The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1902-01-11
TIE SUGAR TARIFF.
House Ways and Means
Committee Will Give
Fifteen Days to
The Subject Beet People
Gathering at the
Capital.

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Capital.
A special to The Times Democrat
from Washington. dated Jan. 8,
says:
The committee on ways and
means today decided to set apart
fifteen days to the discussion Of Gu
ban reciprocity and concessions to
Cuban sugar.
The hearing will begin Jan. IS,
and will, it is expected, extend un-
ill Feb. I. The domestic sugar
producers are marshaling their
forces preparatory to the fight,
which will be q long and bitter one.
The most conservative observers
concede that, if a Cuban reciprocity
bill ever succeeds in passing Con
gress At this session, the summer
will be far advanced before such a
scheme will have received the in
dorsement of the National Leeisla-
ture.
~ OS~s S~5~A pSOS'N ~O'HsS ~
pared to show their books, if ne
cessary, in support of their conten
ton that the industry will not be
able to survive a reduction in the
tariff, and that such a plan, if
adopted by Congress, will mean ,r-
retrievable ruin. Howard G.
Leavitt, president Of the Standard
Beet Sugar Company of Nebraska,
IL here, and will join hands with
Henry Oxnard in fighting the advo-
Gates of tariff concession to Cuban
sugar growers.
The beet sugar people realize,
however, that they have fierce
aud stubborn fight ahead of them.
The Sugar Trust is spending money
lavishly in substituting newspapers
whose opinions are merchantable,
and is exerting ever effort to work
up sentiment in favor of Cuban re-
ciprocity. 1t IS said that certain
publishing concern, engaged in fur
nishing s'patent insides" to country
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for it's support of the "Cuban," or
trust side of the controversy. This
has resulted in the publication of
thousands of articles favorable to
the cause of free Cuban sugar,
much of which have found their
way out West.
One of these articles was pub
lished in a paper in Colorado
il the backbone and mainstay of the
people, and it came near causing
the proprietor of the sheet his life,
as we'll as his business.
1t IS said that the money now be-
ing spent by the trust in creating
false sentiment in behalf of the Gu
ban sugar growers has already
amounted to nearly half million
dollars, and that the corruption
fund is practically unlimited. The
convection is gaining ground that
the hearing to be had in a few days
will be supplementary to the report
Oh a CO1uIulSSlOD, winch IL IS no"
quite certain the president will ap
point to investigate the cost and ex-
tent of the sugar industry of Cuba,
as we'll as to learn what are its fu
ture possibilities. 1t is said the
Cubans would favor a bill proposing
a reduction of SO per cent in the
present duties on sugar and the
other products of the island trans
ported IN American ships to this
country, they in turn to reduce their
tariff on American imports a like
amount. AS they practically buy
little or nothing from US, but hope
to be heavy sellers to US under a re-
duced tariff, it is not difficult to see
the motive for the proposition. APP
parently so fair, nor to figure what
the profits of the trust would be if
such q bill could be successfully
put through Congress.
We have everything in hats, but
not the nerve to charge IS for IS
worth. Plonsky Bros.