The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-07-22

by growing them In rotation with
sugar beets.
The question of the tariff treatment
of sugar is not merely a tariff ques-
ton. 1t has a vital bearing upon the
most important economic problem be-
fore the nation today-the problem of
increasing the country's food supply
by higher acreage yields from our
cultivated areas.
Quoting other publications the
bulletin continues with the following
comments: .s# &"
.... A Kansas View.
The New York Journal of Commerce
is conducting a symposium of opinions
from western business men as to trade
conditions in their various communi-
ties. n Of these, published on July
3, over the signature Of P. |. Bone
brake, president Of the Central Ma
tional bank of Topeka, is interesting
as illustrating what seems to be the
general opinion of western business
men in regard to the plan to destroy
the domestic. sugar industry by hand
ing the sugar market OF the country
over to the control Of the big refiners
through the device of free raw sugar.
The statement concludes as follows:
If United States Senator Thompson
helps to make free sugar he will cause
a loss of $4,000, 900 to his immediate
neighbors and assist in breaking up an
industry that provides much for the
future prosperity of western Kansas
n eastern Colorado. Sugar is now
selling at less than 5 cents a pound
here. A man who wants it for less is
a hog"
According to reports from Canada
representatives of a German syndicate
are investigating the possibilities OF
sugar beet growing there, with a view
to establishing Canadian factories.
Getting the Facts.
Saturday Evening Post: 1T should
not be forgotten, by the way, that the
democratic party deliberately invited
the numerous, powerful and insidi-
GUS" tariff lobby, of which President
Wilson complained not long ago. MOI
even triumphant democracy a legis-
late In a vacuum.
Leslie's Weekly: There Is no occa-
sion to put sugar on the free list fol
We are not suffering from high priced
sugar. In every country of Europe
except England, sugar is higher thar
1t is here. And in the general rise ir
prices in recent years, sugar is prac-
tically the only one OF the worlds
great food products which has aeclin.
ed Instead of advanced. Why, chen
Il 80 ~ - SAAS
out to be destroyed?
Salt Lake City (Utah) Herald: il
the 5refineries' combine chooses to give
the public the benefit of the reduction
under free trade. the saving TO a fani-
ly will be about So cents a year on Its
sugar bill. If the trust behaves as q
trust may reasonably be expected tc
behave, the western sugar industry
will have been ruined without any
benefit whatever accruing to the con-
sumner.
Sioux City (Ia.) Journal: Who paid
the expenses of the free sugar lobby:
The head lobbyist was on the stand
the other day and testified that al
Though the lobby was operating in the
name OF the committee of wholesale
grocers' it was really backed by the
Federal Sugar Refining Co., q cane
sugar refining concern admitted to bic
interested not only in getting cheaper
Iraw ane sugar for refining, but In
destroying the competition of the beef
sugar factories.
New Orleans (Ia.) Times-Demo-
GRAFT. Democratic opinion lis sharply
divided as to whether q not the free
ngar provision amounts To e direci
violation Of the Baltimore platform
But we do not. see how there can be
two opinions regarding the duty i'll
lsenatoTs who, on the strength of TIKI
platform and additional assurances
from national leaders of the dernoc-
racy, promised the people OF theil
states that ait least revenue duty
/ would be maintained upon ugar.