The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1912-02-23

not a sugar producing country. IL IL
the lowest of any country in the
world"
CoMMENDS CONGRESSMAN FoRpNEY.
General Manager William H.. Wal.
lace of the Michigan Sugar company,
in a SHIRT statement YESTERDAY, express
ed his apprecia ion of the splendid work
performed by Coz gresham Joseph W.
Fprdpey in behalf Of he beet sugar III
dustry Gong FRESHMAN Forduey made
good fight and the beet sugar industry
is under great obligations to him in
Guiding the farmer, the manufacturer,
the business man and all who are IN.
terested or affected by it.
IT the recommendation adopted by
the committee 20 through congress
they will not affect the beet sugar IT,.
dustry anywhere They practically n.y.
hold the beet sugar companies and the
report will mean no change as far as
beet sugar is concerned. We are nat.
urally pleased at the outcome.
AS far as prices of sugar are con-
cerned they may be rather high at
present. but you may be sure that beet
sugar will not reach the high point
touched by Eastern sugar last fall"
Fordnev Saves Sugar Industry
Continued from page
by Chairman Hardwick and his Demo.
cratic associates was a severe arrai n.
ment Of the domestic beet sugar indus.
try AZ we'll as a stiff argument for the
reduction of duty on raw cane sugar
The thing that it is declared would ruin
the beet sugar industry.
Mr.. Fordney broke up the Democratic
program by three moves
First. by his everlasting iIsistence
the protection be continued to the do.
nestle beet sugar business as the sole
obstacle to still further advance of
cane sugar prices; second, by dividing
the Democrats over the matter of the
advisiability of course threatening
ruin to the domestic cane as we'll as to
the domestic beet sugar business. and
third, by giving out today the tentative
draft Of what he promised to present
as minority report if the Democrats
persisted in extending their majority
report to tariff arguments and to
charges inimical to the beet growers
and beet sugar makers.
DEMOCRATS SURRENDER.
A complete surrender folio wed. The
to which Mr.. Fordney took
exception as relating to the Michigan
beet industry is number 10 of the list
of alleged sugar trust violations of the
law 1t ran as follows:
mo. 10. The purchase Of large blocks
of stock of the various beet sugar COM
panies of Michigan and the Eastern
group from 1902 to 1906. by the Ameri-
can Sugar Refining company and the
of six of these companies,
that had hitherto been active competi-
tors of each other, into the Michigan |
Sugar company in August, 1906"
At the instance of Mr.. Fordney, the |
of this paragraph has been
changed to read as follows:
mo. 10. The purchase of large blocks |
If stock from 1902 to 1905 by the Amer
can Sugar Refining company in the
Michigan Sugar company"
Mr.. Fordney points out that this |
charge has already been laid against |
he American Sugar Refining company
n the federal courts and that If the
contention that such &C
ion was in violation of the Sherman
antitrust law be sustained the Ameri-
IAN company will simply dispose of it's
holdings in the Michigan Beet
Sugar company. When he forced IL g
dardwick committee to stop with that
patent fact he was contented us to
treatment. But he carried
lis demand still further and has Sc
'qred the same kind of treatment for
III other beet sugar sections of the
country.
This victory achieved, Mr.. Fordney
caves for home Friday night to attend
he Lincoln banquet of the Republican
lub at st. Louis. Mich.
Food Worse Than Coun-