Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-07-30
Long and the Sugar Trust.

Congressman Long sprung into notO-
riety two years ago by taking the side
of the sugar trust in the Porto RIGA
matter and virtually gave them 2 mil
| lion dollars which the common people
must pay in every pound of sugar they
consume. This year, according to Sen
ator Burton, he wishes to give this
trust 40 million dollars annually, said
donation to come under the head of
Cuban reciprocity.
Senator Burton is probably a much
better republican than Long, and far
more consistent. and to charge such
thing to our representative is a serious
matter and should be thoroughly in
vestigated. 1t seems Cuba cannot sell
all her output of raw sugar at remun-
erative prices. Germany can undersell
her, SO can France. Hence 10 assist
her in the sale and see that all her sug-
ar will be bought the tariff was to be
lowered 20 per cent on Cuban sugar.
AS a matter of fact the sugar trust
pays the tariff on raw sugar and by
this rebate raw sugar could be bought
by them cheaper in Cuba than else
where. A very good scheme. The sug-
ar trust paid money to have it go. They
were eiated. But alas! Burrows and
Burton were there and said to Long
yOr. shall not pay this trust 40 million
dollars in order to have them buy sugar
at certain pace. 1t certainly would
have been better and look better to
strip the bill Of it's lying subterfuge
and pass bill direct paying the sugar
trust 40 million to buy the Cuban sug
er for as much as they could stand.
Cuba must have a market for her pro-
ducts and to devise any other means
than through the sugar trust would
have been folly in the eyes of Long and
he cannot show that Cuba would have
been benefited one tarthing only
through the sale of its sugar. But the
sugar trust has large plantations In Gu
ba aud is securing more all the time,
and this 20 per cent rebate would apply
| to them. SO the whole object of this
| legislation seems to be in the interest
of the trust. When bill was passed
removing the diffeIential On refined
sugar thus giving consumers Of sugar
some relief from the trust and in a
measure balancing up the donation to
them Long was not there, and Long
never has been there in single in
stance to relieve the poor and Cypress
| ed.
Every man, woman and child are pay
ing about one dollar apiece yearly duty
on sugar, two thirds of which go into
the Golfers of the sugar trust, one of
Longs great beneiciaries.
For every pound of sugar consumed
about cents tariff is paid under the
plea of helping the beet sugar industry
| when their industry has nearly all
passed into the hands of the sugar
trust. Long has been tried now for
long time aud as legislator for the
people, as friend to the laboring class,
as promoter Of that which ameliorates
the conditions of the masses, he has
proved an utter failure. Trusts every
where do him homage. The rich and
the grOundlings praise him and sub
sidiZed press extul HIM, and backed by
rich moncpoiies he is seeking new hon
ors. His cause, however, is in the
hands of the common people and it
may be they may realize that in Long
they are not fairly represented and rel
egate him to the rear. S. ROBINSON.