Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-01-25
BEET SUGAR AND EUROPEAN BOUNTIES.
nlulnnntnt

The Doeeret News IL asked the cues
tlon; what would be the effect OF
the beet sugar industry Of the Unltet
states II Germany and other countrIe
now paying export bounties were 4
abolish those bountles2'
The effect ought TO be highly bene
fetal Under the bounty system o
most Of the European countries The
production Of raw sugar has been ar
tlhclally stimulated, until now tbs
worlds production TX vastly IN excess OF
the worlds consumption. The aboll-
ton OF these hountlea-Hnd 1t looks
quite likely that Europe will soon
bring the system TO an end--would cur
tail production, and living chance
not only be given the Cuban planters
and Great Brllaln'B West Indian colo.
niles, but the sugar beet industry Of
this country would be relieved Of what
has long been q serious menace 10 its
prosperity,
This whole question IL 80 well treated
In recent editorial In the New York
Press that II IL reproduced entire here
With
CUBA's AID FROM BRUSSELS.
Intelligent journalistic advocates Of
concession 10 cuba In the sugar sched-
ule OF the tarih were wise enough
TO curt0ll their accounts Of the first
days hearing before the ways and
means committee, Of which the Press
gave 80 detailed summary AS the
principal witnesses for the proposed
measure were cuban planter. who
threatened rebellion against his own
government In the event OF the Amer.
lean refusal OF his demands. and a New
England capitalist, who admitted that
his Cuban sugar plantation had paid a
profit last year, though not as high az
did HE American sugar refining stock
the temptation 10 ampllfy the tale OF
the Islands wrongs" was by no means
Irresistible When the American pro-
ducer's side Of the story begins to
come we may expect those Journals
which had been most eloquent OF nc-
ton TO b. entirely reticent as 10 facts.
They will then be IN "a consistent POSI-
ton 10 abuse Congress FOR the refusal
OF the relief which the suffering
holdera pf sGGar trust common stock
hIiNNNN lli l'hNlN W ulA Utiluhi'Nl
continuance Of " per cent dividends.
The cv,dtnce, however win reach the
people. mud with Il win be some testl.
mony unguppreafed BY our Cuban
Aid' contemporaries because. we fam
oy Of rs unsupported relevancy which
the ways ana means committee should,
II possible. take measures to confirm
Officially In the London cable dis.
patches Of the same day as the hearing
appeared the following eve quote the
1rlbune's yorfioE):
"Ihe British gorornmout has at last
decided TO come v~Shc aid OF the West
indies II IS stated by the Daily Mail
that British representatives at the
forthcoming meeting Of the Brussels
conference win announce that n suHar
bounties are not Withdrawn Bnglan1
ia prepared TO Impose a couutervalln
duty"
n this program 70 carried out the
principal, indeed the only fundamental
cause OF Cuban complaint win he done
away VIII. That IL the beot.hounty
system, which an the beet-produclng
countries OF the world but the United
States have long malntalned which r.
responsible for the oyer-uroductlon OF
100000 tons to which the chief Wit
ness FOR the planters referred, ana
which ~ practically certain to be ahan-
doned II the British government has
the courage and statesmanshlp 10 take
the course Indicated IN the dispatch
above quoted. The Brussels confer
enoe is 10 meet for the very purpose