The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1913-09-06

trust, owing to a. sentiment tor Tree
sugar manufactured by the refiners
themselves, and thus do away with
the only competition they have. 1t
is well to remember that parties in
all countries and in all times have
occasionally enacted unjust laws that
have caused dissension In their
ranks, quarrels and then their down
fall Then why should the Demo-
cratic party bring into active being
a measure that has no cause for ex-
listing and might it not, like Frank
enstein, have it's own existence end
ed by this Nemesis? Already dissat-
isfaction is spreading in the south
and west at tariff bill that dis
-criminates In favor OF the north and
east, as against the south and west,
on the special items Of iron, cotton
goods, sugar and wool, and when the
tariff bill is finally written and such
inequalities are embodied in it, de-
feat will surely stare the party in
the face in the approaching congress
sionaI election.
"8. AS an Injustice to the Consul
mer-As soon as the sugar refiners
have destroyed the independent SUI
gar producers; which will take about
one year under free sugar, history
has shown they will charge any price
they see fit as soon as the only com-
petition is done away with. This
statement is matter of record.
AT present sugar to the consumer
is cheaper in the United States than
in Europe on the average, some
countries being 100 per cent higher
than the United States, and only Eng
land being as low Or IoWer-this is
from the fact that these countries
have an excise tax as well as other
taxes, such as import, surtax and
bounties, both open and concealed,
Brazil has put an export duty on
Coffee know of no law or argument
that will be sufficient to stop other
countries from putting an export duty
on sugar SHOULD they see fit after the
United States stops producing sugar.
SO. AS a Matter Of Expediency-
Were the United States to be at
war with any powerful maritime ma
ton, like England, Germany, France,
Italy OR Japan, her merchant marine,
which is very small, would be imme
diately pressed into service as col
Iiers or service ships. Sugar would
be a contraband of war, and it would
be an impossible thing to get a sup
ply for the country, and the United
States would be without sugar were
her domestic supply destroyed, and
the price would advance enormously.
40 AS an Injustice to Labor
Free trade On sugar would be an in
justice to the 1aborer, who, a consul
mer as well as producer, living
under conditions in the United States
which are the best in the world for
laborers, would have to compete with
Russian labor at 20 cents a day and
the labor of the Orient at less. and
who, instead of living as does the
American laboring citizen, exists,
lacking in great many instances the
necessities of life. Revolving at SIM
liar conditions, what could the Amer
ican sugar producer, trained to this
work, go into to keep from stealing
or starving to death, and did they
all eventually find something to do,
would it not be in competition and
at the expense of others in various
lines of industry? Especially true Is
this of the Louisiana 1aborer, train
ed through long years of service in
her chief industry"