The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-27
SM0OT DEFENDING
SMITH AND TRUSTS
Continued from Page One

He insisted that the senators who are
endeavoring TO obtain reductions IN
the tariff duties weres the best friends
Of the protective policy. "They want, y
he declared, "to have the protective
policy stand as symbol for American
industries and not rs symbol Tor
graft and greed. -
Ocular Demonstration.
Illustrating his remarks by exhibit
ing bottles Of sugar, Senator BrlstoW
explained that according TO his view,
the removal of the Dutch standard test
would allow dark colored sugar to come
into this country and at once go TO
consumers if they should desire to have
it without the refining or whitening
process.
=. 1.-The II only purpose Of II, this Sol2n color
to pay to the American Sugar Refining
company 90 cents hundred pounds
for refining that sugar
He claimed that in order to avoid
the payment of duty on sugar of higher
color standard, the sugar trust imports
the product of dark color and refnes it,
s'1f the Dutch standard were re
moved,' he said. ga greater amount of
revenue would be received.
The Dutch standard had been super
seded as a standard for testing sugar
by the polariscopic test.
Holding up TO the view of the senate
bottle Of dark crystallized sugar, he
said it was product of Java and sold
largely in England
One Pointed Question.
"Has not that very sugar driven out
Of existence the sugar rcfinerles of
England?" inquired Mr.. Smith of
Michigan,
Mr., Bristow did not know about that,
but he declared that if such Java su
gar could be brought into the United
States it would permit the American
people to use it, without paying toll
TO the American Sugar refinery.
'FThe Dutch standard alone, with its
attendant tax he said, "now pre-
vents the importation of such cheap
brown sugar
~ cannot, as United States sena-
tor, say to the American citizen that he
cannot buy a cheap brown sugar if he
wants to do 500 declared Mr.. Bristow
"To do so would be tyranny that the
American citizens will not stand. "
Mr.. Bristow declared that the actual
differential received by the trust on
26.5 cents per hundred pounds to G613
per hundred since the Dingley law
went into effect
Senator Clay introduced an amend
ment to the sugar schedule striking out
the Dutch standard for grading sugar
and fixing A rate Of 80 cents hundred
pounds on sugar, cane Juice and con
crete and concentrated molasses, test
ing by the polariscope above 10 de-
grees, and for every additional degree
two cents hundred additional; re-
fined sugar, 81 hundred pounds; mo-
lasses not above 40 degrees, 20 per
cent ad valorem; above 40 degrees and
not above sc degrees, 3 cents gallon,
and above sc degrees, 6 cents gallon.
Does Not Fear Competition.
Reading from letter, Mr.. Bristow
endeavored to show that German re-
fined sugar cannot compete with Amerl.
can 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 diff
ference in the price at Hamburg and
New York was not sufficient to make
it possible for the German sugar to
compete, considering the quality of
the American sugar.
Mr.. Smith of Michigan insisted that
the beet sugar grower needs encourage
ment. and anything threatening to re-
duce the price Of sugar beets would de
stroy the industry.
Senator Burrows said that the sugar
trust, In order TO iujure the beet sugar
industry, had spread the report among
senators that 1t is in league with that
industry. Mr.. Burrows presented COM
munications from all the beet sugar
factories in Michigan, denying that the
sugar trust had any interest in any of
them.
Smoot Again Butts in.
Mr.. Smoot asserted that the proper
the beet sugar industry was less than
80 per cent. He proposed, he said, to
show that neither the dictatorship nor
the profits of the trust was enormous,
as claimed. From 1900 to 1904, he said,
beet sugar factories had increased in
number but the uncertainty of legis-
lation had prevented later increase.
Mr.. Smoot declared that the market
prices from which he quoted showed
conclusively that the American con.
sumner gets an advantage of at least l6
per cent of the 90 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 couceSSionary sugar is received.
Under the English policy. he said,
that country's refining industry had
been reduced from 81. per cent to 40 per
cent of the home consumption.
Concerning the profits of the sugar
trust in refining, Mr.. Smoot calculated
that instead of being S6,749,2 300 a year.
as reported by a trade journal, they
were 81 1,957,54S less than that. He
quoted the price Of sugar for the last
nine years to show that under the Ding.
ley law they had been reduced. The
best way, he said, to reduce further the
price, was to encourage the building
Of beet sugar factories and the pro.
duction of sugar in this country.
Defends Mormon Prophet.
Referring TO the charge recently made
by Senator Clay that President Smith
Of the Mormon church fixed the price
Of beets, Mr.. Smoot said that if this
were so, Mr., Smith might Justly be
hailed as the farmers friend, since the
farmers arc 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 S2400,
Mr.. Smoot declared the 'sugar
trust' could be curbed by $50 to 400
beet sugar factories. These, he said.