The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-11-02
PRESIDENT TAFT
ISSUES STATEMENT
CONTINUED from Page II

Ihe first congress passed on July
=. 1883. a general tariff act. included
IN which was q duty on sugar. From
that time to the present sugar has
always paid a duty except during the
operations Of the. Mckinley law which
placed raw sugor on the free list and
levied ono half cent per pound on
refined sugar. but guafded the inter-
ests of the domestic Product by Civ
ing a W. cent a pound bounty. on all
sugar produced in the United States.
II the United States should abolish
the duty on sugar 1t would stand alone
among civilized nations as the only
sugar producing country with sugar
on the free list. The production Of
beet & has had a tendency to
Keep down the price of sugar to the
consumer. Free sugar would force
suspension Of u beet sugar fac
tories. for they would not only be
forced to compete with cheap foreign
factories. but they would be under
the further handicap imposed by a
bounty OF seVentE-two cents per hun
dred pounds on sugar shipped to the
United States from Russia. the second
largest beet sugar country in the
world. I cannot believe that the in.
telligent voters of your state are will.
ing to put the growers OF Colorado
into competition with the peasants of
Russia on these terms.
Development of West.
Permit me to say a word also with
regard to another subject in which
Colorado and other states are inter-
ested. Your great western country
needs development. 1t must have men
and capital and it is you who must
be able to offer inducements to attract
both. The republican party does not
believe in a conservation policy which
would tie up u natural resources
and deny their use to the legitimate
homesseader. miner and capital.
We are holding the part OF the
domain h a has coal. phosphate and
oil until congress shall make provision
Tor Its disposition by lease on protita-
Bile terms. to private capital with the
retention of sufficient title in the gov.
eminent to control and prevent mon
opoly to ownership and consequent
exorbitant charge to the public for
these commodities. The problem which
the republican party Is solving is how
to save and how to utilize. how to
conserve and still develop: for no
sane person can contend that 1t is
blessings are only for unborn gener.
atoms.
There is just foundation for the
complaint IN the west that the laws
have not been administered with a
liberal view to the accomplishment
Of their purpose, but rather in a spirit
which has put as many distractions
as possible in the way OF earning title
from the government. This condition
which reached a point where there
seemed to be real hostility to the ac-
QUESTION OF public property by a man
who had earned title to 1t under the
land and mining laws OF the United
States by the performance of those
conditions precedent that in the
statute were declared to be useful in
the development Of the country.
las a result Of attacks which en-
tended to those who were legitimately
seeking a share in the public domain
by the exercise of the steps required
by law. there was developed a timidity
and delay on the part OF bureaus.
divisions and employees Of the interior
department. In granting patents that
had been earned. Thi. Is not the
fault OF any individual. In the interior
1t 10 the result Of q very vicious
period Of undertaking in which those
who were likely to be the subject Of
s~landerous attack preferred the easier
course of making no decision. and UNI
Justly defayir~ the granting Of rights
to persons entitled to them. Secre-
tary Fisher has struggled to overcome
this and to push the decision Of cases
AZ rapidly as possible. but there still
remains much TO be accomplished in
this direction. We are laboring as
hard AZ We car to overcome the evil
and injustice which these delays have
entailed and l believe that with the
proper congressional appropriation
and the continued effort on the part
Of the secretary Of the interior and
his subordinates the tendency will dis
appear"