The Lamar register., 1913-05-21
FREE SUGAR
Ooon@,essman Heating Voting tn
to Destroy = Crest Industry
and AAs.epresentinx Facts
at Same Time

the papers in the towns OF the Ar
KANSAS valley. IN these letters Mr..
heutlhg has eApi essed himself ELL
puaIicaiiy as beng III FAVOR OF
Tree sugar. lnasmuch as there As
not another state in the Union III
wnieh the beet sugar industry
plays SO important a part in the
Dusincss Lille OF the state. any
move which will injuie Oh tend To
iniure the Deet sugar industry viii
DE more xeeniy felt in COLORADO
,lnd the ARKANSAS valley than any
where else in the country.
In NO other STATE. aud no othe,
section OF the country. Is the bee
sugar industry 90 large a part OIL tue
agricultural prosperity OF the COM
munity than 1t Is in Colorado ana
the Arkansas valley. Michigan ana
California rival colorado in sugar
production but in neither of tnese
states u 30 large a proportion o.
the population Interested in the
growing OF the raw material and
the manufacture OF sugar therefrom.
Al no other state IL 30 great l.
percentage al the total wealth In
vested In the sugar industry.
In view Of these facts. it Is but
natural 70 expect that the Co.Jrado
represe natives OF the people in
Congress would have taken partic-
ular pains to inform themselves on
the sugar situation. and It 10 ex-
ceedingly unfortunate for the state
that this 10 not true.
Congressman KsatinS assumes the
position that the best sugar indus-
try can live without the tariff and
intimates that he has informed the
president to that effect. Anyone
willing to 20 to . little trouble can
easily inform himself OF the error
OF such . position.
In the testimony before the Hard
wick committee of Congress 1t was
brought out that the average cost
per hunrded pounds was about $3.50
To which must be added the sales
cost. including freight. commissions.
insurance. ETC.. which will be about
so cents per hundred. making the
total cost about $40 per hundred.
The average Wholesale price of su
gar for the past 10 years has been
about $3.50 per hundred. Ii. then
the duty. as present averaging $l.34
per hundred, 10 removed. and sugar
drops correspondingly. leaving the
sales price of sugar at about $3.50.
how. then. in the face of these
facts. can Mr.. Heating take the
position that tie sugar industry can
survive with sugar duty free.
Mr.. Heating says: Now. in free
'rade England. where the surplus
sugars OF the world are dumped, the
price never gets below four cents"
But in free trade England sugar is
not free but duty OF 40 cents per
hundred 10 levied.
Ii sugar does not drop with the
removal OF the tariff, as Mr.. Keat-
ing seems to think. why then re-
move the tariff and rob the ma
tional treasury OF some $4,000
600 revenue which will have to be
raised otherwise. Ia not that a
most unreasonable position to as
sum~f
German farmers" says Heating,
got more for their beets than
American farmers do. and the cost
of operating a factory here Is not
much more than It Is across the
water"
Unfortunately. this statement is
not true. The American farmer is
paid about cents a pound of su
gar In the beet. The German farm
er receives about ~ cents a pound.
or less. Furthermore, the German
farmer 3 beet is OF a decidedly high
er purity and sugar content. max
ing the extraction OF sugar decided
Iy more economical. The cost Of
operating q factory in the United