The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1913-01-11
DoNALDsoNyILLE. La. SATURDAY, JANUARY Il 1913.
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/ WILL not cHEaPEN SUGAR.
Reduction Of Tariff Will Not Affee
Price of Commodity, While Ruin
ing louisiana Industry and Max
ing American Consumer Depend
ent Upon Foreign Producer.
Any serious reduction in the su
gar schedule will not only annihiIate
the Louisiana industry, but will, in
the long run, fail to cheaper sugar
to the American consumer because IL
will make that consumer more de.
pendent upon both the foreign pro.
ducer and the sugar trust, is the
opinion of E. A. Pharr, prominent
lawyer and sugar planter of st. Mary
parish. In discussing the situation
with reference to lowering the tariff
or removing it altogether, Mr.. Pharr
declared he did not understand how
the house of representatives can
again stand for the free sugar bill,
since it has been clearly shown
that were sugar put upon the free
list the signatory powers of the Brus-
sells conference will declare the Unit
ed States to be no longer convention
territory.
.That would permit bounty-fed
sugars, especially from Russia, TO be
dumped upon the American market
at a price perhaps even far below the
cost of production, :" said Mr.. Pharr.
''The result would be the complete
devastation of Louisiana sugar, the
beet sugar OF the western states and
the serious crippling OF the Hawaiian
and Porto Rican sugar industry he
continued.
After our industry has been de.
stroyed, the signatory powers to the
Brussels conference will declare this
to again be convention territory and
eliminate from the American market
all sugars except those produced by
themselves. At that time we will be
forced to buy at a. price setSby those,
signatory powers themselves, and
perhaps the supply might be GER
tain allotment from each of the coun-
tries party to the Brussels confer
ence."
MIR. Pharr pointed out how sugar
has been the one article Eof food
which is legislated upon internation-
ally to such an extent that the
Kyesflf does not rod dnee a
considerable part, at least, of its
sumption is at the mercy of those
other countries constituting the Brus-
sels conference
TT should be remembered by the
people who are in favor of free SUI
gar today that the campaign to take
the tariff off sugar has been brought
about solely by the refiners who are,
5ear by year, losing a greater share
of this market to the home producers
Of sugar. But for the refiners' fear
beet and cane sugar grown in the
United States, there would have
been no cry for free sugar, because
it is the only food product which has
consistently declined in price by de-
cades through the past fifty years.
Sugar has declined about per
cent in price during the last ten
years, while other food commodities
have increased in price from 10 per
cent to So per cent.
Mr.. Pharr anticipates that should
the duty be removed from sugar it
will be but a matter of time until
the powers in the Brussels conference
will absolutely control the American
market for sugar. That conference
resulted in an agreement between
European nations not to pay export
bounties. To the agreement, how
ever, Russia is bound for only a
very small part of her production,
although she cannot ship sugar to
this country by sea, except in cer-
tain allotted amounts, fixed by the
conference. The agreement was
reached after many years of effort,
when England, in order to help her
refining interests and her colonial
sugar industry, induced Germany and
France more especially, to discontinue
ing in the sale of their sugar pro-
ducts at prices below cost. 1t was
contended by Well-posted sugar in
terests that England had another
motive in bringing about the Brus-
sells conference, and that was TO
prevent France and Germany from
the further artificial stimulation Of
their sugar production by export boun
tended, would, if continued, have
tinued, would, if continued. have
made Germany and France the only
sugar producers of the Old World
and would have resulted in great
embarrassment to England in time
of war. Since the agreement enter
ed into at Brussels, practically every
country of the world is attempting
to produce its own sugar.
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