Semi-weekly herald., 1913-06-30


neither injure nor destroy it.
That is all that The News is con-
tending for. It's contentious are not in
the interests of the sugar manufac- !
turers. The Great Western Sugar
company does not concur in the
amount of tariff reduction the News
insists upon. The News starts with
the reduction to 81 per cwt., which
the Underwood bill deems to be fair
at present. The sugar makers insist
that it shall continue at that figure
indefinitely; the News insists that the
81 shall be reduced to rs cents at the
end of two years, and to so cents at
the end of the three years follow
ing, and continue at that until ex-
perience and investigation will show
that it may be safely placed upon the
free list
News Struggle is for Beet Growers
TheNews does not care rap for the
Western Sugar company. 1t recog-
nizes that it has forced from con-
sumers the very highest price it could,
and that was an indefensibly large
proit-sustained as they are by the
present unwarranted high duty-but
who. engaged in big business nova
days wouldn't and don't do the same
thing. But the sugar company is suf-
fering for it now; and if sugar shall
be put on the free list it will be be-
cause of the indignation aroused by
their exceedingly high profits and the
devious ways they pursued to gain
them.
The News struggle is not for the
sugar makers; it is for the farmers
the beet growers.
fers putting sugor on the free list for
three years is confession that to
put it on the free list NOW would
very probably destroy it. If to pre-
vent it's immediate destruction it is
necessary to grant duty of a cent
q pound for three years, upon what
authority can it be accepted that it
will be able to do without its sus-
tanning arm after the three years?
Free Sugar would Cut Price of Beets
Upon what is said to be good auth
ority, it is said that the growing of
sugar beets has doubled the selling
price of lands in the sugar counties.
Is that true? 1t is also asserted that
it is the best profit paying crop a
farmer can now raise in the sugar
counties. Is that true
If it is, and sugar goes on the free
list, judging by the Underwood bill
itself, it can do so only by economies
in two directions; by the sugar COM
panies discovering and enforcing new
economies and the farmers selling
their beets at less price than is now
paid. How much less The News
doesn't know; but it believes it would
prove a calamity to both the farmers
and the state should beet growers be
compelled to take less. Instead of do
ing so, they all declare they will
cease the beet industry and till their
lands for other crops.
And The News would regard it as
a state calamity should the beet
factories be closed up, 1t would be
the speedy annihilation of import
ant capital-and the state should not
invite that at this time.
Welfare of Colorado Behind The News
An esteemed correspondent asks
The News: who is behind this eff
fort of The News to induce our sena-
tors to vote against free sugar ~
intimating that The News has enter
ed the service of the sugar trust.
The News is proud that from its
twenty-five years of service for the
people that the great mass of people
KNOW that no man or company has
money enough to purchase its support
1t is unnecessary TO further answer
the base insinuation, that could only
eminate from an unclean mind. Yet
The News will state what is behind
the effort to preserve the sugar in
dustry in Colorado. 1t is the welfare
of the state; it is the retention of
the states present degree of pros
perity-whatever that may be. and to
add increased prosperity to it in the
future, as the industry grows in ex-
tent and importance, 1t is to retain
the present values of the lands of
Colorado farmers and not squeez them
out as the sugar industry dwindles
and mayhap ultimately perishes. 1t
is the intelligent selfishness that is
not willing to add further disaster to
the industries and business Of the
state-and, finally, it is out of regard
for the honor and plighted faith of
the Democratic party, and the desire
of the News to maintain it as a con-
ouering vital force constantly exer-
eised for the upbuilding of the state,
The News is free to admit that it
is not q neutrality-suspicious. he
be the president tof the United States
or one of its more humble citizens.
1t stands for the honor and faith and
welfare Of the state-not unmindful
of its duty to the entire country; but
ALWAYS remembering that Marty hind