The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-08-21
Daily 49, Eaale
WHAT ITS DEFEAT WILL COST.
M. Nj. MURDOCH, Editor.


Now Cuba is talking retaliation in the Of tariff
We sold Cuba $4,000 worth of corn year. Cuba
to increase the duty on corn 1873 per cent Our sales
wheat Cuba year amounted to s2OOooeo anc
our trade in that line is growing Cuba proposes to raise
the duty on -four 100 per cent
The action is not yet taken The Cuban senate has
authorized changes in the tariff including these items
and the schedule is President Palma for ap
proval
This will be dear price to pay for the beet sugar
graft heavy penalty undergo for the sake Of Mr.
Oxnard and his crowd
Cuba was pledged the reciprocal arrangement The
Oxnard crowd prevented carrying of that pledge
in the last session of Congress If had been carried
out it was the plan of Cuba to tariff wheat
and -four.
The western farmer over whom Mr.. Oxnard and his
crowd have many crocodile is then to pay
for the defeat of Cuban reciprocity.
And to what end? To the end that the American peo-
pie shall pay a tax of 2 pound upon over two
million sugar. that Mr.. Oxnard and his crowd
who manufacture handful of sugar, may profit
william E. Curtis the Washington correspondent ex
poses the beet sugar graft recent letter He says:
'he statistics published in number of the Crop
ment show the insgncance of the beet sugar industry
compared with other that have been sacr
feed by the minority Congress order that Mr.. Ok
nard and other manufacturers may receive unnatural
and artificial profit.
The total production of beet sugar in the United
States during calendar year 1901 124S5s tons.
The total consumption of sugar the United States
during that year was 2,372,S16 tons
Thus the people of the country are asked to pay
of pound upon 2,372,916 tons Of in
order tsa the manufacturers 124S59 may make
q profit It may said however that during the war
with Spain extraordinary military expenditures
the Philippine Islands the government needed the
revenue But does not need it any longer, the
only argument now advanced in favor of maintaining
duty is to protect an infant industry Mr. Oxnard
who has factories in California and Nebraska the
largest manufacturer of beet sugar in the United States
admitted winter Washington that inter
could 25 per cent reduction the duty on
sugar but he willing the cut made for
fear Of establishing bad prece lent That is he>dfd
not Wal: one cut for fear some time Congress would
make auother
Congress was not able to ind cut the exact cost of
manufacturing beet sugar The manufacturers declared
that depended entirely upon the price paid for
that the reduced price cut the loss
would fall upon the farmers who raise them
According the 185.2o5 acres were planted
to beets 1900 producing 1868 34S5
800 Of these 676.344 valued s2.96Os4S were
raised by the farmers The remainder were raised by
the factory people
This total has considerably increased since for the
Of produced that year only 1858 TONS
while the amount produced last year 124S59 tons
The following table shows the number of beet sugar
factories in the United States their location and their
nominal daily capacity in tons OF beets: