The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1912-03-21
BEET SUGAR indus.
TRY THREATENED
ESPECIAL to the Silver State)

MIL WA u NEE, WIS, March 2l.-
The prospects of the establishment of
new beet sugar factories in Nevada is
attracting wide attention owing to the
danger of the passage Of the Demo
cratic bill providing for the removal
of the tariff on sugar, but nowhere is
the danger appreciated greater than
in Wisconsin, for it was at Mil
waukee conference few days ago that
&C.. G. Hamlin, of Colorado Springs,
chairman of the executive committee
of the United States beet sugar indus
try, made his declaration that the
Democratic bill would throttle the
beet sugar industry, prevent the build
ing of new factories at cost of $685.
100000 a year in the purchase of
beets from farmers. The free sugar
plan of the Democrats, he said, would
give the sugar trust monopoly of the
industry, and he limited in no mild
form that once given monopoly, and
with the beet sugar industry destroy
ed the lower prices under the tariff
would be only temporary. Last years.
experience when sugar mounted to 8
and cents a pound in some parts of
the country when the beet sugar out
put for the year was consumed, was
only an instance of what might hap
pen with the sugar trust in control of
the industry.
Mr.. Hamlin's statement which was
made for the independents of the
country, 80 per cent of whom are rep
resented in the association for which
he spoke, was as follows:
eff the tariff is cut the farmers
who raise sugar beets will be the most
immediate sufferers. The retention of
the present duty will mean the invest
ment of millions in new factories.
"The people generally are wholly
ignorant of the sources of these at
tacks. The agitation is wholly in
spired by the New York refners and
importers of foreign raw sugar, who
see their business menaced by the
competition of beet sugar, the inter
ests usually known as the sugar trust.
Every refner who testified before
the Hardwick committee and practi-
eally all the refners on the eastern
seahoard did testify, expressed them
selves in favor of free sugar or, at
least, a drastic cut in the present duty,
and all testified that their reason for
desiring the removal or reduction of
sugar industry was menaeing the
monopoly which they once enjoyed.
''John Arbuekle, the coffee king, is
one of the most vociferous advocates
of free sugar. The testimony of Mr..
Jamison, one of his partners, is signif
ieant. In testifying in favor of free
sugar and giving his reasons why he
favored the same, he said that it was
on account of the beet product. Mr..
Jamison further said: IF there was
no duty i do not think the beet would
be so prosperous and we would prob
ably sell more sugar if it (the duty)
was removed, / mean tie was only
one of many who testified along the
same lines.
"Mr. Arbuckle may be philanthro-
pist so far as sugar is concerned, but
his record with regard to coffee can
scarcely he looked upon as guarantee
in this direction. Coffee has doubled
in price in a very short time, and that
it has doubled is due to the monopoly
enjoyed by a few men. Destroy the
competition which the refners have to
meet on account of the domsetic beet
production and what guarantee has the
consumer that like monopoly will
not be established in sugarF
"We are now producing about 600,-
600 tons of beet sugar per annum.
Were the industry permitted to grow
this amount would be doubled within
reasonable time and the consumer
would receive the benefit. In addition
to this. the incidental advantages to
our agriculture can not be magnified
After a careful study Of the industry
in Iowa, Mr.. Wallace, in an article re-
Gently published in Wallace's Farmer,
reached the deliberate conclusion that
the culture of sugar beets as it
spreads will revolutionize the agricul
ture of the northern part of the corn
belt and if it is true of this section
/ it is true of the wheat belt of Mime
sofa and the Dakotas and all that
great agricultural section extending
from Pennsylvania westward to the
Pacific, which, according to the reports
of our department of agriculture, is
adapted to the production of sugar
beets.
''If this industry is destroyed it
will be because our people are ignorant
of its Importance as related to our ag-
ricultural and industrial develop