Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1914-07-17
STATEMENT MADE THAT MAIL
ORDER HOUSE GETS SUGAR
LESS THAN OTHERS.
NO WONDER THEY USE n FOR LEADER
May Be Deal Aimed at Beet Sugar In
dustry-Farmer Should Beware Of
His Own Interests In Buying
Away From Home.

made nowadays that the great mail
order houses, il not actually owned by
the "59 financiers" who control the
principal trusts, do at least work un-
der a community of interest with
these same trust financiers. There
appears to be some proof OF the
charge in the address of J. Leyden
White at a big gathering of retailers
in New York last month. He said:
In my possession is leaf from the
March and April grocery list of Mont
gomery Ward & Company. Featured
on the title page is this:
"35 pounds Of granulated sugar $1.00
with $40 grocery order.
40 pounds Of granulated sugar $500
with a $40 grocery order.
"105 pounds of granulated sugar So
with $50 grocery order"
On the following page there is much
detail as to the sugar offers OF this
house, but the two most significant
statements are these:
I'VE sell sugar, year in and year out,
at cost, and will guarantee to charge
you less than the Chicago wholesale
price the day your order is received"
But of the two statements the fol-
lowing is the most vital: 1--WE do not
handle beet sugar"
Now get close, my fellow fighters,
and read the following letter, written
to me the day before came to New
York, by the greatest sugar statisti-
clan and leading sugar authority, and
the staunchest friend the American
beet grower ever had.
"In reply to your inquiry as to the
Chicago wholesale price, on or about
April list, of standard, hard, or granu-
lated sugar, would say, that on April
6, the Chicago wholesale price of east
ern cane granulated was 4.121s cents
per pound, less 2 per cent, and the
western granulated beet 3.971s cents
per pound, less per cent; or 4.O4A
cents, and 1904 cents respectively.
"You say that you understand that
one concern in Chicago is selling IS
pounds of granulated sugar for $1.00
or 2.s57 cents per pound. II this be
so, one of two things must be true,
either they are losing 1.1S1k cents or
1.O3s cents per pound according to
whether this sugar Is cane or beet, or
they are securing secret rebates from
the eastern refiners."
Now, keep your thinker clear. and
let us reason together. II Montgom-
cry Ward & Co. are Intentionally los
ing money on sugar, as sugar whether
made from cane or beet is chemically
the same, it stands to reason that they
would buy the sugar upon which they
would lose the least, il they are losing
anything.
AS they boldly announce, I'VE do
not handle beet sugar." we must take
their word for it that they are send
ing out cane sugar, trust sugar, and
are therefore losing, II they are losing
anything, 1.1sh cents per pound, in
place of the lesser loss Of 1.03s cents
per pound that would be the approx
innate loss on beet sugar.
Assuming that they have the choice
of two rates Of loss, why do they take
the greater? 1t seems to me that the
answer obviously is. that they are
probably not losing anything on sugar,
but that, to quote the sugar expert:
"they are securing secret rebates from
the eastern reflners."
Assuming this to be so, what object
can the cane sugar refiners have. what
return can they receive for the re-
bates given? Is 1t unfair to assume
that the object IL to injure, to de
crease the use Of and confidence In
American beet sugar?
Again note the heralded statement
I'VE do not handle beet sugar" Il
that the recompense for the rebate?
Now think politics for minute. DE-
not bother about party. Think about
what others said.
In the arguments for reducing thu
tariff sugar cut the biggest figure. Tit
affirmative arguments were chiefly
that q reduced tariff on sugar woult
benefit all, for these reasons: That al
America produced only fraction o
the sugar 1t used. the lowering of tarif
would increase importations and auto
matically lower the price. That Will,
only one state, Louisiana. raised suga
cane commercially, the demand wa
such that 1t would still have profit
able market. As to sugar beets, Will
many states raise them, while 1t Is on
of the most promising agriculture
products of the period, cheapening al
sugar would SO increase the consumI
ton of sugar that "free sugar" woul
thus stimulate and benefit the bee
sugar business.
Now we find that the wholesal
price Of beet sugar Is less than tbs
of cane sugar. We find this great ma
order house selling the most cost