Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-08-01
FORDNEY OF MICHIGAN ARRAIGNS THE TARIFF

. upon the floor Of the senate. gave a
, few illustrations Of the tariff disaster
which has oyertaken his people. He
said:
THE Miles Planting Co abandoned
, their properties in Ascension and st
James parishes, containing over $4,000
acres, fully equipped with three large
factories and railroads. They have
sold OF their live stock and are now
Offering their factories at wrecking
value. Part of the lands have been
leased for rice, and other crops, but a
large portion are idle and the labor
has moved away. The loss to the
Z tbove company, composed OF the
! daughter and son OF Gen. Miles, is not
less than half a million.
In Terrebonne parish the Argyle
property Is now under seizure. The
owner will sell at fifty to seventy-five
thousand, while three years ago he
purchased one-quarter interest from
his brother for one hundred thousand.
This shows a loss Of over three hun
dred thousand.
The Bayou sale property Of Mr..
Wahl and others, consisting Of about
1000 acres, has been entirely aban
doned, due to the fact that they were
unable to secure the money to operate.
The seed cane saved to plant in jan
uary has not been touched, and the
loss On this place is at least hundred
thousand
The losses to sugar district since
Underwood tariff was talked Of or be-
came effective amount to not less than
$4,000, 900 and will be that much more
at the end Of another year, when 80
per cent of the properties will be
abandoned and expensive factories
sold for Junk ! could cite dozens
more abandoned places II desired"
This is the practical side Of the
sugar question. But. like all great
Questions, 1t also has a sentimental
side. ." ..... - ~.
Let us turn to the record of the Bal
timore convention in the opening DAYS
If we would understand why the Amer
Joan sugar growers feel so deeplv on
this question. In telegram sent from
Baltimore to the New Orleans Picay.
una before the balloting began, and
published on the first pace of its issue
Of June 26, we find the following:
THE Texas delegation made COM
mon cause with the Louisianans to-
dav in the effort to get in the platform
some expression which would act as
a protection of sugar in the future"
It was those men from the sugar
growing states of the south who stood
IKE adamant for Mr.. Wilson against
thea ssaults of most Of the other
southern states in the battle for the
The representatives from
the other southern states who follow
ed Hon. Ollie James in the senate and
Mr.. Hardwick in the house in destroy
ing the sugar industry of southern
Louisiana and TEXAS were simply re-
venging themselves because the repre-
sentatives of those sugar states held
out for Mr.. Wilson and insured his
nomination at baltimore .4..g..
This Is clearly shown bv the rec
ord.s Take the vote of the solid south
after the II ballots. on the last ballot
token dussday tffe DAY befoTe: 81 OF
the southern states broke to Wilson
and ATTEMPTED to out-Herod Herod in
their devotion to the nominee. II is
tynical of the balloting that had been
going on from the beginning and reads
like poetic Justice when we recall what
the nominee and the solid south did
to the domestic sugar industry later
on when they came to revise the tariff.
Here is the forty-second ballot .(Wil-
son, Clark and Underwood)3 ~.