Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1912-03-18
Democrats in Congress Have
Standpatters in a Hole on
Sugar Schedule
CARRIES INCOME TAX
The New Bill Will Save Con-
sumers a Hundred Million
Dollars a Year

Especial correspondence OF the Her
:ald.)-The Democratic party in the
House of Representatives has put the
Republicans in hole and soaped the
sides and pulled up the ladder. Their
latest move has absolutely astOund
ed the Republicans and made their
eyes bulge out like buck eyes on 9
mud wall This consummation de
vOutly to be wished has been brought
about by the move the Democrats
have made in bringing bill in for
free sugar and an amendment to the
Excise Law which will produce the
same amount of revenue cut off by
free sugar This proposition means
by taking the tax off of raw sugar
will cut down revenues of the gov
ernment about $5O,O00,00O.0O per an
mum. BY adding the amendment to
the Excise Law, which will tax all
incomes over $5,OOO.00 year one per-
cent, means that 100000, 100000 a year
will be added to the revenues, thus
adding not less than $10,00O,OO0.0 90
per annum more than was received
by the sugar tax and saving the con-
sumers of this country not less than
$10O,O00,000.00 year in taxes. and
compelling the rich people of this
country to pay that tax. This is what
I call constructive craftsmanship and
Champ Clark and the leaders in the
Democratic House of Representatives
are responsible for this piece of leg
islation that will make new issue
in the coming campaign.
The Democrats were very secretive
concerning the sugar schedule until
the night of the caucus where the
whole thing was sprung as a sur
prise and unanimously adopted by
the Democrats in caucus as Demo
cratic measure with the exception OF
the Democrats from Louisiana and
Colorado, the two big producing su-
gar States, one cane sugar and the
other beet sugar.
1t is claimed by some that if this
bill becomes a law it will ruin the
sugar industries of those two states
and put nearly half a million peo-
pie out of business. In the first place
it will do no such thing. 1t will cut
down their profits, perhaps. cent
and a half a pound on sugar. which
will go into the pockets of the con-
sumers of this country and which the,
consumers of this country ought to
be pleased at. Even If it did put
that many people out Of business
what is 100000 people compared to
the interest of 9O,OO0,000 people who
use sugar every day on their tables?
AS l have said previously. this will
save the people of this country not
less than $1OO,OO0,OO0.0O per annum.
Now, il the duties on raw sugar place
only $50,O00,00O.0O in revenue into
the Treasury, where does the other
$4,000, 100000 come from that will be
saved to the consumers Of this coun-
try? Simply from the pockets Of the
sugar trust and that's all there Is
to it. II this move on the part Of
the Democrats is not popular with
the people, saving them all this
money every year in living expenses
and compelling the rich who have in
comes Of over $5,000.00 a year to
make up the difference in the Treas
ury, then I cannot conceive Of any
thing that would be popular with the
people Of this country.
There Is no doubt that the Demo.
cratic House of Representatives will
speedily pass this bill for free sugar
and the Excise or Income tax, which
the Supreme Court Of the United
States has already passed on and
declared constitutional and send il
over to a Republican Senate. | am
frank to say that l don't believe the
republican Senate will pass it and
IL it does not, the people of this coun
try will know where to place the
blame for their failure to save $l00'
OOO,OO0.OO in taxes each year.