The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-10-30
SUGAR TRUST WOULD
WIPE OUT BEET GROWER
SAID TO PLAN REMOVAL OF
THE DUTY ON RAW
PRODUCT.
BY Accomplishing This Object the
Trust Would Have Absolute Con-
troll of the American Market and
Dictate Prices.

| NEW YORK, Oct. 21.-The annihi
lation OF the ugar-growing industry OF
the whole country is threatened BY tn,
American Sugar Refining Company No
only has the attack been made directi,
| against the beet sugar-growers. an indus
| try that is thriving now in thirteen State.
but the growers of sugar cane in the
South must face bankruptcy if the pres
ent schemes OF the sugar trust are carried
out.
The plan is to abolish the protectiy,
system to admit sugar free of duty anC
TO turn over TO the sugar trust and it
associates the whole business of refinins
and distributing sugar
To remove the duty on sugar. protec
| ton that has started an industry which
now supplies half, and in time will sup
ply the whole country's demand. would
enable the trust to crush out competition
| and put into the pockets of its owners
| the greater part of the sum il now paws
on duty to the United States Treasury
The trusts champions estimate that the
sum to accrue 10 the people fthe trust
would be more than SS5.0O00OO each
year. aud the home industry would be
blotted ont.
No evidence that the humiliation OF
the beet-sugar industry of the country
was threatened came to light until today
when circular was published which
showed cOnclusively that this was the
TRUSTS idea. The circular was issued BIZ
Wiilett 4 Gray. whose business il is te
collect statistics of the sugar-rehning
trade. This publication recommends the
abolition of duties on all sugar. and makes
| special reference to Cuba and the cost oil
sugar in Cuba. 1t was the general opin
| ion in the sugar trade that the abolition
of the duties by Congress. where the
frrx1,S
It impossible for farmers to grow sugar
beets profitably The immediate effect
would be TO turn over to the refiners OF
sugar the whole industry free from the
aggressive competition of the growers OF
sugar beets-
The circular was considered one of the
holdest attempts ever made to prove by
figures that the public, instead of the
sugar trust. would save So. 200. 900
beet sugar industry would be killed
and that all SUGAR. instead of onlr half
of it now and all of it later. would be I'M
Dorted and that the entire trade. includ-
ing Importation and refining would be
turned over to the trust.
The circular concludes as follows
Remove the sugar duty aud the whole
SS4. 9S1 .0G0 will accrue TO the public. On
October Sth the quotation for Cuba cen
trifugal sugar 96 per cent test. free on
board Cuba. was SO per pound. and the
duty on the same amounted 70 1855 cents
per pound. which is equivalent to Sc per
cent ad valorem.r
From the circulars it will be seen that
sugar in Cuba sold for about 1856 cents
a pound on October Sth. Prices are now
the lowest on record. The duty is 1855
cents. The cost of refining. including the
margin of profit to the sugar trust as
-
mittee is half a cent a pound This
makes n total Of 4.145 cents pound. But
the refiners now. except where there is
competition of beet sugar in the Middle
West. are charging more than cents
q pound