The daily sentinel., 1913-08-28
(By Edward Keating.)
Congressman -at-Large From CC

Congressman -at-Large From Colo
RADIO.
Washington, d. C., Aug. 2S.-Do
you remember how 4 few years ago
Colorado's representatives in con-
gress were urge to right to the last
ditch" to defeat President Taft's pro-
posal to admit yearly three hundred
thousand tons of raw sugar duty free
from the Philippines?
Do you remember that you were
assured that Colorado could not com
pete with the 'pauper labor" of our
island possessions, and that the pas
sage OF the Taft bill would be follow
ed by closing down of the Colorado
sugar factories, and by the utter
destruction of this great industry -"
Do you remember the ed-hot reso-
lutions adopted by the Denver cham
Der of commerce protesting against
the outrage and the miles of
double-leaded editorials printed in
the 'sugared" papers picturing Colo
rado as a 10th century Rachel la
menting at the bier OF her fairest and
fattest child.
or course, you remember these
things. Who that lived in Colorado
at the time could forget them?
Perhaps you will also recall that
the bin passed and that the factories
did not close, but as our friend Kip
ling would say. that's another
story"
What started out to tell you was
that the Filipinos no longer menace
Colorado's beet sugar industry. Here
after 1t will not be considered good
form to refer to them as "pauper la
borers." They are now sturdy Am
erican yeomen,' and they must be
protected" from the "demoralizing
competition OF the pauper labor of
other sugar producing countries"
This amazing metamorphosis is an
nounced in a letter written by NJ.
Earnshaw. resident commissioner in
Washington from the Philippine ISL
ands to Senator C. S. Thomas, Earn
shaw calls on the senator to help de-
feat the Underwood bill because free
sugar would pauperize the Filipinos.
Senator's Fairy Tales.
i recall the speeches of certain
former United States senators from
Colorado on the sugar producing pos
sibilities of the Philippines. They
were very eloquent and very persua-
siys senators, and they called them
selves democrats. and they were dem
issue they were willing to abandon
their party, for they said even partial
free trade with the Philippines meant
the wiping out of the beet sugar in.
dustry in Colorado.
One of these senators went to the
islands to investigate for himself. and
when he returned he announced that
the FilipinoS could produce all the
sugar consumed in this country at
one-half the cost of production in
Colorado. Then the Denver chamber
OF commerce met and gravely adopted
some more resolutions deploring the
outrage involved in admitting even
thrfI hundred thousands tons OF
sugA from the islands,
INV we have 1t on the word of the
FiliIEno commissioner that the elo-
quent senator's persuasive speeches,
the torrid resolutions of the chamber
OF commerce were merely fairy tales,
and that the Filipino sugar planters
viii be ruined If the United States
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.
FOOIn& 'fteuDen.
Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia de-
iyered one of the most effective
speeches delivered in congress dur
ing the tariff debate. The tory re-
publicans. Penrose, Smoot and Gal
laner, had been shedding crocodile
tears over the sad fate which awaited
the American farmer under the Tn
derwood bill That has been the bur
den of their speeches for the last six
weeks, and Smith decided to break
the silence on the democratic side
long enough to expose them.
He showed that number one north
ern wheat is selling for 95 " cents a
bushel in Winnipeg, Canada, and
80 2 cents in Minneapolis, MINI. or
course, We have a tariff on wheat
and the tories have been assuring the
senate that its repeal would ruin the
farmers of Minnesota and the Dako-
tas, who would be compelled to COM
pete with the 'pauper labor" of Can
ada. Now it appears that the pau
per labor" of Canada is getting more
for its wheat than the protected
farmer" of the United States
Senator Smith considered the case
or corn. The United States produc-
es three-fourths of the corn crop of
the world. Corn brings lower price