The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-04-10
lands SET APART UNTIL
IRRIGATION ACT PASSES
Precedent Established Which the Friends of the
Measure Regard as a Good Omen.
Action Taken to Prevent Spectators From Gobbng Up Tracts
Likely to Be Watersd-Cuban Debate.

I piled resources at home and add to the
/ measure of our natural strength and
4 independence should be the object Of
/ our profoGndest solicitude.
Il am opposed to this measure be-
! cause believe il is calculated to breed
/ strife and dissatisfaction with the 9th
I er sugar countries of the world, which
are thus Disseminated against. ] be-
lieve IL viii have tendency 90 pro-
/ woke commercial hostility among the
/ other West Indian islands and our
/ neighbOrs in South America.
Violates Solemn Promise.
81 am opposed TO this measure be
cause. ia order 20 give &c effect, 1t be
comes necessary 10 violate a solemn
promise OF the Republican party delib-
erately made in solemn convention to
the American people; because 7 believe
it win be harmful 10 the agricultural
and Industrial classes of the United
states, whose great interests have been
conhded to our care: because I believe
1t viii be harmful IN the e. eTe TO
the island of Cuba, because h re
that the principal beneficiary 81 pc
the American Sugar Refining pa-iy,
who do hot need our sympa.-y. be
cause believe thar the people of Cuba
viii receive no benefit therefrom."
Mr.. Smith then entered upon a dis
cussiOn of the policy of protection,
which had resulted in the up-buiIding
of American industries. with especial
reference to the establishment Of the
beet sugar industry as a rival Of the
sugar trust which, he said, refined
and controlled 90 per cent of the cane
sugar. He predicted that the struggle
for supremacy viii be long and re-
lentless and costly.
Bad Faith Toward Farmers.
The farmers Of the country" he
vent on. have been encouraged by the
Republican party i'm their ambition TO
produce the sugar OF the country. II
was a distinct promise 30 the farmer
that he need not fear that the Repub-
ican party would permit the cheap
labor and cheap sugar Of any tropical
territory TO be brought in in any man
ner which would destroy the infant
industry of the beet sugar production
which the farmers of the United States
have under the fostering care of the
Republican party been building up
during the last feE, wears
THE lamented Mr.. DiuEley said in
the discussion OF the tariff which
Years his name. Nothing can be done
so successfully to clip the wings OF the
sugar trust as TO develop our beet
sugar industry. an5 at the same time
confer Immediately beneht on our
farmers and all our people" He also
quoted AR. Payne. Mr. Grosvenor Of
Ohio and Mr.. Steele of Indiana. pre-
dieting a erea. future for the beet
sugar industry if the tariff was not
disturbed. and added,
Believed Their Promises.
The great states of Michigan. Cali
f0rnia- New York, Colorado. Utah.
Oregon and Montana took these dis
tiuEuished statesmen at their word.
had faith in the promise OF our party
declaration; abandoned the cultivation
of wheat and corn. developing a new
industry thus encouraged.
"I know 10 is claimed that this cut
of 20 per cent viii do our present fac
tories no harm. but when the DiuEIey
law was passed and YOU invited US to
engage in this business YOU did not
say that you would even agitate a
change in the tariff. much less reduce
IL by 20 per cent" Nr. Smith main
tained thar the sugar trust would be
the beneficiary of the reduction and
not the Cuban planters.
Following Alr. Smiths effort was AIr
Norris speech.
Mr.. Morris cited the evidence Of Wit
EesseS before the committe. whom he
described as "disintereSted." to show
that the cost of producing sugar in
Cuba had been exaggerated. that in
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