The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-06-09
THE JOKER IN THE SUGAR SCHEDULE


but when it is the language of the tariff bill that affects
the thing you manufacture, it's money in your purse
bonds In your sae to clip steam yacht to take
you all the cool while the of the world that
buy your output are working for the price Oh the
mand of words in tariff bill gives you command
the food and drink and clothes of eighty millions of
Here's instance. In the sugar paragraph of the
tariff bill the magic words not above No. 16 Dutch
Standard in color"
Sounds simple, doesn't it? Probably the words with
which the old wizards raised spirits from the lower regions
sounded simple to the hearers but they raised the devil
himself when in their proper context.
The words Not above No. 16 Dutch standard in COLOR
raise the thing with sugar producers and sugar buy
when in the tariff BILL They make the sugar trust pos
sbe They give that trust that has been convicted
and over again for tariff frauds supreme power the
Cuban San DOMINICAN and avanese sugar grower far
imports here concerned. They give the trust
preme power domestic sugar brokers' sugar job
bers and grOcers So you see they magic words.
This is the of it, The duty refined sugar is 81 95
hundred pounds On sugar it is sliding scale
of 95c hundred for poor sugar testing only Is degrees
purity and 3 cents hundred additional every added
degree up to hundredwhich is pure sugar So you
may figure for yourself that sugar 95 degrees pure will
pay duty of 81 hundred, than cent and
half a pound
This is quite enough to protect Louisiana and beet
sugar growers IN the home market-quite enough. No
foreign sugar over that wall of than cent
and half pound until the American production is sold
Everybody should be satisfied, would think.
But when get to certain point putting the
duty according to purity and impose according to
another quality that has nothing to do with purity
We put in clause that says that all sugar above No.
16 Dutch standard in color must pay just much to get
In as if it pure white and 100 per cent pure. Why?
Simply that sugar matter how good how pure is
subjected to prohibve tariff if it is white enough to
be fit for the market!
The bill, if honestly worded would say: "No sugar
white enough for the market shall in This resric-
ton is made that the sugar trust may have the job of
whitening it,
No. l6 Dutch standard is brown sugar. too dark for
the table, the Kitchen the preserve factory But the
sugar mills in the tropics could if allowed make it nearly
white and SO per cent pure at the expense which
they make the dark stuff All they would have to do would
be to keep their centrifugal mills running little longer
All over Europe this sugar is served tables and used
in Factories without the fterng called refining Dr. Wiley
the food expert said 10 years ago that the color has moth
ing to do with the purity of sugar.
The Dutch standard test is the Joker in the sugar
schedule sends all the sugar imported to the wharves
OF the trust If it out of the bill the tropical mills
would send sugar white enough for use in thousand
ways If the trust would not buy they would sell to the
trade. We should have real competition in sugar Sugar
would be cheaper Food would be cheaper The preserv
ing and canning industry would be stimulated The grow
ers of fruits berries and vegetables would be benefited
Who would be hurt? The sugar trust. Nobody else
There is time yet for congress line up with the people
on this rather than with the trust.
Write your congressman and senator's