Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-03-07
WOULD KILL BEET INDUSTRY
Measure Designed to Catch Votes Of
Unwary Consumer.
TURNS OVER FIELD TO REFINERs
Home Growers Only Effective
Check on High Prices.
FOLLOWS ANOTHER CONCESSION
Democratic Chemical Schedule Adds
TO Free List. Bone Black, Used
Entirely by Rcfiner. of
Imported Raw Material.

| WASHINGTON, March s.-PropOsing to
rename the democratic free sugar bill ''an
act to surrender revenue. destroy COM
petition and create monopoly" the re-
ipublicans of the ways and means com
mittee Of the house today submitted a
minority report on the Underwood bill
which will be the next Of the tariff bills
to be considered by the house. The re-
port was submitted by Representative
Fordney OF Michigan. II charges that
there Is a union between the Sugar trust
and the democratic party. and that the
free sugar measure Is designed TO catch
the Votes Of the consumer. and will In
time deliver the consumer to the mercy
lof the Sugar trust.
The report reviews In the main the dis
senting views Of the republican members
of the Hardwick Sugar trust investigat-
ing committee. II gives credit 20 the
beet sugar industry for holding down
the price OF sugar during the advance OF
last year. and predicts that such a safe
guard would be destroyed IL the beet
sugar men were driven out Of business,
The report asserts that the Underwood
history OF our republic to surrender an
important and growing Industry TO for
ieign importers" and that Il is against
the domestic sugar producers and solely
in the interest OF the refiners OF I'M
ported sugar. commercially known as the
Sugar trust"
Beet Industry Threatened.
The report asserts that the sugar beet
industry would be killed II the beet re-
flneries were forced TO suspend by tariff
legislation. There are 112ooo farmers en-
gagged in growing sugar beets, the report
declares, and II comments that 'the dem
ocratic party says to these farmers; We
pl oppose to make you pay for this reduc-
ton In the tariff on sugar
Predicting dire days for the sugar con-
sumer, the report says:
Not in the palmiest days Of the trust
when NJ Havemyer ruled its fortunes
with rod Of iron and an ambition
bounded only by the confines OF this
country. did the American Sugar Refin-
ing company ever monopoiize such por-
tlon OF the sugar consumed In the United
states as this bill would deliver into its
keeping"
The assertion that the Underwood bill
win help the sugar refiners aud destroy
the beet industry is followed by the In
slnuation that there has been collusion
between the democratic majority and the
Sugar trust. In charging that the bene-
fielaries OF the tariff removal viii be
the sugar refiners, the report makes this
Specifications: .... ..
Another Favor 90 Trust.
Another evidence of the closencss Of
the union between the democratic party
and the Sugar trust is found In the chem
ical schedule recently passed by the
unanimous vote OF the democratic rep
resentatives and opposed by the unani-
nous vote Of the republican representa-
tlves. ....
THE Payne-Aldrich bill places an ad
valorem duty Of g per cent on bone
black. In the democratic chemical sched
ule the duty on all items In this section
except bone black is reduced from IS per
cent to Is per cent Bone black Is taken
out Of the section and placed on the free
list. Who uses bone black? Practically
no one except the sugar refineries.. II
is one OF the principal items Of expense
In refining sugar.
Not a pound is used in the domestic
sugar Industry.
The man who uses lamp black In
painting his barn must pay a Is per cent
duty on the same, but the Sugar trust
that uses millions Of pounds Of bone
black shall have the duty removed en-
tireIy so that II can import the most ex-
pensNe material used I'm its business
without paying any revenue into the
national treasury.
Now. less than month after the pas
sage Of the chemical schedule, the same
democratic party introduces bill piac-
ing sugar on the free list. relieving these
same refiners OF the burden OF s52cosa
on their raw sugar. Thus the union has
been consummated"