and upon
industry.
BY not taxing sugar England reduces
the cost of living there by IS or SO per
family and makes herself the great center
Of the canning and preserving industry of
the world. Tens of thousands find en-
Cloyment in England and Scotland in
ese industries Not only this, bIt her
farmers and small fruit and vegetable
growers are certain of market for their
products.
In the United states taxed sugar, tin
and glass have prevented the canning in
dustry from amounting to much. While
we are eating imported preserves, jams
and jellies, millions Of bushels Of our
fruits and vegetables are rotting on the
ground for lack of such a market as cheap
sugar would give them. Many abandoned
farms in New England and the middle
states might become very valuable if the
duty on sugar were permanently re
moved "
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