The Delta independent., 1912-10-18

consumes beet sugar only and exports
100000 tons.
The freight rate from Europe to the
United States is IL cents per hundred
pounds.
| The cost of producing beet sugar in
the United States computed from state
ments made under oath, of "a factories
was 1854 per hundred pounds.
Only tariff equal to the difference
of cost here and there, will compent-
|. emily protect the home industry.
The 600 600 tons of beet sugar pro
duced by the United States last year,
and the placing of it on the market
| in October, which SO materially de-
pressed the price of sugar to the loss
of cane refineries, was made by 20
factories in IS states. During the op-
Grating season, these factories en-
ployed $4,000 mechanics and laborers
and disbursed s29.OO0,OOO for beets.
This, again demonstrates the necs-
sity for Colorado's position within pro-
lection lines in its senatorial repre-,
sentation. Suicidal is the exact term
that describes the state as sending to
the United States senate, now our
only security, any party opposed to
protecting the beet sugar grower from
the importation of the product of
cheap tropical labor united with the
Millionaire monopoly of the refiners
of cane sugar.
Last March, the house of represen-
tatives passed the free sugar bill The
senate failed to concur No intelli
gent man could anticipate aught but
the cessation of growing beets and
making sugar in the United States.
had the senate agreed to the house
bill.
The casual looker-on finds it con.
venient, lightly to say that the home
industry would go on just the same.
Looking at the immense factories and
the thousands of acres of growing
beets, the sacrifice of such vast inter
ests, is to him incredible. He fails
to realize that without a market for
the sugar, no sugar would be raised.
and that the inferior sugar of the
tropics. refined by our competitors
the refiners, would control the sugar
market and eliminate all home pro
duction. Only by maintaining a I'm
protection, can our continued prospect.
ty be assured.
Colorado can i'll afford to be repre-
sented in the upper house by avowed
lower house maintains its purpose to
remove all tariffs for protection.
The advocates of free sugar have
to present as reason for their posi-
to the consumer. They assume. with
the entire duty on sugar Zone and one
third cents pound) removed. that
the consumer would buy his sugar for
one and one-third cents less pound
Admitting for the consideration Of
the statement, this as truth, how much
would annually be saved to the con-
sumer? The per capita consumption
last year was 53-71 pounds. With a
reduction OF the duty according to the
claim, 1928 cents would be reserved
from the annual domestic sugar bill.
70 cents per capita saved In the years
compensation for the serious hinder
ing OF the home industry and the trans
fer of many cultivated beet acres and
factory and field operatives to other
will not be saved by free sugar be-
cause the revenue now derived by the,
government from the tax on sugar
amounts s52.OOO,O00 per year. which
not derived from a tax on sugar must
be derived from a tax on some other
commodity. to replace the revenues
which will be lost by admitting sugar
person in the United States under
free trade will be only IA cents per
year.
The benfit to the people OF Colo
RADIO that accompanies the location.
operation and allied business& activi-
ties OF factories, is reason enough for
that personal politics Is no
factor in the issue; individuals don't
count; the principle Of protection is
the sole contention, for Colorado de-
mands protection for her Industries re-
garless of the personalities of candi-
dates.
One-half of the sugar consumed in
ti.< u,orld i. haa4 Ifx.I41a