The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1905-12-20
Beet Sugar Growers Protest
Against Any Attempt 10
Revise The Tariff
CONSUMERS CONSTANT L0ss
SENATOR NEWIANDSs SCHEME
TO BUILD UP THE PHILIP
PINES - ANTI ANTEEN LAW
FIGHT ON THE WINTERS
SCHEDULE.

WASHINGTON, d, c., Dec. 90,
1905.-That sugar, which has been a
troublesome question for years in connec-
tion with the tariff, is again looming UP
as .'bugaboo" of destructive as we'll as
constructive statesmen, otherwise known
as free traders and protectionists, is
admitted in each end Of the capitol. That
this self-same sugar question threatens
to cause trouble for both parties, is like
wise looked upon as a troublesome fact.
The effort of the administration TO have
a reduction made in the customs duty on
raw sugar entering the United States
from the Philippines, with an idea of en-
couraging the industry of the Islands, has
provoked the discussion which promises
to develop into an interesting situation
ere long.
Naturally, the beet sugar growers are
OppOScu " li1G SCHCIAC. 11AS AAtso oAAS0Nt
been shown in these dispatches. In like
manner the sugar growers of other sec
tions, Louisiana and the Pacific coast, do
not propose to sit idly by and see the
tariff cut down. They are up in arms,
are the sugar men, and they are in evi-
dence with LOBBY that is active in Their
interests, and there viii be long and
stubborn fight made against aiding the
industries of the Philippines.
With the discussion about protecting
Infant industries in this country and
the usual platitudes about the welfare
of the laboring man. the fact should not
be lost sight Of that the sugar people on
both sides are thoroughly seftislr; in fs1ct,
it might be stated that they are brutaily
selfish Their own ends are all they think
about The interests OF the consumer are
lost sight of entirely, and, in fact, wholly
disregarded. OF all the legislation of the
past the consumer is the only individual
who has not reaped some benefit. 1T is
| shown by statistics promulgated by the
government that the consumers paid
| $40.G00,000 more for their sugar last
year than for the corresponding period
of 1904. just think of it! $4,000, ,0t1--
the princely income of tie Standard Oil
magnate, John d. Rockefeller, for one
year. If this continues some of the
sugar princes will be crowding even
Rockefeller as ''rich captains of indus
try
| The Cuban and Hawaiian producers
the American refiners and the American
farmers, even, are profiting, but the man
who buys and consumes the sugar at
his table is paying more and buying less
The Cuoan sugar producer made gain
| of eighteen cents hundred pounds, and
| the refner in this country gain of
| fifteen cents a hundred pounds. When
| the amount o. SuSitf lu'tt IL solu dHHuallS
is taken into consideration how these
figures multiply into millions for the
sugar man.
So fast is the beet sugar industry in
creasing that importations from Ger
many has fallen off nearly S5.000,000 in
| 1904, and more than S1,000,0O0 in 1909.
| If some of the Congressman, instead Of
splitting hairs on constitutional questions
/ would look into the subject and seek
to ascertain why the consumer does net
| get some benefit from the legislation they
would have more friends at home
Political parties as very much divided
on the sugar question. The Louisiana
/ Senators represent a constituency who
want low tariff duties on everything but
1 sugar. Other Democrats will join them
in this idea, and they will include srme
of the Western Senators who want to
protect the beet sugar men of the West,
who are doing wonders in some of the
distant States as n result of irrigation.
Senator Newlands. of Nevada. has
! evolved a clever scheme 10 aid in the up-
building of the Philippines He adyo-
Gates the establishment of an agricultu-
raj bank which the government should
capitalize at $4,000, eco for the purpose
Of loaning money to the people Of the
Islands at ~ per cent. a year. He arr
! cues that at the present rate 81 expendi-
lures the Islands would cost the United
States more than S200,0o0,0oo in the
next twenty years. If this scheme ives
successful the islands would be nude
a GUARANTEED CURE TOR
PILES