The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-03-14

vestment of at least 5000, 1000, 900. Is
not the investment of this amount
worth while? Is not the utilization
of our lands adapted to beet and
sugar culture worth while? Is not
the furnishing Of employment to our
boys and girls incident to the invest
ment of this capital, the cultivation
Of this land, and the transformation
of the beet and cane to the finished
product worth while? Is 1t not the
natural order of things, is 1t not the
destiny of the United States to pro-
duce all the sugar she needs? Ger
tainly. Then why destroy the indus.
try. Why stop the march of prog
ress made by the Republican party
during the last half a century. The
Republican idea has fostered and
made possible the industry, and all
that is necessary to bring about a
condition whereby we can furnish
our entire consumption, through the
utilization of our own land aud the
labor of our own workmen, is to let
the Republican idea continue. Rep
resentative Mondell of Wyoming says
the industry is dependent upon a
protective tariff" In recent ad-
dress on the subject he said in part:
In the State which have the
honor to represent on this floor we
have at least a half million acres of
land that are suitable to the cultiva-
ton of the sugar beet.
The great State of Colorado, to
the south of us, no better land, no
better climate than we have, has II
sugar.beet factories. The State of
Montana, to the north of US, has one
large sugar-beet factory. Nebraska,
to the east, has two factories, and
the three factories that have last
referred to all receive large pro-
portion OF their sugar beets from
Wyoming.
We have long been looking for
ward to the time when the sugar-beet
industry would be extended in our
country. A number OF years ago the
Government undertook to aid the de-
velopment of the arid West through
the national reclamation law. We
have expended approximately $780,
900 900, and between s25,OO0,OO0 and
$40, 100000 are ay,tlable when need
ed for extension ~ that work. These
great irrigation projects. or a number
Of them, depend for their success
very largely on the opportunity af.
forded for the cultivation of sugar
beets and the manufacture of beet
sugar. We deliberately undertook
this great national work and dedicat
ed to 1t the income from the public
lands, with the understanding that
the progress and prosperity and sue
cess of these enterprises largely de
pended on the extension of the beet
sugar industry.
| "Of course, we realized then, as W,
realize now, that this industry is de
pendent upon protective tariff
that 1t is absolutely impossible in {
temperate climate and with tn,
American wage, under American con
ditions, to produce cane sugar II
competition with the peon-groWi
cane sugar of the Tropics.
mo man whose opinion on the sub
ject is worthy of consideration viii
claim for moment that it is possibl,
to maintain under the American flat
within our continental confines {
cane-sugar industry in free competi
ton with the cane-sugar industry Of
Java or Borneo or Cuba. That being
the case, we understand the still
more difficult conditions surrounding
the sugar-beet grower. 1t is scarcely
necessary to refer to the fact that
the beet-sugar industry is absolutely
dependent on protective tariff. Ev
en- in Germany, where the average
wage paid to the workers in the field
is just about a third, or little more
than a third, of that in our North
west, where the average wage in the
factory is less than half that paid
in American factories, the industry
would be wiped out II 1t were not
for the protective tariff which guards
1t. How much more is that tariff es
sential to our development"
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