The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1912-04-03
WHY DID THEY SINGLE OUT
SUGAR?
Louisiana Justly lnSiigDent Over
Action of the Free Traders
inl Congress

Its existence in this country by
promoting home sugar crop pre-
vented them from soaring very far
beyond the highest figures they
reached in the autumn of 1911.
and the winter of 1912. The
people might have been easily
made to comprehend that condi-
tion by their Representatives in the
present congress. But with pur-
pose aforethought they were kept
ignorant and blind about it. The
popular hostility to sugar engen-
dered by the iniquities and Oppres-
sions of the sugar trust and in
creased by the rise in prices which
they did not comprehend. and were
purposely kept from understanding.
was. and is. being played upon in
a spirit entirely indefensible and
for political effect to gain a pass
ing party advantage.
This Is unworthy OF the spirit and
principles of that Democracy which
rose into partial legislative pow
er through the party promise of
general revision downward.
Knowing that sugar as the great
home product Of our American
farmers and planters was entirely
undeserving Of the popular hostil-
ity that has been aroused against
1t by the rise OF price due to the
great crop shortage caused by an
ing. season over half of the world.
=unfayorahle growing and harvest
they have played upon that senti-
ment of unreasonable hostility by
practically combining that tariff
revision downward to sugar. by
proposing to entirely eliminate
the sugar duties. and to utterly
the sugar duties. to throw away its
$55,OOO.OOO of revenue duties. and
to utterly destroy the several hund-
red million dollars invested in its
production by American farmers.
planters and manufacturers.
Let US see the bad faith that
singles out sugar to supply all Of
that revision downward. The prom
Use was made that among other
leading Industries iron and steel
manufacturers should come in for
a fair share of the determined
downward revision.
While, under the Democratic
principle of a tariff for revenue.
with incidental protection. sugar
was the ideal article on which
to fix import duties, as it gave
the government nearly sixty mil
lion dollars annual revenue with
out burdening the people. iron and
steel manufacturers gave the gov
ernment, comparatively to sugar.
no revenue and the tariff thereon
just so much unnecessarily raised
their cost to the people.
Mr.. Carnegie himself. the great
multi-hundred millionaire magnate
of our manufactured iron and steel
lated his immense fortune through
a high protective tariff-testified
before our American congress that
our iron and steel Industries need
ed no further protection. as we
could practically defy the compe-
tition of all nations in producing
such things at home. and we
were largely exporting such man
ufactures all over the world.
Mr.. Underwood of Alabama. the
chairman of the Committee on
Ways and Means of this congress.
and chief advocate of free sugar.
represents the greatest iron and
steel producing and manufacturing
district in the South. with Birm-
ingham as its center. Within the
period of his own life, since the
attainment of his majority. Mr..
Underwood has seen the great iron
and steel producing city of his
district grow from an unimportaist
village to a great and flourishing
city of 100000 population. All
- .hok o-orp,oua Growth and nm.