The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-04-06

the husbands and fathers could not
find work, men slept by night on the
floors in the corridors of city halls or
in haystacks or barns, and by day
they walked the city streets or the
county highways pleading for the
privilege to work at any wage or n"
wage except for something 10 eat.
When the Republican party came
back into power in 1897 the Demo
cratic tariff for revenue was wiped
off the statute books, and when the
beneficient policy of protection was
put in operation the condition of idle
ness and constant want and misery
was quickly changed to industry and
! prosperity and happiness, which has
since continued.
Nov the Democrats are again ask
ing the American people to try their
old schemes. The crusade for free
trade, and that is the ultimate mean.
| ing of the present agitation. must b.
met by a contrary crusade for pro-
| lection of our industries, for our
wages for our homes. Otherwise the
} history of 1892 may repeat itself in
1912, and it will begin with the open
ing of our gates to the foreign man.
facturer and will end with the opeu.
ing of soup houses.
rs it any wonder that when the
tariff measures of the present Con.
gress are submitted to the American
people and they are given an oppor-
tunity to digest them and to reason
out the results of such free-trade
measures that they will be called UP
on to rebuke this kind of impractical
legislation at the fall election?
Now, with reference to the beet
sugar industry. have in my district
four sugar mills, with a capacity of
approximately two and on.half mil.
lions and with capacity Of approx
mately 100000 tons yearly, paying to
the farmers Of the district upward OF
81 100000 annually. in addition to
the freight to the railways and the la
Dor Of manufacturing barrels and SUI
gar. And as a result Of the encour-
agement of this sugar industry in
4-Speaker Clark
Michigan, and especially In my dis
trict, il has tended to increase the
value of the land by the better meth
DDS adopted by the farmers in the
i past five years in their cultivation of
beets to such an extent that they
have nearly doubled their tonnage
per acre, and by rotation of the crop
have fortified their fields and farms
in such a manner as to increase their
production Of other crops, such as
oats, rye, and wheat, to the extent of
so per cent more than they have pro
duced before.
Some nine years ago when Score
tary Wilson went through my dis.
trict looking at the various sugar
mills and discussing the methods OF
cultivation with the farmers, he gave
them such directions as enabled the
farmers to make the great advance
that they have made in the growth OF
bets. At that time lands were sci
ling in the vicinity of $50 per acre
and during the past year farmers
have been coming from Ohio and
from Iowa and other Western States
and buying some OF this same land
paying 800 to 1925 an acre; but our
Democratic friends think that this in
dustry should be transferred to fore
ign countries, so that the American
sugar refinery and its interests, con
trolling perhaps 80 per cent of the
refining industry in this country may
be enabled to dictate the prices ia
the American people for their sugar
doing away with competition entirely
and forcing the sending of American
money to foreign countries instead oil
keeping 1t at home and encouraging
the industry here. and thereby Great
ing competition at home.
We never had greater object les
son on this question than we had dur
ing the last fall, when the report was
lgiven out early in the season that the
worlds crop of sugar was short and
the sugar refineries in the country
advanced their prices something ovel
two cents pound and were able e
make the American people pay this
advance until sugar-beet crop came
upon the market in October, VIII
they were obliged to reduce their pri
ces 2 cents per pound; and yet oui
Democratic friends would destroy
this competition and insist on oui
people going to foreign lands with