Evening star., 1909-05-26
CALLS THEORY ABSURD
McEnery Ridicules Tariff for
Revenue Only.
APPEALS TO THE SOUTH
Urges Senator's to Support Industries
of the Country.
OPPOSES LOWER SUGAR DUTY

Bristow Advocates Reduction.
Would Remove the Dutch
Standard Test.
Promptly resuming the thread of his
discussion OF the sugar schedule OF the
tariff bill. Mr. McEnery of Louisiana in
the Senate today dealt with the attitude
of the southern states and southern
statesmen toward the policy Of protection.
Referring to his remarks in the Senate
yesterday he said: THAT there is a
change of sentiment going on in the south
in relation to protection was shown re-
Gently, ,and I hope senators from the
south who have supported protection on
every industry in the state may extend
the vision of their horizon and accord
protection to great national interests"
Mr. McEnery spoke specially of the
need of protective tariff on lumber, which
industry. he said. employed $4,000 men,
producing lumber worth $4,000, 600 an
nually.
After pointing out that southern SEN
ators had voted for duty on lumber
which produces q revenue of only $Z.UU,-
OOO annually Mr.. McEnery called atten-
ton to the vastly greater income produced
by sugar, which yields revenue OF $50,
OOe, 600.
Calls Party Doctrine Absurd.
Il want to appeal to southern senator's.
he declared in ringing tones. ito abandon
their absurd ideas or theories OF a tarln
for revenue only and vote to support the
industries Of the United States.
Thomas Jefferson said there should be
a duty on the necessities Of life because
this government should not be forced to
depend on any foreign country for its
necessaries.
II do not base my plea for a duty on
sugar for the great revenue it brings.
put ii on higher plane, which is the
necessity for the country to become in
dependent of any foreign government for
things 1t requires. Break down the tariff
on sugar and this country will be over
run with sugar from Europe. both re-
fined and granulated, and 1t will stop
every beet factory in the United States
and stop the culture of cane in the state
of Louisiana. Heretofore we have de-
pended upon sugar for a tariff Now it
has grown to be q great necessity. and it
will enable us to supply the worlds de-
mand for sugar"
Why Cruelty the Peoplep
If the sugar trust, he said. had violated
the law the guilty men should be put in
the penitentiary. But why cruelty the
people to bring down vengeance on the
sugar trust?" he asked.
What we need" said Mr.. McEnery,
lis some settled policy in regard to this
industry. Capital is easily frightened,
and every time there is a revenue bill
coupled with a demand for free sugar
conditions are unsettled.
The Louisiana senator declared that the
so-called poor mans sugar" sought by
the late Senator James X. Jones and
procured through the low-sugar schedule
of the Mckinley tariff law was fraud,
as it contained 1914 per cent of water.
while the sugar produced in refineries of
Louisiana contained only 2 per cent of
water.
THAT sugar." he said, was beautiful
in color but in taste II was a cheat and
fraud.
That kind Of sugar disappeared with
the enactment of the Dingley bill" he
would again appear with a lowering of
the standard and under a lower duty on
sugar"
Bristow Advocates Reduction.
Mr. Bristow followed. While Mr. Nc
Emery. democrat, had spoken for high
and protective rate on sugar, the Kansas
senator. a republican. advocated reduc-
tion Introducing an amendment to strike
out the provision for mo. Is Dutch
standard" and reducing the duty on re-
cent a pound. he said: Whenever a sena-
tor endeavors to reduce the existing
duties In the bill he is at once accused of
attempting to destroy the industry af-
fected."
He insisted that the senator's who are
endeavoring to obtain reductions in the
tariff duties were the best friends of the
protective policy. They want" he de-
clared. "to. have the protective policy
stand as symbol for American indus
tries and not as symbol for graft and
greed
Effect Of Dutch Standard Test.
Illustrating his remarks by exhibiting
bottles of sugar. Senator Bristow ex-
planned 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.
"The only purpose Of this color test"
he said. lis to force the people to pay to
the American Sugar Refining Company
90 cents hundred pounds for refining
that sugar.
He Cla1nleU tnaL In Oruer 10 dNOlQ the
payment Of duty on sugar of higher color
standard the sugar trust imports the
product of dark color and refines it. If
the Dutch standard were removed. he
said, greater amount Of revenue would
be received. The Dutch standard had
been superseded as a standard for test
ing sugar by the polariscopic test.
Holding up to the view of the Senate a
bottle Of dark crystallized sugar. he said
IT was a product of Java and sold largely
to consumers in England.
HAS not that very sugar driven out of
existence the sugar refineries of Eng
land?" inquired Mr.. Smith of Michigan.
Mr.. Bristow did not know about that,
but he declared that il such Java sugar
could be brought into the United States
it would permit the American people to
use 1t without paying toll to the Amer
ican Sugar Refining Company.
THE Dutch standard alone. with its at
tendant tax he said. nov prevents the
importation of such cheap brown sugar"
MAY BE ST. MARY FUGITIVE.
Young Man Seen Near Warrenton,
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