New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-02
TAFT WARNS COLORADO
Democratic Success Means
Free Sugar, He Says.
THIRD PARTY HAS FAILED
Not a National Force, Asserts
President, Who Urges Re-
tention of Protection.
fFrom The Tribune Bureau. ]


Washington. Nov. 1.-The choice be-
tween the free sugar programme Of the
Democratic party and the protective and
revenue tariff Of the Republican party Is
put up to the voters Of Colorado, and, In
cidentally. to those Of all the beet sugar
states, by President Taft in a letter 10
Crawford Hin, of Denver made public
at the White House to-day.
The letter follows in part:
ENCOURAGING reports have come TO me
in regard TO the political situation IN
Colorado. The men and women or ColO
RADIO need the Republican party so mucn
that IL would seem almost unnecessary
to urge them to retain those economic
policies which have made their state
great and prosperous.
! am sure that every man whose Juus-
ment is not controlled by his preludIces
now realizes that this Is campaign pc
tween the Republican and DemocralC
parties It is apparent that the thlfd
party movement has not gained heauWdy
as a national force, and that again inc
alternative Is presented 10 the American
people either TO support the protective
policy Of the party in power or 10 turn
over the government to those VINO are
committed TO repeat the experiment
which resulted in a commercial eAplo-
sion when last ii was tried.
their vantage of altitude to see that DEM
ocratic victory means the striking down
OF a great industry which has been DuIle
up in their state. II does not require q
profound knowledge OF the principles Oh
political economy, but only common
sense to understand that the placing Oh
sugar on the free list would spell rum
for those Of our fellow citizens VINO are
engaged in the cultivation or the susal
beet The Democratic party Is commit :
ted TO free sugar. and II II is successIu!
at the polls we may expect as one or lts
first legislative acts the passage OF
bill to admit sugar duty free at our ports
of entry.
Democrats Struck at Duty.
Democratic orators may talk until their
throats are hOarse of their interest In
the American farmer, but the faCt re-
mains that i'm March of this year the
governing tariff body Of the DemOcratlc
party, the Democratic members OF tne
Ways and Means Committee. by unanI-
nous vote reported the bill TO place sugar
on the free list, and this Dill was pdsseu
by Democratic House.
Free sugar cannot be defended from
any angle II is I'm conflict with the the-
Ory OF a tariff for revenue only, ana LlS
effect would be To make almost certain
the monopolistiC control Of great IN
dustry. il would diminish the revenue
OF the government 353OOOOOO annualiy,
and by reducing tho world prOuuctloh Dy
nearly one million tons year raise tue
price OF sugar to the consumer Perna-
| nently lower prices for sugar In the
United States and freedom from Euro
pean speculative markets can only be Sc
cured BY producing our sugar under the
American flag. 1T
The American production Of sugar. botn
! cane and beet. has been made possiDle
! by the protective tariff policy OF the Ike
publican party Cane sugar production
! dates back TO long before the war. but
! the beet sugar industry IL OF recent
! growth In 1897, when the Dingley tarllr
! law WAS enacted, there were only SIX Deet
sugar factories in the United states
Now there are seyenty-one.
The production of beet sugar has had
tendency to keep down the price or sugar
TO the consumer. Free sugar would force
the suspension OF our beet sugar rae,
tories, for they would not only be forced
10 compete with cheap foreign factories
but they would be under the further nam
dicap imposed by bounty or az cents
a hundred pounds on sugar shipped 10
the United States from Russia. the sec
ond largest beet sugar country ~ me
world. / cannot believe that the intelli'
gent voters OF your state are Wiling 10
nut the growers Of Colorado into compe-
tition with the peasants OF Russia on
these terms.