The Lamar register., 1913-05-21
States is more than twice as great
as it is in German factories, as Mr..
Heating must know if he has look
ed into the problem.

Heating must know if he has look
ed into the problem.
AR heating .lnus tnat some
the sugar companies nave made
enormous profi,s. Possibly so, Gu.
IL the proIlCs nave been 80 enormo
why then is it that we are stin Inl-
por,ing SO large a percentage o.
our sugar from foreign countries:
Is it not reasonable to believe that
u the sugar industry pays such
large pioIiLs that all u our sugar
would be grown at home.
Mr.. keating will find. il Ii.
cares 10 investigate, that sugar
factories exist, or have existed, that
nave never paid a profit. As in the
nature oil the case in a product Oh
30 purely an agricultural nature,
az il sugar, which is u world staple.
the price of which fluctuates with
the worlds crop, there Will be
years when the profits aie big and
others when the factories will be
operated at very astonishing losses
This will be readily UNDERSTOOD
by the farmers OF the Arkansas
valley. Many a feeder in the val
ley has fed sheep and cattle with
enormous losses during some years
and equally large profits during
other years. Cantaloupes are grown
during some years at u loss.
with very handsome profits dun
ing others. Where is there u farm
ar in the valley who has not. dur
ing some years. grown alfalfa at a
heavy lossf
The same situation holds true In
the sugar business. only to a great
or extent. for the manufacturer
binds himself months in advance
what he will pay Tor his raw pro-
duct. the beet. and II the worlds
crop turns out very large. as the
past year. for instance. he stands
to lose many Thousands OF dollars.
We cannot quarrel with Mr.. keal.
ing for voting for duty free sugar.
He WAS elected upon a free suga.
campaign. though he should rec.s;
nize, as President Wilson does. tina,
the country did not go democratic.
Having been elected upon fire,
sugar campaign. however. he is With
In his rights in the standpoint he
takes. but 1t is wrong. II is un-
just to his constituency to maintain
that the sugar business can sur
vive without some tariff protection.
| " by not take the more manly cOurse
of some of his colleagues in con
gress. that 1t is an Improbable un-
ldertaking for the American peopi,
to develop a home supply OF sugar.
that it is not in accord with demo
cratic doctrine. then we should know
what to expect. But, to affirm that
the sugar Industry does not at this
time need protection is not square
deal to his constituency.
As a matter of fact, there is not
one beet sugar company in the
world, even though it be an ex-
porting country but has a protective
duty on sugar to protect its domes
tic industry from the competition o.
| tropical sugar. The American beet
sugar industry has prospered dur
ing the past decade but not to the
extent of the German industry
Germany completes with all the
world. For the United states to
do likewise, the logical thing to
do is to bring about conditions to
do likewise. That means to re-
duces the purchase cost of beets t,
about $500 per ton and cut labor
rates so per cent. Also. it means
that the sugar content of the beet
must be raised about 40 pounds
per ton of beets to place us on
similar basis.
We cannot quarrel with Mr.. Keat.
ing's determination for duty free
sugar. but we can and do quarrel
with his erroneous and unsupport-
ed statements which he makes and
which does untold injury to the in