Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1910-01-06

other countries SO hundred million
pounds. We use more than one-flfth
of the sugar produced in the world,
and we can buy more graduated SUI
gar for one dollar in any town in
Kansas than can be bought for q
dollar in any civilized country in
the world. II the beet sugar In
dustry grows at the same rate that
1t has for the last ten years, by an
other ten years we will nearly sup
ply ourselves. The complaint that
brown sugar cannot come In because
of the tariff Is not true. for the 773
million pounds Of cane sugar Is our
home product, sold on the open mar
ket to anybody who will buy, either
brown or refined, and the 1885 mil
lion pounds from Porto Rico, Haw-
ali, and the PHILIPPINES is all brown
sugar that comes in free.
have not time to go through the
entire bill, but have given you
enough to Justify my statement that
It was great revision.
have said that possibly we made
the tariff a little too low in some
places. Since we reduced iron ore
from ACC ton to 15c million tons
Of ore have been contracted in Spain
to be delivered in the Uuited States.
The freight and duty is 22hc per
ton. The freight alone on iron ore
from Michigan to Philadelphia is 25c
toa and there are 10000 voters
who are miners in the independent
ore mines of Michigan, That ore
cannot be sold in competition with
the Spanish ore, unless there is re-
ductlon of wages or a reduction on
ore in the ground.
In the lumber schedule, the mouse
bill was for $1.O0 thousand, the
senate bill was for $3.50, and the
conference committee made 1t 1925
Within week after the bill passed
! the price of rough lumber at the Can
ada mills went up 75c thousand
They get the money and we lose the
revenue.
On print paper in the house We
reduced the rate from $500 tor
to $500 a ton and put pulp on the
free list, and before our bill got tc
the senate for consideration on thi'
subject the province of Ontario pro
hibited the export of pulp wood ant
pulp, and shortly after the province
Of Quebec did the same thing
These. two provinces have practically
| all the spruce wood in Canada, ou
Of which pulp can be made without
chemical bleaching. At the tint
the Dingley law passed, wood loi
pulp was sold at s1.25 per cord-tG
the New York pulp mills; last veal
II was S1O.5O a cord. The purpose
Of the Canadians was to force oul
mills to 60 over there to make paper
or our people to go there and buy
paper.
We took the tariff off hides, which
was Is per cent upon the hides
Weighing over rs pounds, and these
came nearly all from South America
Within a week after our bill passed
the price of hides had gone up IL
per cent In South America, They get
the money and we lose the revenue
In Merino wool fleeces, the outside
fleece is very black and greasy Near
! " all the oil in fleeces is In the out
side halflnch, so wool-dealers split
the fleeces, because the outside
shrinks in securing more than the
inner part. The shrinkage is about 40
per cent of the weight, so that the
dealer who buys the raw wool in
i London, brings It here and scours
| H. buys a hundred pounds Of raw
wool and has thirty pounds of wool
to spin. We buy 1876 million pounds
annually. We reduced the rate on
this outside split as fleece because
Il shrinks more than the average 70
per cent. l met a scOtehman last
Thursday, who said; II see you
reduced the tariff on tops" said
Eyes, have you seen the bill'" and
/ he said mo. haint seen the bill
bet | had letters from my friends
lin scotland. They tell me they are
i getting a penny a pound more for
] their blsek-faced wool since America
i reduced the tariff" So they get the
money. and we lose the revenue.
/ met q friend, who said that per.
haps We did al right, but be thought
'lit would be better for all the people
lie there was no tariff on anything
land the revenue vas raised In some
other way. Theoretically, this might
no-sghlv h trus. n We could legislate