Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1905-12-22
SUGAR FACTORIES AND PHILIP
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SUGAR FACTORIES AND PHILIP
PINES.
II is capable of proof and is admitted
that sugar can be manufactured in the
Philippine Islands and landed in the
port of New York at cost Of cent per
pound.
1t is proposed by the pending Philip
pine tariff bill to reduce the tariff OH
Philippine sugar to AZ cents per hundred.
If this bill becomes law, sugar from the
Philippines can be landed in New York
harbor at cost of $.oI42 per pound.
The Michigan beet sugar manufactures
pay the farmers for the sugar in the beet
ala cents per pound, delivered in the
beet sheds.
1t needs no argument to prove that if
the tariff on Philippine sugar is reduced
as proposed, the result will inevitably
be the absolute ruin of the business of
manufacturing sugar in the United States.
The only point made by President
Roosevelt and Secretary Taft in support
Of the Philippine tariff bill is that the
production of sugar in the Philippines
will not increase to such an extent as to
affect the market price of sugar in the
United States.
This is only an opinion and is contrary
to all reason and probability.
The extent of good sugar land i'll the
Philippines is almost unlimited.
The sugar industry in the Philippines
can be developed so that the Philippine
Islands can supply all the sugar con-
sumed in the United States.
With such an attractive and such favor
able tariff regulation, no one can doubt
that the sugar industry in the Philippines
will be promptly and rapidly developed
and that it will be only short time
before the manufacture of sugar in the
United States will be thing of the past.
The beet sugar industry has been a
source of great profit to the farmers and
the business communities of the State of
Michigan and every voter in Michigan
should enter his protest against legisla-
ton which attacks this industry.
This government is pledged to the
principle of protection to home industry
and there is no industry more complete
ly entitled to the full benefit Of this pro-
lection than the sugar industry.
If the tariff upon sugar is allowed to
remain at the present figure and the beet
sugar industry is permitted to develop
without hostile legislation. it will not be
many years before all the sugar con-
sumed in the United States will be manu-
featured here
The benefit of this to the farming COM
munity will be untold
In the Saginaw Valley during this
campaign over 100000 has been paid
to the farmers for beets, and none of the
factories had full supply.
The Cuban reciprocity treaty reduced
the tariff on sugar from Cuba 81 cents
per 100 ID.
1t was stated by the friends of the
domestic sugar manufacturers that the
benefit of this reduction would not 20 TO
the Cuban planters nor to the consumers
of sugar in the United States, but would
land in the treasury of the sugar trust.
A comparison Of the prices Of Cuban
raw sugar with the prices of European
sugar during the past year proves this
statement to have been correct. and Mr..
Havemeyer, himself, admits that the
sugar trust reaped profit Of 20 cents per
100 ID. out of the "a cents reduction on
last years Cuban crop, which would
amount to over $1,000 10000.
There can be little doubt that the effect
of the proposed reduction in the tariff on
Philippine sugar would be substantially
the same.
Some of the Michigan newspapers are
claiming that the effect of the proposed
reduction in the tariff on Philippine sugar
would be substantially the same.
Some of the Michigan newspapers are
claiming that the Philippine tariff bill
should be passed because the sugar trust
interests own considerable proportion
of the stock in many beet sugar factories
in Michigan and elsewhere.
1t should be perfectly clear to the peo-
pie Of Michigan that their interests lie
in having the beet sugar factories con
tinue in operation.
1t makes no difference to the farmers
Of Michigan whether the money invested
in these factories belongs to the sugar
trust or to someone else.
If the factories are operating and thu
beets bought and paid for, the benefit t.
the community is exactly the same, m
matter who owns the stock OF the diff
ferent sugar companies.
The Michigan sugar companies i
which Mr.. Havemeyer is said to be In
terested are managed by local boards Q
directors. who are opposing the passag
of the Philippine tariff bill because the
believe il would ruin the best sugar fac