Gilpin observer., 1913-08-28
WASHINGTON NEWS
By Edward Heating.

Do you remember how few years
ago Colora1o's representatives In
Congress were urged to flight to
the las. ditch" to defeat President
Taft's proposal to admit yearly ove-
three hundred thousand tons of ra W
sugar, duty free from the PHILIPPINES?
Do you remember that you were
assured that Colorado could not COM
p with the ''pauper .abor" of our
island possessions, and that the pass
age OF the Taft bill would be follow
ed by thte closing down of the Colo
RADIO sugar factories and by the ''ut-
ter destruction OF this great In
dustry'?
10 you remember the red-hct res
olutions adopted by the Dejser Cham
bsr of Commerce protesting against
the outrage, and the miles and
miles of double loaded editorials print
ed in the "sugared" papers, pictur-
ing Colorado as a Goth century Ra-
chel, lamenting at the bier of her
fairest and fattest child?
Of course, you remember these
things. Who that lived in Colorado
at the time could forget them?
Perhaps you will also recall that
the bill passed, and that the factor
les did not close, but, as our friend
Kipling says, that's another story"
What l started out to tell you was
that the F'ilipinos no longer menace
Colorado's beet sugar industry. In
the future 1t will not be considered
good form to refer to them as pau
per laborers''. They are now sturdy
American yeomen", and they must
be projected frcm the demoralizing
competition of the pauper labor of
other sugar producing countries.
This amazing metamorphcsis is an
nounced in letter written by Mr..
Earnshaw, resident commissioner in
Washington from the Philippine is
lands to Senator C. S. Thomas Ern-
shaw calls on the senator to help
defeat the Underwood bill because
free sugar would pauperize the Fill
pines.
Senator's Fairy Tales
l recall the speeches of certain
former United States senators from
Colorado on the sugar producing pos
sibiities OF the Philippines. They
We're very eloquent and very persua-
sive senators, and they called them
selves Democrats, and they were
Democrats-except on the tariff. On
that issue they were willing to alb
andon their party, for they said even
partial free trade with the Philippin-
es meant the wiping out of the
beet sugar industry in Colorado.
Ore of these senators went to the
islanSs to investigate for himself,
ard when he returue q. he announced
that tie Fil 'ncs could produce all
the sugar consumed in this country al
ohe-hals the cost III = oduction in
| Colorado. ri;er the Deliver Cham.
oer bf CoTnp.se met and gravsly
adopted same 4pcrc n solut.ons de
plo:ing the outrage" involved in ad-
hitting even three noLared thousand
tons of sugar froI The islands.
Now We have it On the word OF
the Filipino commissioner that the
eloquent senator's persuasive speech
es, and the torrid resolutions of the
chamber of commerce were fairy tai
es, and that the Filipino sugar plant
ers will be ruined If the United Stat
es gives its citizens the benefit OF
free sugar.
Evidently the Representatives of the
sugar trust have lost their sense OF
humor or they would not have put
the Filipino witness on the stand.
Fooling "Reuben".
Senator Hoke Smith. Of Georgia, dc
livered one OF the most effective o
the speeches delivered in congres.
during the tariff debate. The Tory
publicans-Penrose. Smoot and Ga
langer-had been shedding crocodile
tears over the sad fate which await
ed the American farmer under the
Underwood bill. That has been the
burden of their speeches for the las
six weeks. and Smith decided e
break the silence on the Democrati,
side long enough to expose them.
He showed that number one North
ern whpat 10 sailing Cor az mud opa
half cents a bushel in Winnipeg, Can
ada, and SO and one-half cents II
Minneapolis, MINI. or course, W,
have tariff ON wheat and the Tor
les have been assuring the senate
that its repeal would ruin the farm