The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-05-20
SNOOT ENTERED
STRONG DENIAL
Iooanh F. Smith Charged With
Fixing Price Of Sugar
BeetS in Utah.
SENATOR BACON'S SPEECH
-,us7 BAKED FORE AND AFT BY
THE GEORGIAN.

.Ffv~sshinEtOn. May l9.-Declaflhs
NJ Tcseph F. Smith, the head OF =
.Eo harmon church. every year ::
80 the price Of beets in the inter
-. NJ the beet sugar factories OF =
J-tsb rather than in favor of the =
--5urars OF beets, Senator Clay IN :.
- senate today called forth '
..iLsracterizstion of his statement :
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. er,-ot himself an official of the :.
. sIo.mon church. Mr.. Clay declared =
> rot Mt smith, as president OF the =
= boet sugar factories Of Utah, re- :.
: lived $4,000 annual salary. He -
. 5s slvravs i'm favor of the factories =
. and against the growers, said MI. :
:: Clay. ,.,-. Eli. :.
}. statement. Mr. Clay declined to be =
:. interrupted further.
: Mir clay declared that votes al =
d. readv taken in the senate demon :.
!. strating that the finance commit =
!. fee had full power to obtain agree =
y. Dent on its tariff bin as reported. =
:. be favored an early vote on the bill =
4. ae dslsv was useless in affecting ::
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Washington. May l9.-Severeiy ar
,,ipninc the so-called sugar trust, and
urging material reduction in the duty
op refined sugar Mr.. Clay of Georgia
TODAY discussed at great length the va
rfous nhases of the beet and cane sugar
industries. He argued that the con-
SINNER Is Disseminated against in favor
of the American Sugar Refining COM
pany and that the sugar grower gets
ro benefit of the difierential between
the duties on raw and refined sugar. He
criticized most severely the manner in
which the sugar schedule of the Payne
bin was framed
Conteuding that the American Sugar
Refining company owns the principal
refneries in the United States and Is
almost without competition i'm refining
sugar. Mr.. Clay declared that the duty
on refined sugar almost prohibits the
Importation of foreign sugar into this
country. He said that the beet groves
and the cane grower OF sugar both are
compelled Co self to the sugar trust al
She price which it fixes. Comparing the
wholesale price of GRADUATED sugar il
hamburg and New York, which he sale
was 21 cents per pound cheaper il
Hamburg, Mr.. Clay figured that tn
American consumer pays a difference o
Si55.6S0 600 for its refined sugar. o
this. Dc said. the government gets $50.
100000 in customs duties. while, he said
the sugar trust gets the other $4,000, 00l
Should Be d Reduction.
"The American consumers of suga
have paid to the American Sugar Re
fning company, commonly called IN
sugar trust at least $50, 600, 900 per yea
in profit" said Mr.. Clay, amounting il
twelve years to S660,00O. 900. The Amer
lean people are not aware of the fac
that if the sugar we import came int
this country free of any duty. both raw
and refined, the cost of sugar 10 tn
American consumer would be reduce
nearly oue-haf. ] am not insisting tina
both refined and raw, or either, shout
come to this country free of duty. bu
there ought TO be a substantial reduC
ton over the rates fixed in the Dingle
law"
Replying to the argument that suga
is great revenue producer. Mr.. Cla
desired TO know why one of the necessi
ties of life, used by the entire America
people. should be taken and its cos
increased to the consumer one-ha'
when, he commended, the amount of th
revenue now produced by sugar coul
easily be supplied by an income tax.
Let us give to the American poop
cheap sugar" continued Mr.. Clay. LIZ
us grasp the sugar trust by the thros
ana strange it 10 death. and keep
view the interest the happiness an
Welfare of the plain people of Americ
We must remember that sugar is a
important article Of food daily COZ
Sumed by every man. woman and chi
I'D the country"
Same as In Dingley Bill.
Saying that the American workin,
man, during the last few years, has Ia
haFd time TO earn a living, Mr.. Ola
deprecated the fact that the duty {
tenned sugar remains In the Payne b
sloSJantialy the same as it is i'm Il
Dngley law. He said that the sugi
1ust had no representative before Il
taIli framing committees of either Il
-olse OF the senate, and added: "Jud
Is from the treatment which the sug
rust has received, this cor 1orati,
Leeaed no representative before eth
committee"
What the Figures Show.
taking into account the reciproc.
guy on raw sugar from Cuba, the T
Nlleu duty ON Philippine sugar and I
- sugar from the Hawaiian islam
anu Porto Rico under the DiDpIev Ia