The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-04-20
HONEST MEN GET THEIR DUES.

HE ADVANTAGE Of cohesiveness
4 IN politics was beautifully illus
trated by he action of the Democratic
members il congress Friday. With the
party uuited in securing a certain end
enough Republicans were won over to
force the removal of the differential
duty on refined sugar so long as the
% per cent reduction on Cuban imports
Is in force. If the senate can be in
dueed t. pass the bin in its present
form a sum approximating upwards of
s.. 090. 600 a year will be taken from the
Golfers of the sugar trusts and given
TO the consumers. This is practical
legislation and the country will please
bear in mind the fact that the Demo-
Gratis in congress made it possible.
The clique that has been controlling
national legislation now taste the bit
ter waters of defeat. It's members
thought they had the situation We'll in
hand almost up to the time Fridays
session of congress began They had
been 50 accustomed to running the af-
fairs of that body exactly as they
pleased that the fear of defeat never
entered their minds. aside from the
immense value of the legislation to the
people. at large. a profitable lesson has
been taught these self-same leaders
Now they will be able TO understand
that somebody besides themselves has
rights which even they are bound TO
respect.
As it passed the house, the bin au-
thorizes President Roosevelt. as soon
as practicable after Cuba has estab-
lished an independent government and
passed immigration, exclusion and con-
tract labor laws Of the same character
as those in force in the United States,
to negotiate a trade agreement with
Cuba by which the United States will
grant a reduction of 20 per cent from
( the Dingley duties on all products i'm
/ ported from that island. The agree
/ ment is to be self-acting and will ex-
| pire Dec. /. 1903. During that period
I the present differential duty on re-
fined sugar is abolished and in it's place
a duty Of 1.S25 cents per pound is to be
/ imposed.
BY the terms Of the differential duty
it has been possible to exact d higher
/ rate on sugar when imported indirectly
from the country where II is produced
J than when imported directly or when
/ imported from one country than from
1 another. The fat rate of 1.S25 cents
per pound will place every sugar pro-
4 ducing country on an equal footing g
far as the United states is concerned
/ Tt is believed that the cost OF sugar
to the consumer VIII be reduced to tht
extent of S5.O00.000 per annum by th'
i operation of this law.
! one of Aesop's fables tells about Z
terrific battle fought by two lions ovel
a particularly tempting bone. Thel
struggled furiousIy, with much less o
blood, hair and energy So evenll
: matched we're they that neither coult
gain any advantage and when bot
were exhausted a sly old fox cam
e sauntering by and ran away with tn
/ prize. Thanks TO the aid Of the Demo
{ Gratis in congress the people may b
2 Iikened TO the fox in the fable.
The cane sugar trust and The bee
= sugar trust are the lions They hav
. been fighting each other with a vicious
( ness rarely equaled in the history o
p business. Now both are defeated an
G the consumers get the profit If tn
s heads Of the trusts were not such hon
s orabie men, all honorable men, on
n might be tempted to quote the ancier
z adage: When thieves fall out homes
o men get their dues