The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-04-13
DEMOCRATIC representative
DENOUNCES SUGAR SCHEDULE

long quotation from the testimony OF
this same Mr.. Claus A. Spreckles;
and although they attempt to show
that the sugar.refining business con-
stitutes a great trust protection from
the capacity of the beet-sugar produ-
GERS, and therefore sugar must be
placed on the free list. Take IL all
in all, this report is the most remark.
able document ever perused, and II
is sad for a Democrat to see his par
ty thus playing into the hands OF a
gigantic trust and destroying a bust.
ness in which hundred of thousands |
of American farmers and manufac- |
turers are engaged in order to give |
] heavier profits to set OF refiners |
who are already overburdened VITA
wealth
can not belive such thing was
intended by my fellow Democrats on
the Ways and Means Committee, but
beyond question that will be the re.
suit if this bill becomes a law. There
will probably be heavy reduction in
the retail price of sugar for three or
four years, until ali our domestic
growers of beets and cane have been
driven into other pursuits and then
the refners will charge what they
please, for we will be entirely at their
mercy Nearly four-fifths of the SUI
gar we use is made from cane, ana
most of it is not really merchant.
able article until it has passed
through the processes of these big
refiners. We are beginning to refine
in our Louisiana mills. and all beet
sugar is refined at the local factor
les. Put these two agencies out OF
business and the Sugar Trust will
have no competition. Small wonder
that the refiners are so anxious for
: sugar be on the free list!
In conclusion / desire to say that
: the proposed measure is un-Demo-
cratic and revolutionary. Our great
Democratic Party, which has been in
existence since the beginning of this
l Government, has never stood for any
: such wholesale destruction Of pri.
vate interests and complete ruin to
farming communities and such gross
injustice to hundreds of thousands OF
our best citizens in the interest Of q
few dozen rich men as the enact
ment of this measure at the behest
of the sugar refiners would mean
XII We have never stood for free trade
I nor have any of our party platform,
| SO declared, but always for tariff
I for revenue, and If incidental protec
ton accompanied such a tariff ther,
was no objection to it.
I The Denver platform was very spe
cific for gradual reduction of suol
tariff schedules as is necessary to re
reduce them to a revenue basis; an,
there has been so much reduction i,
the sugar tariff during recent year
by the free admission of 100000 ton
of Philippine sugar, the 20 per cen
\ reduction in favor of Cuba, and tn
lowering of duties in the Payne, Alt
I rich bill that the present tariff, s
far as sugar is concerned, is on a
ideal revenue basis, which can nc
be improved upon; hence there is n
reason for any further change in !
If the extreme view be taken, howe
er, that sugar is dollhouse plant, d
some are pleased to call it, then
has been fostered for ia years
every party that has controlled tn
Government, and to remove this fat
erly care at one fell swoop would
- heartless in the extreme, for it mear
W quick and certain death. l can not b
lieve that the majority of my part
: stands for any such act of VANDALISM
1t is not required by any platfor
Z pledge, but, on the contrary, violate
the implied promise of our leade
& at Denver not to make radical cha
s ges, but only gradual reductions
: tariff schedules. II We hope to Gle
President next fall, we must co
Z vince the American people that v
: are sane, constructive statesmen al
: not rash destroyers of condition
that have existed since the Republ
: was born. We should make has
Z slowly in measures of such far-reac
ing magnitude,