The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1902-05-15
TO CHEAPER SUGAR.
HOW TARIFF CONCESSIONS MIGHT
HELP THE CONSUMER
While Reducing the Duty on Cuba-s
Raw Product the Duty on Refined
Sugar should BE Corresponding ly
Lowered-Prosp Trust Profits

If the friends of the Cuban RELIEF
proposition are really DESTROYS of doing
something for the American consumer
while relieving the Cuban producer
they can accomplish this result by
adopting the plan submitted by Repre-
sentative Morris of Minnesota This
plan, briefly stated provides that the
Iarln reduction on raw sugar shall also
apply to refined sugar. The bill as re-
ported from the ways and means COM
m1ttee makes a reduction of 20 per
cent in the duty on raw sugar, but
leaves the duty refined sugar as it
is now 1t cheapens the cost of raw
sugar to the refiners to the extent
OF the tariff reduction, without cheap
en1ng the market price of the refined
product That is what Mr. Havemeyer
meant when a few weeks ago he
nounced that the selling price of re-
fined sugar would not be in the least
degree affected by the reduction, or
even the removal, of the duty on raw
sugar He knew what he talking
about He knew that the greatest
boon that Republican congress could
possibly confer upon the sugar trust
would be to cheaper raw sugar by
means of tariff reduction, while
tanning the full tariff on refined sugar.
He knew that almost the entire bulk
of money thus lost to the United
States treasury would, in such
event, find its way into the sugar trust
treasury.
There is not a single Republican in
congress or out of congress whose
bowels of com passion yearn for suf-
fering Cuba who does not know that
in cutting down the tariff on raw sug-
ar and leaving intact the duty on re-
fined sugar he assists in swelling the
profits of the sugar trust by many mill
lions of dollars. There might be some
excuse for Republican at either end
Of Pennsylvania avenue who did not
know, or did not believe, that the 49,
600 tons of sugar held on the wharves
in Cuba has long since passed out
of the hands of the planters who
raised it and into the hands of the
sugar trust, and hence that the pro
posed RELIEF measure would prove a
hollow mockery to the original pro-
ducers of that sugar. The sugar trust
has covered its tracks so skil1fu1ly that
even Governor Wood might be par
doned for his inability to find the trail
and for publicly asserting that practi-
ca1ly all of the held-up sugar is still
owned by the parties who raised it.
Ignorance and excessive credu1ity
might possibly reach these extremes.
but that is the limit. To vote for to
approve of scheme of tariff reduction
| that w1thdrawS protection from do
nestle producers and adds millions 20
| the already swollen gains of the sugar
/ trust by leaving that concern in the
| full enjoyment of a tariff protected
| profit margin would be bad economics,
| bad craftsmanship, bad politics We
cannot believe that the Republican
| party will be made to stand for a blum
! der SO atrocious as to amount to a
| crime.
The American Economist, speakin g
| for the principle and policy of protec-
| ton, deprecates as ill-advised and uIl-
| called for the entire scheme of tariff
| reduction for the benefit of aliens am!
| to the injury of our own producers ::
| but, if any scheme of the kind shall
unfortunately prevail it earnestly
hopes that through the retention OF
J the differentia1 on the finished product
) while reducing the duty the crude
! material it will not take the shape IF
] a big prize package for the sugac
trust.