The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1912-03-07
REPUBLICANS SHOW HOW DEMO.
GRATIS HAVE UNITED WITH
THE SUGAR TRUST.
HARD ON THE CONSUMER
Minority Report Tells How Underwood
and His Followers Have Plotted TO
Make Things Easy for the Have.
meyer Trust-Thousands Of Farmers
Affected II the Measure Passes.

Washington. March G.--Proposing to
rename the democratic free sugar bin
AN act to surrender revenue, destroy
competition and Great MONOPOLY" the
republicans of the ways and means
committee of the house today SUBJ
mitted a minority report on the Under
wood bill which will he the next OF
the tariff bills to be considered by the
house.
The report was submitted by Rep
resentative Fordney Of Michigan. It
charges that there is union between
the sugar trust and the democratic
party and that the free sugar meas
ure is designed to catch the votes of
the consumer and will In time deliver
the consumer to the mercy of the sugar
trust.
The report gives credit to the beet
sugar industry for holding down the
price of sugar in the advance of last
year and predicts that such n safe
guard would be dstroyed IL the beet
sugar men We're driven out OF business
Against Domestic Producers.
The report asserts that the Under
wood free sugar bill is "the boldest
attempt in the history OF our republic
to surrender an important and grow
ing industry to foreign importers and
that IL is against the domestic sugar
producers and solely I'm the interests
of the refiners of imported raw sugar,
commercial known as the sugar
trust"
The report says that the sugar beet
growing industry would be killed II
the beet refineries were forced to sus-
pend by tariff legislation. There are
10000 farmers engaged in growing
sugar beets. the report adds. and II
comments that the democratic party
says to these farmers: We propose to
make you pay for this reduction In the
tariff on sugar"
Predicting dire disaster for the con-
snmer, the report says:
Not in the pamiest days of the
trust, when Mr.. Havemeyer ruled it,
fortunes with rod of iron and an am
bition bounded only by the confines
of the country. did the American Sugar
Refining company ever monopoliz'
such portion of the sugar consumed
, I'm the United States as this bill viii
deliver into its Keeping
ColIusIon.
T, The assertion that the Underwood
bill would help the sugar refiner an,
, destroy the beet industry liz followe'
|, by the insinuation that there has beel
collusion between the democratic ma
, jority and the sugar trust. In charg
I. ing that the benefciaries of the tariff
removal would be the sugar refiners
? the report makes this specification:
Another evidence of the closenes
n of the union between the democrati
q party and the sugar trust is found |
4 the chemical schedule recently passe
by the unanimous vote OF the demo
|. cratic representatives and opposed b
a the unanimous vote Of the r'pnhica
q representatives.
THE Payne Aldrich bill places an a
! valorem duty Of 25 per cent on Dor
Il black. In the democratic chemic'
n schedule the duty on all items in tn
section, except bone black, Is reduce
y from 25 per cent to Is per cent Boz
black IL taken out of the section al
placed on the free list Who us
n bone black? Practically no one e.
Irnnt;ouad IN Do ana I,ivoA