The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1911-10-18
Even Politicians Do Not Agree

Arbuckle Bros. refiners in New
York are charging the increase in
sugar to the tariff. and intending
to use 1t in Congress at the next
session. to promote their own sell
fish interests. others who advocate
tariff revision further downward.
are fair and are actuated by mo-
tives of truthfulness.
There is a tariff on sugar. The
price has advanced in 20 years 2
cents pound. The tariff is
therefore responsible say the free
traders.
This is the line of argument fol-
lowed by these newspaper dupes
of New York refiners of foreign
sugar: The housewife" 1t says,
lis paying Z cents to " cents a
pound for granulated sugar. She
used to pay cents 1t then goes
tearfully into details as to what
this advance means to the house
Wife. in the midst of the fall can
ming season, and winds up it's ar
ticIe by saying: 1T is the tariff
which makes the difference be-
tween the cents pound the
women used to pay for sugar and
the cents or more a pound they
are paying now"
1t is the same contention of mos
low tariff organs all over the coun-
try. and unthinking people are mis-
ted BY such reasoning.
There Us no tariff on coffee. II
was taken off some years ago at
the instance of the same class OF
people who are now charging the
tariff as responsible for the
crease in 1.-THE price of sugar. Then
the contention was that the tariff
was an unjust burden ON the Amer
lean breakfast table. Congress re
moved the tariff.
But coffee has increased 100
per cent In the last few months
and is still soaring. Have you
heard anything from these tariff
shouters" about 1t being the cause
of the increased cost of coffee?
Have you heard the greatly in
creased cost of meats OF all kinds.
of butter. eggs. cheese. etc. charg-
ed up to the ''robber tariff"
No. And you wouldn't hear any
thing on this subject as to the
item Of sugar were II not for the
fact that a handful of interruptions
refiners OF foreign sugar in New
York are scared over the expansion
of the home beet sugar industry.
and want the slight tariff taken
off sugar 30 they can pocket the
difference as they have done In oof-
fee. and drive the home sugar in
dustry into a hole with foreign sug-
ar made by starvation labor; and
once they control the sugar market
shove up the price as they have
done in coffee.
But for the domestic beet sugar
industry which holds down the price
Of sugar there couldn't be a pound
obtained In the country at the
present moment at less than 10 to
IA cents a pound.
willett d Gray. recognized au-
thority on sugar the world over.
say that the home sugar industry
alone holds the price of sugar down
and that 1t would be perilous for
the consumers of the country to
reduce the tariff and choke off
home production.
But. as stated. even low tariff
people do not agree. Chairman
Hardwick of the special committee.
engaged in investigating the sugar
business. is a Democrat in good
standing. and apparently a fair
minded man.
According to this Democratic wit
ness. the provoking increase in the
price of sugar is due to causes
with which the tariff has no con-
nection. These are. as he names
them. the scarcity brought about
by a 100000 ton shortage in the