The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-07-02
THE SEATTLE STAR EDITORIAL AND MAGAZINE PAGE
MAGIC WORDS

lis an awiully nice thing TO have command OF language
but when Is the language of We tariff bill that affects the
thing You manufacture It's money in yong purse bonds in
your safe coupons to clip steam yacht to take you all over
the cool ocean while the OF the world that buy your output
are working for the price, Oh the command Of mere words
in tariff bill gives you command the food and drink and
clothes OF eighty millions Of men.
Here's an nstanee In the sugar paragraph OF the tariff
bin are the magic words above No 10 Dutch Standard in
color"
Sounds simple doesn't III Probably the words with which
the old wizards raised spirits from the lower regions sounded
simple to the hearers they the devil himself when in
their proper context
The words mot above No. 10 Dutch Standard in color
the thing with sugar producers aud sugar buyers
when IN the tariff bill They make the sugar trust possible
They give that that has been convicted and over
again Tor tariff frauds, supreme power the Cuban San
DOMINICAN and aanese sugar so far as imports here
arc concerned They give the supreme power over our
domestic sugar brokers' sugar iobbe and goees So you
they are magic words
This is the way OF The duty refined sugar 81 95
hundred pounds On raw sugar sliding scale Of 9sc
hundred Tor poor sugar testing only Is degrees in purity and
81 hundred additional every added degree up to one
hundredheh pure sugar So you may figure It for your
self that sugar IS degrees pure will pay duty OF 81 o5 hun
bred than cent aud hall a pound
This quite enough protect Louisiana and beet
sugar can come over that wall OF than cent and half
pound until the American production is sold Everybody
should be satisfied one would think
But when get a certain point putting the
duty according 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 10
Dutch Standard color pay just much to get in as
it pure white and 100 per cent pure, Why1
Simply that sugar, how good or how pure,
subjected to prohhitve tariff if is white enough to be fit
for the markell
The BILL Il honestly wofded. would say No sugar white
enough Tor the market shall in This restriction is made
SO the sugar may have the job OF whitening it,
Ne 10 Dutch Standard is brown sugar too dark Tor the
table the kitchen the preserve factory But the sugar
mills in the tropics could il allowed make It nearly white and
% per pure the expense At which they make the
dark stuff An they would have do would be to keep their
centrifugal mills running little longer Al Europe this
sugar is served on tables and used factories without the I'LL
terng called refining Dr. Wiley the food expert said 0
years ago that the color has nothing TO de with the purity of
sugar.
The Dutch Standard test the joker in the sugar sched
ue 1t sends all the sugar imported To the wharyes Of the
II Of the bin the tropical mills would send
US sugar white enough Tor thousand Ways. II the
trust would buy they would sell the trade We should
have real competition sngsr Sugar would be cheaper
Food would be cheaper The preserving and canning industry
would be stimulated The growers Of fruits berries and vege
tables would be benefited