The age-herald., 1902-03-23
Oxmard's Sugar Views
Aaalo1 ln New Orleans Picayune,

snecial in New Orleans Picayune.
 New York.-The Brooklyn Eagles Washington correspondent. in a long de- scription of the remarkable fight before Congress of the beet sugar men, headed by Henry Oxnard says:
 "Mr. Oxnard says that the people are now buying sugar at the cheapest retail prices the trade will probably ever know' certainly cheaper than sugar will again he hought during the next twenty-five years He gives as his reason for this the agreement reached at the Brusseis conference This will raise the price or sugar something like 1 cent pound m the next two years. This agreement Will have the effect of doing away with the artificial crops that have been developed bv bounties For instance, the German crop will take a big drop. Germany start od ont to furnish the worlds supply of suoar. She consumed only one-third of her crop. exporting two-thrds. fund of ,O00 a year was established With which to pay bounties on the two-thirds that was so exported. so that US price could be lowered to undersell Inc produc- CTS of any other country. Tor time Ger many sold lower than the growers or any nation, and Cuba's interests have been materially injured in this way. The Brussels agreement will do away witn the navment of such bountles. and the na- tural result will be that the other coun- tries will have chance to produce on more equal terms. Mir. OXnard believes that this will have the effect Of raising inc price of sugar to the consumers"
 The correspondent gives an interesting account of Mir. Oxnerds career ana the work he has done in building up tho beet sugar industry. of tho fight before Congress the article says:
 "As the committee hearings progressed the secret of the strength of the beet sugar movement gradually came out. It was revealed to the various western mem hers through the letters they received from day to day Every mall brought nrotests against any action by Congress That would hurt the beet industry and the proposition to lower the tariff on Cuban sugars was condemned in the most vigorous terms. Resolutions came in from various granger associations and agricui- tural societies while the individual pro- tests of the farmers were without num- her. The West was thoroughly aroused and lost no time in letting its representa- lives in Congress know how 1t felt
 "As early as last May Henry Oxnard callod on Chairm an Allison of the Senate
 
 appropriations committee. and laid before him the wishes of the interests that he represented. Senator Allison was not very encouraging in his promise. and so Ox- nard began tho carnpaign which ended this week in the practical defiance of the president by nearly half of his represent atves In tho House.
 .'The country newspapers were enlisted in tho movement to warn the farmers that Conrrcgs was about to kill the busi- ness of growing beets for sugar. These papers carried on propaganda of which those who read only the metropolitan dailies know absolutely nothing. They started cry that the administration favored frco trade in the products of the farms end protection for the products of trusts and manufacturers. Tho people of tho agricultural districts wore told that the President wanted to let in this country, the sugar and the farm products of Cuba, which would come in direct com-