The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-04-13
DEMOCRATIC representative
DENOUNCES SUGAR SCHEDULE
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city of New Orleans Is more depend
ent upon the sugar industry than any
other branch of business. A very
large percentage of the assessed pro-
perry wealth of the State Is derived
from sugar, directly and indirectly,
enormously. While North Louisiana
does not produce sugar, II is yitaly
interested in 4, for we receive very
large sums for levees and schools
from taxes collected in the rich sugar
sections and New Orleans. a tide
of immigration Is pouring into louis
lara, and property in every locality
is rapidly increasing in value. De-
stroy sugar and IL will require many
years to establish new in 'ustries to
take its place ~ u, meantime i'm
migration VIII look elsewhere. Dc.
yelopment viii g.: !rc temporarily we
can not say how .cAg Utne' States
will forge AGeaG Of ~, an! every
l.ouisianiaC IL wyitd seriously inJur.
ed.
Moreover i great many people be-
sides those IN Lo"us!Gla and the beet
sugar Sta - di.ecty intc"c- ed
In domes - sugar. II Is - mated
lat In l. .p'-iaos a "s- II costs a mil
lion dollars every year to renew the
supply Of mules end the sugar plant.
ers Constitute the best market for
high-priced mules OF Kentucky, Ten
nessee, Illinois, Missouri. Texas, ana
Kansas. Factory machinery and sup
rres, implements. ra,ltoad equip.
n.nt, oil and coal, feeds,uiis, peas,
ana commercial fertilizers, insurance
OH factories, freigh.s on factory pro-
duets, and 80 forth, run annually in.
to several millions IN Louisiana, and
all these items except oil and n por.
ton Of the insurance and furnished
at profitable prices by the manu-
faetGrers, farmers, railr Dads, and bus
mess men of 20 or more States. The
twenty-five to thirty millions year
for which the Louisiana sugar crops
sells for is widely scattered and its
benefits divided among large num-
Der of people throughout the Union,
who will feel the loss appreciably IL
this industry be destroyed. The sug-
ar planter is obliged to buy hea NY
away from home, and everything he
consumes 10 favored by high tariff.
II his product is to be free, then his
purchases should be free also.
The platform of my party enacted
at the Denver convention did not de.
clare for free trade, but for a gradual
reduction of the tariff wherever ne
cessary to reduce 1t to a revenue bas-
is, and in the preparation of the
great wool and steel schedules this
course was adopted.
The average reduction on articles
of steel and iron in the bill recently
passed by the House and now pend.
ing in the Senate, below the rates In
the Payne-Aldrich bill, was 80 per
cent, and the reduction below exist
ing law on manufactures of wool in
the BIN which passed this House sew.
eral months ago, during the present
Congress, was about SO per cent. Why
make this great distinction against
the products of the farm, leaving
still heavy rate Of duty on articles
made of iron, steel and wool, but pla,-
ing sugar on the free list, and there
by destroying 1t?
In my opinion the laws Of supply
and demand have far greater influen-
ce in fixing the price of food products
than the tariff, and 1t is fact, so
clearly established none can deny 1t,
that whenever there is n scarcity or
any great article of food, like meat,
flour or sugar, there is a correspond
ing rise in prices. We had this for
chilly demonstrated last year in the
case of sugar, when, as a result Of
in Cuba and Europe, the price of SUI
gar on our markets last summer and
tall, before the domestic beet and
cane crops of last years became
available, was very high, reaching
the extreme point of IL cents per
pound after our beet and cane sugar
began to move freely this price drop
ped nearly two cents a pound. Surely
the tariff had nothing to do with that
The rise was caused by scarcity OF
sugar, and the drop by the good crops
of last year, which gave ample sup
ply.
According to Mr.. Willett and DR.
Wiley, two very able and disinterest