The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-06-04
viii Promote Domestic Production
Curb the Trust and Insure
Beneficial Competition.

John l.. Howard, president Of tn
Union Sugar company, this Afternoon
in the open Forum" Of the Chambe
Of Commerce, made a strong plea TO
the beet sugar industry OF America
in which California has a large inter
est. He declared that the effort nov
being made to have Congress remove
the duty on raw sugar was inspired
by fear that the rapid increase Of the
number of beet sugar factories would
put an end to the importation of raw
material. Mr. Howard said:
Turning to the situation in our
own country, we find the consumption
in 1911 to have been 3,902,s7l short
tons, derived from the following
sources:
Tons.
Domestic cane from Porto ri.
co, Louisiana, Sandwich ISL
ands and the Philippines. 1.44O,6l1
Domestic beet -. .......... 6O6,O33
Total domestic ......... .2,O46,644
Imported duty paying cane
From Cuba $500. 1,5S6,34S
From other foreign
countries ...... 269,S79 1,S56,227
Total ... -. ........... 3,9O2,S1l
Attention is especially directed to
two facts:
First-That our supply of domestic
beet and cane satisfied one-half Of
our needs.
Second-That our deficiency Of
1,S5O,OOO tons was purchased from
foreigners.
II is believed that Porto Rico, Loui.
siana and the Sandwich Islands are
close to the limit Of their productive
capacity, and emitting for the mo-
ment the influence which the Philip
pines may have the solution Of our
nations problem of self supply points
directly to the expansion Of the beet
sugar industry. ,,'.~...
Progress Of the Beet Sugar Industry.
What has been the progress in the
United States?
In 1SSS.S9 two factories produced
2,0S4 tons, in 1889 fifteen factories
produced 36.337, in 19Os-O9 sixty-thres
factories produced 43O,O91, and in 1871
seventy two factories produced col.
800.
In this period OF twenty two years,
but representing a real activity Di
only twelve years, our beet sugar
output has grown to 10 per cent. OF
that Of France and % per cent. OF
that Of Germany.
This is submitted as remarkaJls
example of substantial progress.
The beet sugar industry has not
the right, and II does not claim the
right, to any public or governmental
recognition that It does not freely &C.
cord TO the cane sugar produced in
the United States and its dependen
cies, but II does ask the right and
the opportunity to enlarge its demon.
strated possibility to displace the t.,
$4,000 tons of cane sugar purchased
from foreigners at an annual cost OF
over $l00,O00,000 and to distribute
that amount of money among the ag
ricultural and industrial interests II
home
Furthermore, the refining Of these
$4,000 tons OF foreign cane sugar
necessarily landed and treated at a
few seaboard points, involves the eN.
penditure of not exceeding $40 per
ton, and this represents the annual
distribution OF slS,5OO,OOO for labor
and supplied in the communities OF
Boston, New York, Philadelphia ana
New Orleans.
The production of beet sugar rep
resents a distribution of $40 per to
II, therefore, the l,S50,O0O tons OF
foreign cane sugar were displaced by
beet sugar from our own soil, then in.
stead of the payment of 800, 100000
to foreigners and the distribution Of
only SlS,5O0,00O among our own
people, we would have distribution
OF 500, 100000 not concentrated in a
few seaboard communities. but scat
teced over the wide beet growing |
ares of our country wherever capital
could be induced to establish the fac.
tories.
Free Sugar Would Not Curb the Trust
There are ConereGsmen, editors and
citizens possessed of the os,'pf hat,
in some way the n clifton OF tho pres.