The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-05-09
FREE SUGAR IS
WELL ROASTED
DECLARED IN CONGRESS TO ne
ULTIMATE DESIRE OF
THE TRUST.

That million dollars head for
enough men to vote sugar on the FREQ
list would be paid by the Sugar Trust
is the statement made by Representa-
tive Fordney Of Michigan on tho floor
Of the house recently, according TO the
Congressional Record Of April 10. Ford.
ney was ON his feet with hot answer
to Representative Kitchen Of North
Carolina, who had made FREQ trade
speech in favor Of the Canadian reci-
lprocity resolution several days previ.
ously, and after passing out general
roast to this measure as relating to the
farmer s interests, Fordney got busy
on sugar.
''The gentleman from North Caro-
lima spoke about cotton" he said.
Somebody on this side Of the house
said to him, If you will vote for free
lumber, 1 will vote for free sugar.
lie said, why, viii vote for both of
them DID you ever see anything that
had the word free attached to it that
he would not vote fort
''The gentleman from North Caro-.
lima said he would vote for free sugar, -
continued Fordney. tSugar is not in
tho bill, but it bears upon this subject,
We have but one trade treaty upon our
statute books today, and God forbid
that there ever be another like it. That
is Cuban reciprocity. have talked so
much about that subject that / am
called crank on sugar, but let me call
your attention brify to few facts and
figures. 1 was in congress at the time
that bill became a law. / protested
against it and voted against it then
Thank heaven it never became a law
by my vote. The balance of trade be-.
tween this country and Cuba at that
time was $s,000,000 a year in favor Of
Cuba. Last year it had grown to the
J enormous sum of $70,O43,000.
Let me tell the gentleman on this
side and on that side of the house what
you did when you voted for Cuban reel
procity, You lowered the duty on sugar
coming from Cuba twenty per cent be-
low the rate paid ON sugar coming from
all other countries, which are all coun-
tries except our insular possessions.
You reduced it twenty per cent. We
have imported from Cuba during the
life of that treaty 11,50000O tons of
sugar. This reduction of twenty per
cent below the Dingley rate on that
sugar sums up $77, $4,000 the first day
of January last.
Have the consumers of sugar in
this country purchased their sugar for
! any less money than they did before7
| No; Notwithstanding the fact that the
worlds supply of sugar before and
after the adoption of that treaty has
. been plenty, notwithstanding we have
, never had a famine on sugar or n short
r crop, so that the country's supplies
: would be advanced on that account, we
have not bought sugar for a fratcion of
, cent-3ess.
fThis is step in the same direction.
i Do not forget when you voted for re-
duction of the duty on sugar coming
from Cuba, and when you vote for the
, reduction of the duty on goods coming
, from any country in the world, instead
) of voting in the interest of the con-
sumers of this country you are voting
= money into the pockets of foreigners
or some one other than our consumers. >
a 81 want to call the gentleman's at
/. tention,p interrupted Kahn of Califof-
! MIA, "to this fact, that under the re-
T ciprocity treaty with the Hawaiian
e Islands, which was entered into during
0 the seventies, sugar was brought in free
: from those Islands. The duty was re-
t moved entirely. The result was that
a the sugar was not reduced in price TO
t the consumer a fraction of cent, but a
: number of men who did the importing
0 became multimillionaires as conse-
$ quence.
=. Fordney accepted the suggestion and
concluded:
i "And SO when the gentleman from
a North Carolina says that he will vote
: for free trade on sugar / am safe in
Q saying that the. sugar refining cOmpa-
: MES in this country would pay a mil
/ lion dollars a head for enough men of
o the same opinion, until sugar is pat on
y the free list. / impugn no dishonest
: motives to him at all. Do not so mis-
s. understand me or any other man, but
men who will vote for free sugar are
misguided. That is the point. 1t il
/, well known that the Sugar Trust of thii
country has been recently prosecuted
for dishonest methods, and say any
thing that win give them an advantag,
over the domestic industry they would
N move heaven and earth to bring about
SO criticize my friend from Nortl
Carolina for being free trader OF
# sugar / am not.
"NOw, / am going TO close. have
= detained the honse altogether too long
" much longer than had intended, bu
1 have tried in my plain way to ex
4 press to you my Judgment about The
enactment of this law, to show that il
t. it is put upon our statute books il
O. means the death knell to the farmers
Of this country"