The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-05-26
Plea FOR
DUTY ON
SUGAR
McEnery Declares 1t Will
Foster independence
of Other Countries

Washington, May 6-Promptly re-
suming the thread of his discussion
of the sugar schedule of the tariff
! bill, Mr., McEnery OF Louisiana, in the
senate today, dealt with the attitude
| of the Southern States and Southern
statesmen toward the policy of pro-
lection. He said:
That there is a change OF Senti-
ment going on in the South In rela-
tion to protection, was shown recent
| ly, and | hope senators from the
| South who have supported protection
' on every industry in the state, may
| extend the vision of their horizon and
accord protection to great national in
terests"
Mr.. McEnery spoke specially of the
need of a protective tariff on lumber
which industry he said employed 35,-
600 men, producing lumber worth S44,-
100000 annually.
After pointing out that Southern
| senators had voted for duty on lum.
| Der, which produces a revenue Oh 81
| 100000 annually, Mr McEnery called
| attention TO the vastly greater income
! produced by sugar which yields a rev.
enue OF $60000,0 900 II want to appeal
| to Southern senators" he declared in
, ringing tones. Ito abandon their alb
| surd ideas and theories OF the tariff
| for revenue only and vote to support
| the industries of the United States.
Thomas Jefferson said there should be
duty on the necessities of life be
hi CHI
be forced to depend on any foreign
country for Its necessaries.
81 don't base my plea for a duty
on sugar for the great revenue 1t
brings. | put 1t on higher plane
which Is the necessity for the coun-
try TO become Independent OF any for
eign government for things 1t requires.
Break down the tariff on sugar and
this country will be run over with
sugar from Europe. both refined and
granulated. and IL will stop every beet
| factory in the United States and stop
the culture of cane In the state OF
Louisiana"
If the sugar trust, he said. had vio-
lated the law the guilty men should be
put in the penitentiary. But why
geance on the sugar trust" he asked.
The Louislata senator declared that
the so-called poor mans sugar
sought by the late Senator James K.
Jones and procured through the low
sugar schedule of the Mckinley tar.
iff law, was fraud as 1t contained
16 IL per cent Of water. while the su-
gar produced in rehneries of Louisl-
ana contained only per cent OF
water. -
THAT sugar" he said was beau
tiful In color. but In taste It was a
cheat and fraud"
That kind Of sugar disappeared
with the enactment of the Dingley
bill" he said in concluding his re-
marks. and 1t would agaip appear
with 4 lowering of the standard and
under lower duty on sugar"
Mr.. Bristow followed. While Mr.
McEnery. Democrat. had spoken for
high protective tariff rate on sugar,
the Kansas senator, Republican. ad-
vocated a reduction, introducing an
amendment to strike out the provision
for Number 16 Dutch standard" and
reducing the duty on refined sugar
from one and niety one-hundredth to
one and eighty-two and onehalf one
hundredths of one cent pound.
He said, Whenever a senator en-
deavors TO reduce the existing duties
in the bill he is at once accused of
attempting TO destroy the industry af-
fected."
He insisted that the senators who
are endeavorlng to obtain reductions
in the tariff duties were the best
friends of the protective policy
They want" he declared. Ito have
the protective policy stand as a sym
Dol for American industries. and not
as a symbol for graft and greed
Illustrating his remarks by exhibit
ing bottles of sugar. Senator Brlstow
explained that, according to his view,
tne removal Of the Dutch standard test
would allow dark-colored sugar to
come into this country, and at once
so TO consumers. If they shuld desire
to have ii without the refining or
whitening process.
THE only purpose of this color
test" he said. rs to force tAe people
to pay to the American Sugar Rein.
ing company ninety cents hundred
pounds for refining that sugar"
He claimed that in order to avoid
the payment of duties on sugar of
higher color standard. the sugar trust
imports the product Of dark color and
reflnes 1t.
IF the Rutch standard were re-
moved" he said "a greater amount of
revenue would be received The Dutch
standard had been superseded as Il
standard for testing sugar by the
polariscopic test"
Holding up to the view of the sem
ate bottle OF dark crystalized sugar,
he said it was a product of Java and
sold largely In England.
HAS not that very sugar driven
out Of existence the sugar refineries