The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1911-05-18
GENERAL NEWS OF NATIONAL HAPPENINGS

\ Washington, May IL. Represents
tive Stanscn Warburton, Of Washing
ton, would put sugar on tho free list
at the risk Of utterly destroying tn
beet-sugar industry of the Unite,
States In fact Warburton woul,
welcome the destruction of thin indus
try IL its maintenance is to cost tn,
people of this country from $50, 600.
900 to $50. O0e. 900 in tariff duties
each year. All this he said in speech
which he delivered in the house OF
representatives Friday.
Sugar In this country costs at least
$l.90 a hundred pounds, the present
tariff, more than it would cost If we
bought our sugar in the markets of
the open world, = declared Warburton.
He pointed out that under the Nc
Kinley law the governmnt paid out
bounties Of approximately SO, 900, 900
a year 10 the producers Of beet-sugar.
The Wilson law repealed the bounty
provision, and the duty ultimately
was fixed by the Payne-Aldrich bill at
Sl.90 per hundred. "0ur sugar cost
us during the four years the Mckinley
act was In force $96, 900, 900 more
than 1t would have cost had we pur-
chased it in the open market. During
the three years of the Wilson law II
cost an extra $144, 900, 900 on account
of the tariff, and under the Dingley
and Payne-Aldrich laws, up to June
/, 1910, $l,444,71S,583 more than if
bought in open market free Of duty.
What have the people of this coun-
try to show for this enormous sum of
money they have expended TO promote
the culture of beet sugar? In 1890
we raised cane and sugar beets aggre-
eating 306, 900, 900 pounds and con-
sumed 3, 1872, 900, 900 pounds. In 1910
we raised In this country / IT'S, 600, 600
ponds and consumed 1890, 900, 600
pounds. By taxing the consumers of
this country 81, 800, 900, 900 from 1890
to 1910 we have increased the produc-
tion of sugar in this country 1,400.-
600, 600 pounds; we have been able
to foster the beet sugar industry in
this country to the extent of increas-
ing our production one pound for every
four pounds Of our increased consump-
ton. Will any one contend that on
this showing, even IL we maintain
our present enormous tariff, there is
any hope or prospect Of supplying our
present home market with home-
grown sugar? On the contrary, does
II not show our utter failure to pro-
mote the sugar beet industry by this
frightful tariff While our enor-
mously heavy tariff has failed wholly
in the prime object for which it was
created, II has succeeded in building
up one Of the geatest and most greedy
monopolies that this country has ever
known. "A brief study of the cost of !
production of sugar here and else
where will show clearly that we can
hope, even under the enormous tariff |
we now have, to produce but a small
fraction of the amount we consume.
The American farmers receive IS per
ION for their sugar beets at the plant.
The owners of the factories say they
,annot afford to pay more at the pre-
'ailing price of sugar. Sugar beets
produced In this country averaged
about $50 pounds of sugar for each ton
II beets. II farmer received So per
on for his beets he received about
2. 1S for ever 100 potential pounds of
ugar in the beets.
Beet sugar can be produced in !
AUSTRIA Hungary for 81. SO per hundred I
nd in Germany for So. Two dollars l
er hundred is what England pays for
er sugar and that is what we pay for !
he 1000, 900, 900 pounds we import. /
hen we add TO that the customs du- ,
les, and we have 4 cents, the pre-
ailing market price in New York. I
we remove the duty, instead of I
ngar retailing on the Pacific Coast !
Or about 10 pounds for dollar and
etailing in New York for Is TO 20 n
ounds for dollar, sugar would retail /
the United States for about 40 q
ounds for the dollar. In fact, we r
an buy our sugar and do buy our
agar in the open markets of the ii
orld for a less amount of money than .
he farmers get for the potential sugar :
fi'N tNNe's 4 ht VI lnt n
igar beets insists that, If he pays 4
per ton for beets, he cannot sell Z,
he manufactured sugar for less than n
cents per pound. Then, on what :,
'eory do we expect successfully and T,
'onomically to produce sugar in this G
'untry from sugar beets7" n
Warburton said the farmer would q
II raise beets and sell them at less r.
ian 80 per ton; land will not depre- w
ate in value; labor will not be n,
eaper and We can never hope to
Use beets as cheaply as they can be do
own abroad. 1--WE cannot econom-
nllyl make our own beet sugar when h;
E can buy sugar abroad for the same Al
ice that the American farmer gets ar
his beets delivered at the sugar IL
ctory."
Attacks Reciprocity. S.
May 10. u Vehement