The Lamar register., 1911-09-06
KEEPING UP THE FIGHT.
Free Traders Still Trying to Help
the Sugar Trust Kill tire Beet
Sugar Industry.

Congress to place raw sugar on the
free list at the special session failed
hut the contest is to be continued at
the next regular session and every
friend of American industry should
rally to it's support.
These few importers and refiners
have involved Congress and coun-
try in their selfish and mercenary
fight by flooding the country with
false statements and promising
cheaper sugar to the consumer II
they are given control of the sugar
business of the country and they
care nothing for the American indus
try or the consumer. except as they
can bend his influence to their pur-
pose.
They did the same thing and made
the same promise to the Ameri-
can breakfast table when they in
duced Congress to take off tariff
duty on coffee. And coffee costs
the consumer twice what 1t did
when 1t carried a tariff charge OF
five cents a pound and Uncle Sam
loses the revenue.
There is no tariff on sugar con-
sumed ON the Pacific coast. yet 1t
costs as much or more to the con-
sumer than II does in the eastern
states. These importers are careful
to conceal this fact.
The handful of importers and re-
finers in New York have three rea-
sons why they want the tariff duty
taken off raw sugar. and there the
issue will be Joined. They are afraid
OF the rapidly expanding cane and
beet sugar Industries in the United
States. Free raw sugar. produced
by low priced labor would at once
stop the development of the domes-
tic cane and beet sugar In iustries.
would enable refiners and import
ers to buy their raw sugar cheaper.
thereby deriving greater profit.
run their refineries to their full ca
pacity. and with the home sugar in.
dustries out of the way these refin-
ers would fix the price of sugar to
suit themselves-having no competi
tion-as has been done In the com
modify OF coffee.
These clashing interests will I'M
doubtedly be on the ground when
Congress reassembles next Decembe
for as vigorous combat as there
was II years ago when the Demo
Gratis. during President Cleveiand's
second term. attempted to modify
the sugar duties. But the forces are
now better organized and there Is
more at stake. Then the beet SUI
gar growers have become great
factor in the situation since that
time.
That Iusty infant. Beet Sugar
Industry. has become n competitor
for the sugar trade In the eastern
states. and the fact was made
known to the special committee
that the Arbuckles found the beet
sugar competition could do them n
lot OF damage. William G. Gilmore
in his testimony. insisted that this
competition was not Imaginative
by any means, and that beet sugar
was now sold as far east as Pitts
burg and northern New York. in
quantities which have figured In
the trade wars. and that at one
time the beet sugar people got
into New England"
Mr.. Gilmore insisted that IL the
production of beet sugar kept in
creasing so that instead of being
100000 tons year It was .5O0.-
900 tons a year. ait would shut
down most of the eastern refiner-
les for a part of the season" As
they are now protected. he regards
the beet sugar factories as "a
very serious element of competition
in this country"
That Is the milk in the cocoanut
and the real issue. II Is a fight to
produced under the American flag
finish between domestic beef
and cane sugar industries-sugai
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