The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-06-28
.ARBUCELEs URGE BILL
TO MAKE SUGAR FREE
Refiners Themselves, They Have
Long Fought the Sugar
Trust.

Brothers have written letter to Sena-
tor O'Gorman asking him to help pass
a senate bill placing sugar on the free
list and saying that the present tariff
costs the people of the United States
between $lOO,OOO,OOO and Sl5O,OoOOOO
year, while it enriches the Havemey-
ers, the Mormon Church, the American
Sugar Refining Company and specu'
lators in the common stock of the Amer
lean Beet Sugar Company.
A free sugar bill has been passed by
the house of representatives, but Ar
buckle Brothers are afraid that the re-
port of Senator Lodge from the senate
committee on finance "foreshadows
the complete denial of the promises of
lower tariff taxes which the Republican
party made to the country in its last
platform and the promises of the Presi.
dent in his inaugural MESSAGE
Arbuckle Brothers operate cane
Isugar refinery in Brooklyn with capa-
city of seven thousand barrels of re-
fined sugar a day. They have been
fighting the socalled sugar trust for a
long time and have been contending
that America needs no sugar tariff to
meet the competition of the world.
They say in the letter to Senator
IO'Gorman that the lower prices which
free raw sugar would entail would in
crease consumption and more than
loffset any importation of refined sugar.
They say that the cost of canned
goods would be reduced and that "toms
of fruit rot every year which in fam
houses would be preserved If the bIiue
of sugar were lowered nv free raw
sugar. They charge tha5 the price
of beet sugar in the Wos5. controlled
by the American Sugar Refining Com.
lpany, is kept pltificial'Y high on par
with Imported sugar protected by the
tariff, and they assert that the argu.
rhent that a high tariff encourages do
nestle industry is fallacious.
"Senator Lodge" says the letter,
tdenies that free raw sugar. would
lessen the cost of refined sugar to the
consumer. Why then do the beet sugar
men besiege the halls of congress
Why have they subscribed great sums
of money to educate the American peo-
pleY'-moneys which are being largely
spent in Washington Why do they
rage that their industry will be ruined
The beet sugar men know that the
price of sugar will be decreased more
than the duty if the free sugar bill of
the house of representatives becomes a
law.'
: Senator O'Gorman is reminded that
in the three years and five months OF
, free sugar-April l, 1891, to August /
lS94-the price of refined sugar de
, creased by the whole amount of the
duty RENTED and in addition by 9
| Ipart of the refner s profit, although
, the refiner s margin of profit was in
B creased. Arbuekle Brothers also cal
e attention to the fact that the Natiopa
: Gamers Association, the Nationa
' Food Manufacturers and the Calforni;
q Canneries lall want the duty removed
0 an officer of the mast named company
r having said that the sugar tariff is {
serious handicap to the fruit industr,
q of California and that the people Car
e bearing this great burden for the bene
:. fit of few multi-millionaires that con
f troll the sugar trust. +"
If the import tax on Cuban suga
were removed and he-excise tax o
= Europe copied and made one-half cen
. a pound on all sugar consumed, All
= buckle Brothers say, the revenue wOul
' be $4,000 900 n year and $75,000,00
a year would be saved to the peopl
: of the United States. The revenu
would, moreover, be always increasin
with consumption rather than diminish
ing as it does now with the growth o
the domestic industry
Arbuckle Brothers can see nothing i
Senator Lodges argument that FIRE
sugar would end the "advantage
which we now have for our exports i
the Cuban Market They believe o
the contrary that our trade with Cub
would increase. AS for the Hawaiia
planter, very little sympathy will b
wasted on him, the letter to Senate
lO'Gorman says, 'by those who kno'
the combination of refiners, planter
and beet sugar men who control price
on the Pacific Coast.'' AS to the Phi
ippines, now limited to free export @
100000 tons, the letter says: "If thi
limit were lifted by the free sugar hi
capital would flow into the islands fC
the development of sugar plantation
to the greater prosperity of our pose
sions there and the great increase @
our trade with the islands,"
The planters of Louisiana, Arbuckl
Brothers hold, "were nursed on bouI
ties and live on tariff taxes" The LEI
ter says they produce a crop the al
nual value of which is 100000, an
for this demand that the people of tn
United States shall be- taxed froI
$1O0, 100000 to $15O,000,000 year. TIL
Louisiana planter is engaged in an III
equal contest with nature, the resul
of which is certain. He will be drive
out by the beet sugar men whom h
supports today. An indignant peopl
will not forever pay taxes to keep thi
costly exotic in full flower. 1t woul
be cheaper to buy the sugar lands an
plants and sell them again at thei
value for other crops or annually to bu
the whole crop. If the planters o
Louisiana must be nursed until deaf
system of bounties is surely cheaI
est.i
Arbuekle Brothers say that Senate
Lodge was also mistaken in sayin
that the tariff benefits the beet suga
farmer The letter to Senator O'Gol
man says that the farmers of Germany