The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-29
FACTS ABOUT SUGAR.

IF'rom the Washington Post.1
The facts of the sugar situation are
much more pertinent just now than the
theories advanced by interested parties
lIessrs- Willett & Gray, sugar Stats
ticians and publishers of the Weekly
Statistical Sugar Trade Journal, sales
were made of
So test centrifugal sugar, in New
York, at slice per pound, duty
rhe ' duty Sa Is Iss5c per pound. 1855 I SS5'
1875
Freight and insurance from Cuba
Is OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. .............. .OS
Value, free on board. Cuba. cents
T The DUTY DUTY of 1855 cents per pound On
E o. b. value of 1.7S75 cents per pound
is "a per cent ad valorem.
Not long ago the same authorities
gave other facts as follows:
The steamship Dunottar arrived at
New York October %, 1901, from uoilo,
Philippine Islands, with 5000 tons of
No. sugar on board.
This sugar was sold at 9-16c per
pound, duty paid, for 50 test,
The freight and insurance was
22625
The duty. 1850 per pound. ..I1e5
Making the free-on- board value
The duty of 11s5c per pound on the
free-on-board value of 1.0675c per pound
is 112 per cent ad valorem.
Against this is the fact capable of
confirmation as stated by the same au-
thorities that graduated sugar was
made in 1901 in more than one factory
in irrigation states of the west at
cost of not exceeding to 315 cents per
pound. As the average price of gran
ulated sugar at New York in 1901 was
Sos. cents per pound and the freight to
the west one-quarter to one-half cent
per pound. it is evident that the profit
TO such factories was not less than
cents per pound. Two cents per pound
on a cost of cents is a profit of Sc per
cent, or sufficient to pay the entire cost
of the factories within three years run
ming
A Michigan prospectus states that
factory construction company will
guarantee TO produce sugar from beets
at a cost of "a cents to 81 cents. 1t
also states that any well-equipped re-
Gnery will pay for itself in three years.
The proposal under cOnSidera ton to
give Cuba a drawback or bounty of %
or so per cent would assume q much
better aspect If the proposers offer to
pay the bounty out of their profits of Sc
Some gentlemen are not overmodest
in their requests for paternal considera-
1ion of their Infant industry
The United States is chivalrous
country. otherwise it would never have
taken the part of down-trodden Cuba
against Spain: Chivalry never does
things by halves. Chivalry demands
that the United States give Cuba en-
tire free sugar, not a quarter or half a
loaf, which will prove only bare sus-
tenance to her and scarcely more than
offset what it costs her to raise sugar
above the present highly deprecated
value of the article below the cost of
production.
A present of free sugar to Cuba means
S2c- Oec- 600 less revenue to the treasury
ION crop of 1901), which can be spared
without being missed, and still leave
SD. GGO. 900 revenue on ], 000, 900 tons sugar
outside The impetus given consumption
of sugar in the United States and the
slow increase of production in Cuba
from GOO tons basis will continue the
$50 .0oc, 600 revenue on 1 000, 600 tons re-
Quired from countries outside of Cuba
for at least two years, and then be
gradually reduced as the Cuba and
beet-sugar industries grow together to
meet our requirements. The first for
supplying our needs east of the Missouri
River and the latter the entire region
beyond to the Pacific coast.
Under free Cuba sugar the beet