The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-02
A BAD INFLUENCE
The Sugar Trust Leads and Con-
 trols the Beet Sugar Factories
GETTING ALL THEY WANT

A New aJeI<er" Found In the Aldrieh Bill For tho Sugar. Trust-What tho Beet Sugar Industry Amounts to and What 1t Demands - Costly and WastefuI Business For Consumers. 1t is reported from Washington that President Taft has asked for informa- ton from the treasury department to help him to get an idea of what sort ! of relief the consumers are likely to get out of the new tariff bill on tho I articles of common use in every house hold. The explanations of the bill by Payne and Aldrich and the whole de bate in House and Senate have made it clear that such . thing as relief for the consumers was not contemplated by the framers of the bill The con sumers have all along been openly laughed at. Is President Taft begin ming to see a new light as to the pos sible influence of the consumers when aroused?
 The President Nseds Light.
 1 The president should receive all the light possible from every source. An | OpcA lGILCA VAS ASNCht1J 6ShS lO AAAAA which gave some light on the pro visions of the senate tariff bill about sugar This letter was sent by MT. Frank 0. Lowry, Secretary of the Committee of Wholesale Grocers form ed to assist in obtaining cheaper sugar | for consumers through reduction of duties on raw and refined sugar.
 | A Universal Necessity.
 Sugar is an important necessity in every household and also a material that must be used in large quantities | in the great industries of canning, pre- serving and making confectionery. l which would all be much greater in dustries in this country if they could l get cheap sugar. The present Dingley duty on refined sugar is 1-95 cents per I pound. The tarin bill now pending in | the senate reduces this rate to 1-9O cents per pound, but as the maximum l and minimum proviso adding 20 per cent to the rates Is practically certain to be imposed in the case of sugar, the tariff on this article win be consider ably higher than in the Dingley law.
 The AIdrieh Bill ~Jokers.r
 The Aldrich tarin bill, like the Ding ley and Payne bills, is crowded with 'jokers," which are only gradually be- ing discovered. A "joker'' Is con- cealed job. whereby the actual effect of the provisions of the act is other wise than it appears on the surface to be. A new joker" to the advantage of the Sugar Trust has just been made public by the New York Journal of l Commerce.
 A Trick by the Trust.
 It was known that the Sugar Trust and the beet sugar interests were op- posed to the admission of sugar free of duty from the Philippines, which President Taft favored, and 1t has been stated that the Trust opposition was disarmed by the provision in the Ald- rich bill that not more than 3OO,OOO gross tons of sugar could be imported duty free from the Philippines in any fiscal year. It now appears that this provision contains another provis2on that preference in this right of free entry is to be given to producers o1 less than 800 tons in each fiscal year Ostensibly this is to encourage the small producer, but practically ii makes the provision for free entry ot Philippine sugar ineffective, because ii discourages the investment of money in any large way in sugar cultivation in the Philippines, and sugar canno,
 be produced to advantage for export in the Philippines or anywhere else or
 any such small scale.
 This matter is another indication
 that the same old evil influence of the
 Sugar Trust, which has been in evf dence in the framing of all previou.
 tariff bills, is also busy in the Aldricf
 bill. The beet sugar interests and tht Louisiana sugar interests are in .alli ance with the Trust