The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1913-05-10

Let us see by this document i
take the gentleman's very statement
paid for printed. and posted, the
efforts and time Of the gentleman VINO
issues 1t, paid for by SprecKies, the
refiner. What does 1t show? 1t was
alleged here when Cuban reciprocity
was up, when the proposition was
reduction of so per cent, that the re-
duction was to help the CUBAN pant
err. When the proposition OF 20 per
cent, which finally became law, was
under consideration, the argument
was that we owed that much to the
Cuban planter. The bill had not been
law more than IS months when the
Cuban planters were complaining to
Congress that the refners, including
Spreckles, the employer OF Lowry'
was absorbing the entire 20 per cent
which congress supposed they mad
given the Cuban planter. Now. what
appears here in this document!
Lowry says this on the 18th or April
Cuban sugars are today selling at
cents, cost and freight, and pay
tariff Of 1 .34S cents. San Domingo
sugars (nonprivileged) are ofiered n
2. O6 cents per pound, cost and freight
New York, and pay duty OF l.6Sb
per pound.
We gave 20 per cent, according TO
this gentleman's statement-snd !
have verified the statements and
know they are correct, ne gave 70
per cent to the Cuban planter. That
sugar, bought in bond, upon which
the refner pays .34S, sells for less
than the sugar that isRrought from
San Domingo that payS .6S5 1t Is
therefore evident to any man who wi
stop to look in,o the matter, teat the
Cuban planter does not get one cent
of the 20 per cent reduction. Now,
then, does the consumer Of this coun-
try get the reduction? Will any man
get up and say so? This card which
my friend handed me gives the differ-
ence between the New York price Of
sugar that come from Cuba and the
New York price Of the sugar that
come from San Domingo. Both sugar
once refined sell for the same price
to the consumer, and II the Cuban
planter sells his sugar cheaper In
bond to the refiner, including Mr..
Spreckels for less money despite
the 20 per cent preferential he has
than the San Domingo planter who
pays the full duty, it is evident that
| the Cuban planter gets none OF the
benefit of the 20 per cent reduction
| On the other hand, IL the consumer
Of this country can not distinguish
between the Cuban and the San DO
mingo sugar after Mr.. Spreckles has
refined 1t, but must pay the same
price for each, 1t Is evident to any
man who will think about 1t at al
that the entire difference between the
difference in duty on San Domingo
and Cuban sugar is absorbed by the
refner.
The American producer does not
get a cent of the 20 per cent reduc-
ton. He can not possibly get cent
of 1t in spite of this card saying th''
free sugar would give my friend t'e
same sugar which he purchased only
yesterday at Az cents pound for
Q 10 cents a pound. Besides, note
the bunco game attempted upon the
consumer. Free sugar, II urges on
the card, while to you gentlemen OF
the House the same sympathetic
gentleman tells you daily he does not
really wish free sugar, but six hun
dred and four one-thousandths Of a
cent, so as to enable him at one and
the same time to kill his competitors
and permit him to continue to reap
the benefits Of the 20 per cent Cuban
preferential
As matter of fact, the reflner
buys his sugar cheaper from the man
who produces it in Cuba than from
the man producing sugar elsewhere
despite the advantage of 20 per cent
on the rate of duty fixed in the law;
but when he comes to sell 1t to you
and to me he sells both for the same
price, and thus absorbs the entire %
per cent. This is not novel propo
sition. Back in 1872 or 1873 this re
public made a treaty with the then
Kingdom Of Hawaii by which the su
gar from those islands should come
in free. This was done, so 1t was
claimed to reduce the price of sugN
to American consumers on the Pacific
coast. Three years after that treaty
was enacted. in 1876, and for the en-
tire term Of the treaty this dispro
portion was maintained, that sugar
sold on the Pacific coast at 10 cents