The Greeley tribune., 1905-10-26
NJ. PATTERSON AND PROF. AARON
COVE SPEAK IN GREELEY
r Tell Farmers and Business Men of the
kct Upon the Colorado Beet Sugar
Industry Should Philippine Su-
gar Tariff Be Removed

pillow and care for about one acre of
land. The one planting is usually
good for ten or twelve. and some
crop, after so-called tilling with a
wooden stick or pillow. One man can
times fifteen, crops without replant-
ing. The land produces only from
one to two tons of sugar cane, espe-
cially in the poor lands near the
coast, where cane has been culti-
waited for fifty years.
by the crude methods in use,
only 80 per cent of the juice at best
can be extracted from the cane, and
dirty mess of sugar and molasses is
the result. The cost of production
and transportation to New York is
only 991a cents per 100 pounds, so it
is easy to estimate what would be-
come of the American beet sugar in
dustry should the tariff on Philip
pine sugar be removed and the cane
sugar industry of the islands be de-
veloped to its capacity and modern
methods be introduced. There would
be no need of growing sugar else
where in the world, for the islands
would easily supply the entire
market.
''In Hawaii planter told me
that he paid 81, 300 day for irriga-
tion upon his sugar plantation, and
yet they can make money upon cane
sugar there.
Wages Very Low.
1.-The cost of tilling the ground in
the Philippines varies according to
the time and condition under which
the statements are made by the
Philippine planter, but reliable sta
tistics give the laborer s to cents a
day in money and cents in rice.
But the truth of the matter is the
laborer seldom receives anything but
his feed.
According to the statement of a
native whom I interviewed, he had
lived in one house for thirty yea:s
and had a family of dozen persons.
He did not know whether he owned
the house in which he lived. The
greatest amount of money he ever
remembered to have had in one year
was So. He received no pay for his
labor from the landlord except the
few little things needed by the fam
lily as the landlord saw it.
81 asked him: How would you
like to have ten acres of land of
your own?' The answer was, 1
wouldn't have it; l have everything
| need
''The people are absolutely beyond
our comprehension. They have no
power of initiative, so far as | could
observe" "
Senator Patterson Talked.
Senator Patterson, the principal
speaker of the evening, was then in
troduced.
81 was not at all reluctant to ac-
cept the invitation to come up and
give the results of few of my OBJ
servations in the Philippine islands
as they relate to the sugar industry.
81 have been coming to Greeley
for many years in different lines OF
business. sometimes law and some
times politics. am especially gIad
to come because of a great number OF
friends here. There were few VINO
have at times imagined themselves
my enemies, but they were not. III
was simply little feeling In the
heat Of campaign arguments, ana
when it comes to question OF such
Importance as is now before us
democrats and republicans all be-
come the same kind of Coloradans.
AFTER few months spent In the
islands as member of the Secretary
Taft party, believe that l have a
clear idea of the condition OF the
sugar industry In the Orient.
II hereby agree with Professor
Cove in all he has said about the