The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-05-27

above 40 degrees and not above - de-
+ grees. cents gallon, anO above 30 oe-
grees, s cents a gallon.
/ Reading from letter Mr.. Bristow
| endeavorsd to show that German re
/ fined sugar cannot compete with Amer
/ lean sugar even with an advantage OF
/ 81 cents per hundred pounds over the
/ American price after the duty has been
/ paid He declared that the difference
in the price at Hamburg and New York
was not sufficient to make it possible
/ for the German sugar to compete, con-
/ sidering the quality of the American
sugar.
Needs of Sugar Grower.
Mr. Smith of NJ cnigan insisted that
/ the beet sugar grower needs encour-
/ agement and anything threatening 40
/ reduce the price of sugar beets WOul0
/ destroy the industry.
Senator Burrows said that the sugar
4 trust, in order to injure the beet sugar
! industry, had spread the report amOng
| senators that it Is in league with thai
/ industry Nh. Burrows presented COM
/ munications from all The beet sugar
/ factories in Michigan deny ng that TIT
sugar trust had any interest in any OF
4 them.
! Mr. Smoot asserted that the proper
] ton of interest OF the sugar trust a.
/ the beet sugar industry was less than
| so per cent. He proposed. he said, TO
/ show that neither the dictatorship nor
/ the profits OF the trust was enormous
I as claimed. From 1900 10 1904. he said
! beet sugar factories had increased in
/ numbers. but the uncertainty or leg 8
| iatiOn had preyeEf rs-a later increase.
/ Mr. Smc for the Fhat the market
prices from N;Ecn ne quoted showed
| cOnclusivelv that the American con-
! sumner gets an advantage of at least IS
! per cent Of the 20 per cent concessions
on sugar coming into this country from
/ Cuba. He insisted that the sugar trust
! does not own any sugar land in Hawaii
/ Porto Rico or cuba. from which free
or concessiOnary sugar is rece we'd.
Under the English policy, he said
/ that Country's refining industry had
/ been reduced from 81 per cent to 45 pei
| cent Of the home consumption.
Profits Of the Trust.
Concerning the profits of the sugar
/ trustein refining. Mr.. SmOOt calculated
| that instead of being SS,749.2sO a year,
as reported by a trade journal they
/ were 81 ,95l. 54S less than that. He quot
/ ed the price of sugar for the last nine
/ years to show that under the Dingley
/ law they had been reduced. Fhe best
way, he said, to reduce further the
| price, was to encourage the building Of
| beet sugar factories and the production
Of sugar in this country
Referring to the charge recently made
by Senator Clay that President Smitl.
of the Mormon church fixed the price
of beets, Mr.. Smoot said that if this
we're 50, Mr.. Smith might justly be
hailed as the farmers friend. since tbs
farmers are so well satisfied with the
conditions that they seek to Increase
the beet yield. He added that. instead
of $4,000 annually, Mr.. Smith receives
as his salary as president of the Utah
Beet Sugar company not more than
g. 400.
Way to Curb Trust.
Mr.. Smoot declared that the sugar
trust could be curbed by $50 to 400
beet sugar factories. These. he said
cannot be consolidated into a trust.
He stated that the beet sugar indus
try would perish unless It continued to
receive reasonable protection until
such time as. through the prevalence
/ Of superior methods, it viii be able to
stand alone.
He declared that neither the cane in
dustry OF the south nor the beet sugar
! industry could survive at present under
reduction of the tariff
He called attention to che fact that
whereas. during the last few years.
| flour has almost doubled in value. and
meat. clothing and other necessities OF
| life have increased substantially in
/ price. sugar costs less than it did ten
years ago.