The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-10-04

We arc all Interested IN il and an have a
nance 10 get our proportion Of these go
factories.
Sugar Industry Menaced.
viii say however. that this great in
hefltance is in jeopardy. and without
united action we are liable TO lose IT,
ih tne PhlHppinc Islands there is enough
wen definvd cane sugar land to supply
llte enLIc WOrlu with an the sugar il con
sumes. 1h5 islands have exported in a
single ear more sugar than an of our
uIJy-fCur beet sugar factories produced
last year. With LABOR at TO 10 cents per
gay the largest sugar corporation IN the
lsldnQs was able IN 1895 TO produce sugar
Ilu-l Zz.Uyy acres OF cane al a cost of IS
cents Per 100 pounds. while from am cX-
perlmen,al plot they produced It at a
cost Of l2i2 cents per leo pounds. The
1 freight rate from Manila to New York is
but p to 3ia cents per hundred, or less
tnan the rate on sugar from Omaha or
Kansas City to New York The Islands
asked FOR reduction Of American tariff
rates on Philippine sugar and tobacco
and congress granted them a % per cent
reduction. The islands asked for a de-
oaseQ currency with which to pay their
ignorant labor ard congress gave them a
50-Cent dollar Congress is now being inn
Tortuned 10 grant them practically free
admission for their sugar and tobacco into
the United States markets to withdraw
the operation Of our contract labor Jaws
so Tar as the Philippines arc concerned.
and allow the introduction of contract
cooIe Chinese labor, and to increase the
number Of acres which a single corpora
ton my hold firm the present limit of
ZoO0 to 10000 acres in order to encourage
the estd oHSnment or vast sugar estates.
20 be operated by the cheapest semi slave
labor i'm the world and compete with our
well paid American labor. Once let con-
gTeSs grant the concessions which are
now being asked for the Philippines and
the 600 beet sugar factories which we
nope 10 erect I'm arid America will be
erected in the Philippines and our sugar
q nF0i- La Aein
The prinCely inheritance of supplying
the American people with $3.50. 900 900 worth
or sugar now grown in foreign lands be-
longs 20 arid America and not to Asiatic
islands and If we are to save this in
herltance we must let our legislators
know that we are claiming fl and must
fight for il in the American congress.
The production of sugar is not as yet
great Industry in the Philippines. At
present the value Of their sugar exports
constitutes but mere fraction Of their
total agricultural exports, Of which hemp
alone forms over 50 per cent. We an
nually consume over Sl50.O00O 900 worth of
purely tropical products. of which we
can never hope TO produce q pound and
an OF which grow to perfection in the
philippines and form the bulk of her
exports
Without Injury to any American indus
try. we can and should encourage the
tllipincS to produce these nom COmpetf-
tive products which we now purchase Of
oIner countries and for which we can
offer an unlimited market for all time.
II with or without reason any Of our
western senators. or congressman decide
70 vote for Philippine legislation which
IS inimical to our interests let them do
II with their eyes open. fully understand
ing That 1t is against the expressed
WISHES, desires and requests of their con-
sutuents, and let them take the conse-
quences. You cannot afford to sit idly
py' lose your greatest industry and then
be told that it was done through either
Ignorance or inadvertance. To he safe
you must put your legislators on record.