Arizona republican., 1912-04-14
SUGAR GROWERS GIVE STRONG FACTS AGAINST
 PLACING THIS PRODUCT OH THE FREE LIST

In anticipation of the proposition by the democrats in congress to place sugar on the free list, the following statement of facts has been prepared by the American Cane Sugar Grow CTS association.
 The sugar industry in Louisiana represents an investment of over s1O0,000, 900. from which the state obtains it's share of taxes that help to maintain the schools and levees.
 It furnishes labor to 3O.00d men during the harvesting and grinding season, thereby supporting 30.0OO to 60,000 families. or an average of l50.- 000 to S00.000 persons.
 It furnishes employment to field laborers, carpenters, engineers. cleo tricians. chemists, weighers, brokers, etc. etc.
 All the crops of Louisiana for the year 1911. sold for Ss5,00O.00 and the sugar crop alone. including sugar molasses and syrup sold for $34.O00. O00. or more than one-third the en- tire agricultural production of the state.
 This s34.O0O.0 900. was handled through the various banks of the state. and three-fourths Of it by the banks of the city of New Orleans
 This amount was, in large measure distributed through twenty-five states of the union in which are located other industries and interests with
 which the sugar industry is inti- mately connected.
 The American Sugar Trust is greatly interested in the adoption of a free sugar bill. and would be the chief beneficiary. If the sugar in dustry is destroyed in this country. as it will he by the passage of the free sugar bill the sugar trust would refine all the raw sugar that comes from foreign countries. and would ab- solutely control the price of sugar in the United States. and reap enor- nous profits, while the people would pay probably higher prices than now prevail.
 The total production of sugar in the United States and colonies is 1.500. 900 tons. or 10 per cent. of the total
 production of the world. The total consumption of sugar in the United States for 1910 was 3.500000 tons, so that we consume more than we pro- duce The industry should there fore he encouraged, not destroyed. Free sugar would wipe out entirely the home production and leave us at the mercy of the foreign producer and the prices would increase. The passage of the free sugar bill means the complete destruction of the sugar industry in the United States
 Louisiana cane sugar. unrefined, actually costs 3.75 cents per pound to produce. In Java. it is produced for 150 cents per pound: in the Philippines for 1.75 cents per pound; in Cuba for cents per pound. Beet sugar manufactured in the United States costs 3.54 cents per
 pound to produce. In Germany beet sugar can be manufactured for PAP ! cents per pound.
 Ii the sugar is placed on the free list. foreign raw sugars will be de livered in New Orleans and New York for l cent to 11a cents a pound less
 than it costs to produce them in this country.
 The domestic sugar will be entirely
 driven out of the market. and when the cane and beet sugar industries are destroyed, then the American Sugar Trust will raise the price on ! refined sugar, and foreign govern
 ments will impose an export tax on
 sugar. and the American people will
 ha hiUhar- nrippG and two inn
 portant home industries will he des- troyed
 But the sugar trust will control
 the sugar business of the United
 States and will be the sole beneficiary
 of the free sugar bill.
 With the sugar industry wiped out in this country foreign countries would immediately impose an export