The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-07-07
nIAGIE WORDS.

MAGIC WORDS.
It's an aWfully nice thing to have
command Of language-but when it
is the language of the tariff bill tina.
affects the thing you manufacture. it's
money i'm your purse, bonds in your
safe. coupons 20 clip, a steam yacf,
80 take you ali over the cool ocean
while the rest of the world that buy
your output are working for the price
oh. the command of mere words in
tariff bill gives you command over Ehe
food and drink and clothes OF eighty
millions of men.
Here's an instance In the sugar
paragraph of he tariff bill are the
magic words mot above No. 16 Dutch
Standard in color"
Sounds simple. doesn't it? Probably
the words with which the old wizards
raised spiris from the lower regions
sounded simple to the hearers, but
they raised the devil himself when in
their proper context
The words, mot above No. 16 Dutch
Standard in color" raise the same
thing with sugar producers and sugar
buyers when in the tariff bill. They
make the sugar trust possible. Thy
give that trust that has been convicted
over and over again for tariff frauds,
supreme power over the Cuban, San
DOMINICAN and Javanese sugar grower
80 far as imports here are concerned.
They give the trust supreme power
over our domestic sugar brokers, ST.
gar jobbers and grocers. SO you see
they are magic words.
This is the way of it: The duty on
refined sugar is $1:95 hundred
pounds. On raw sugar it is a slid
ing scale of Csc a hundred for poor
sugar testing only 10 degrees in Dur-
ity, and 1-2 cents a hundred addi-
tiona on every added degree up to
one hundred-which is pure sugar. SO
you may figure it for yourself that
sugar 95 degrees pure will pay dut"
of $1.65 a hundred, or more than
cent and a half a pound.
This is quite enough to protect our
Louisiana and beet sugar growers in
the home market quite enough. No
foreign sugar can come over that wall
of more than / IL cents pound
until the American production is sold.
Everybody should be satisfied one
would think.
But when we get to a certain
point we cease putting the duty on
according to purity, and impose 1t
according to another quality that has
nothing to do with purity.
We put in clause that says that
all sugar above No. 16 Dutch Stand
ard in color must pay just as much
to get in as if it was pure white and
90 per cent pure. Why?
Simply that sugar no matter how
good or how pure, is subjected to
be fit for the market!
The bill. if honestly worded, would
say mo sugar white enough for
the market shall come in. This re-
striction is made 50 that the sugar
trust may have the job of whitening
it."
No. 16 Dutch Standard is brown
sugar, too dark for the table. or the
kitchen, or the preserve factory. But
the sugar mills in the tropics could,
If allowed. make it nearly white and
90 per cent pure at the same expense
at which they make the dark stuff.
All they would have to do would be to
keep their centrifugal mills running
a little longer. All over Europe this
sugar is served on tables and used in
factories without the altering called
refining. Dr. Wiley, the food expert,
said 10 years ago that the color has
nothing to do with the purity of
sugar
The Dutch Standard test is the Go
kerr in the sugar schedule. 1t sends
all the sugar imported to the wharves
of the trust If it We're out of the
bill the tropical mills would send
us sugar white enough for use in
thousand ways. If the trust would
buy they would sell to the trade We
should have real competition in sugar.
Sugar would be cheaper Food would
be cheaper. The preserving and can
ming industry would be stimulated.
The growers of fruits, berries and
vegetables would be benefited.