Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-05-26

IF the bill now pending in congress
to take off the duty on sugar in 1916
becomes a law, il will spell the doom
of the sugar beet industry in Colo
RADIO" declared Chester S. Morey.
president of the Great Western Sugar
Company, at the weekly luncheon of
the real estate exchange in the
Adams hotel. only two or three
sugar beet factories In the state
would be able to run at all, AMI even
they could operate but on very
small basis" says the Denver Post
"The abolition of the tariff on
sugar would mean a loss Of about
$2G,000,000 per year to the farmers
of Colorado, for the industry brought
them that amount last year, and what
industry can be built up to take its
place to that extent?'
State Prospect With This
Industry
Mr.. Morey stated that in 1901, when
the industry was still in its infancy
in Colorado, the sugar beet growers
were paid $3.50. per ton for their
beets and that the average price paid
last year was Sc per ton. He said:
1.-The sugar beet industry is well
suited for Colorado and Colorado is
well suited for it. In the years that
sugar beets have been grown here
we have had no pests to destroy the
crop, no blight or drouth to affect 1t,
with the result that it has grown and
thrived, to the prosperity Of the
state.
IF the tariff is reduced it will work
hardship on the beet growers more
than on the sugar companies, for the
price of the beets to the farmers will
have to be reduced to conform with
the market price set by the tariff.
In describing the growth OF the In
| dustry In the state Mr.. Morey said
! that the sugar manufactured in Colo
RADIO in 1900 amounted to 1882 tons:
| in 1905 it was 93,253 tons, and in
1912 the output was $4,000 tons,
each ton consisting of 2240 pounds.
Mr.. Morey closed his remarks by
saying: IF the political party which
elected Colorado's present repre-
sentatives in congress is interested in
the sugar beet industry in the state
and the welfare of the state, it should
make itself heard at once and appeal
to the men in Washington to uphold
the tariff. / received telegram from
Washington last night which states
that President Wilson announced in
a speech before the public that he
had heard only from special interests
and not from the people of the nation
except those favoring the tariff bill
U. s. viii Be Only Free
( Sugar Nation ,.~1 .sas = .stssa -
C. c. Hamlin, president of the Un'
| tied States Sugar & Land Company
asserted that the time was past when
the people can talk about running the
sugar factories under free tariff
and that IL congress took off the tariff
| the United States would be the only
civilized country in the world which
would have free sugar. He remarked
that even England, which produces
practically no sugar and which i'm
ports most all that it uses, has a
protective tariff.
IF we had free sugar, all of the
surplus sugar in the world would be
| thrown on our market at such a low
price that the American producer
could not compete with it. Cuban
sugar is now selling on the New
York market for cents pound.
Chairman Underwood of the ways
and means committee of the house
once stated that he intended to lower
the tariff with jack-screw and not
with an axe, but it looks to me as II
| he Is using the iack-screW in one
place and the ak in another, par.
ticularly in Colorado. This bill is an
absolute violation of the pledge OF
the Democratic party, and President
Wilson said on the stump before his
election that he would destroy no in.
dustry.
THE refineries in the east are
working for the reduction and aboli.
ton of the tariff, because they are
nearer to foreign sugar and the native
product and because Colorado and
other western beet sugar states are