The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1908-10-03
BEET SUGAR INDUSTRY
Prospers Under Protective Tarif
Legislation.
Democratic Tariff for Revenue Plan
Would Destroy United States
Sugar Industry.

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the United States think Of the Demo
cratic promise to destroy their industry
If that party should be successful?
That its pledges would. If carried out,
destroy the beet sugar industry nobody
can for a moment doubt. The tariff
plank OF the Democratic platform Of
1908 SAYS: Articles entering into com
petition with trust controlled products
should be placed upon the free list"
and tie sugar retners of the United
States are among the first group of
business men named by Democratic au-
thorities when they enumerate the
great trusts Of the land. Therefore,
according TO their platform-and MI.
BRYAN says in his speech of accept
ance that a platform IS binding upon
a candidate and that its pledges must
Ie carried out-sugar would be one OF
the FIRST articles put upon the free list.
That the effect Of admitting sugar
from all parts of the world free OF
duty would be the destruction OF the
beet sugar industry in the United
States cannot be doubted The average
cost per pound Of sugar in the country
from which we import that article has
steadily fallen from between and .
cents per pound in the seventies TO less
than 2 cents per pound in 1907, 1903
and 1904 and in view also of the
steady reduction in freight rates on
the ocean, ii goes without saying that
he admission Of foreign sugar free of
duty would put the beet sugar producer
of the United States out of business.
Democracy Disrcgards Labor.
Cheapness has been. and is the sole
cry of the Democratic party in its
tariff theory. 1t thinks nothing, APP
parcntly, OF the earning power of labor
In the United States, whether agricul-
ural labor or otherwise. The Mckln-
ey tariff act authorized the payment
of a bounty on sugar produced in the
United States and admitted machinery
for manufacturing beet sugar free OF
duty. Prior to 1890, the year OF the
enactment OF that law. the beet sugar
production of the country had never
reached 2.CCO tons In the very next
year, ls0l-lS92, it amounted to over
1000 tons in l>J2-l,93, to $1,000, and
IN lSq4-lS95 to 2OooO tons
When the Democratic party came
INTO control in the White House and
Congress it promptly repealed the law
which gave a bounty on home grown
sugar Fortunately, that industry had
lttaiued sufficient strength to be able 10
maintain itself during the less than
three years In which the Democratic
ariff was in force, and when the Re
publican party again came into power
md established a protective tariff the
acet sugar Industry again showed rapid
gains. the production of beet sugar
iumpin. from over $4,000 tons in 1896
so. the year Of the enactment of the
pmgley law. to $1,000 tons in 1899.
$500. $4,000 tons in l902-l903, 2Io,0U0
toms in lytJltUj and $4,000 tons in
.ooG-joo7
Thus under the stimulus given by the
Mckinley a,t In n bounty on beet sugar
ma the free importation of machinery
or its production, followed by the pro.
.ryt.ou au.d under the DIus.y act.
he beet ,lr product of the country
has grown ,ran 1000 tons Per 0unum
J.. I..f .tl -.-l and IFS yalun from a