The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-02-01
The TARIFF ON
BEET SUGAR
DO Retain the Present Tariff Means
Competition versus Monopoly.

were ABOUT 4O,OOO tons OF beet sugar
grown and manufactured in the Unit.
eu States. Under this tariff protection
tAe Industry grew so r. pldly that
ithin live years the production was
100000 tons an increase of one thou.
and per cent
In 1908, a treaty was made with
Cuba giving that country a reduction
of 20 per cent in the sugar tariff
which made the rate l.34Sc per
pound. For the succeeding eight years,
the best industry in this country made
comparatively little progress, the to-
tnl production this year being esti-
mated AT about 100000 tons, or only
an increase Of so per cent
The Federal Sugar Refining Com.
pany. Arbuckle Bros, and other re-
fiDing interests, all located on the
.seaboard, who have absolute control
OF the sugar refining industry in this
country and also some of the large
cane sugar planters in Cuba are now
ysndeavoring to influence public opin.
ion and are making an effort in Con.
gress TO bring about a further reduc
'tion of this tariff in order to prevent
further development of the beet SUI
gar industry. These refining interests
import raw sugar from tropical coun.
tries and refine Il.
The refining process is very sim
pie and distributes very little wealth
among the American people as com
pared with the production of beet
sugar For the 100000 tons of beet
,Sugar now produced, there is paid
90 the American farmer, workman
:snd supply.man, about s45,O00,00O,
while the distribution for the three
million tons of raw sugar, imported
and refined in this country, amounts
10 approximately only $30,000,000. In
other words, for each pound of beet
sugar produced in this country, there
rs distributed seven and one-half
cimes more money among the Amerl-
can people than for each pound OF
sugar imported and only refined in
This country.
This means that II the total con
sumption of sugar in this country ~
100000 tons 49, were al grown ana
manufactured in the United States,
the actual distribution among the
farmers and workmen would amount
10 s27O, 900 100000 while if 1t were all
imported and only refined, ii would
amount to only $36,000,00O. There are
now seventy beet sugar factories in
the United States. 1t would take over
400 factories to produce the total
sugar consumed. Would IL not be
much better to have this vast sum -
1910, 900 100000 distributed by so
many separate interests, widely scat
tered over the United States, than to
nave the entire sugar industry con-
xroIled by half dozen gentlemen IN
New York, who control the refining
industry?
In addition to this. the production
Oh All our sugar iioih Suboi 'pSS'S'
would add immensely to the prodGc'
Gin OF other crops, from the well
gao@n fact that a root crop rotated
vita cereals improves the soil and
,'stery materially adds to the yield OF
other crops.
The refining interests realize that
lie hpi
and they, therefore, wish to throttle
fhs industry. Circulars have been
sent ont by some of the refining IN
Esrests containing the misleading
statements that the duty was &c pei
pound, and equivalent TO so pei
cent ad yaloTem. About 90 per cen
of our foreign sugar comes from
Cuba and pays l.34Sc per pound
which Is the effective duty as far al
vhe price of sugar to the consumer Ii
concerned. Taking the average price
IN the United States paid by the con
sumner for sugar at sc per pound, /
Is only a simple matter of arlthmeti
80 show that this duty is equivalen
20 less than 33 per cent ad valorem
Sugar is distinctly an agriculture
product, and the farmer who grow
he beets is the largest beneficiary u
.Che duty. The American farmer pay
three or four times more for labo
thar the farmer in the tropical cour
Iries where cane sugar is produced
and, therefore needs protection.
Beet sugar is just as good as can
sugar. II is physically and chemical
rahe same substance, and is general
"A much cleaner product because it
manufactured in cool climate, FIRE
arom insects and flies as compare
with tropical sugar which not onl
contends with the above objection