Gilpin observer., 1914-07-09

which Carried tne III from CalveStOn.
on minor questions will not be per
mitted to interfere with proper team
work on the main issues.
Sugar Trust Active.
The sugar lobby" has reappeared
in Washington. The old offices have
been opened up. the old press
agents are once more drawing salar-
les and the standpat congressman are
filling the Congressional Record with
made to order speeches urging a re-
tention of the tariff
There was a time when the trust
assured US that we could not produce
sugar in this country unless we had a
tariff Of almost two cents a pound
Later on it was willing to get along
with one and one-half cents a pound
Now 1t is clamOring for one cent a
pound and 1t would shed tears of joy
IL 1t could get a tariff of half cent
a pound. The latter rate would add
$25,00O.0OO a year to the sugar inter
ests' profits. Such a prize as that is
worth fighting for, and the trust is
figuring on putting a lot of money
into this falls campaign.
1t is particularly interested in the
Colorado fight. It expects to be per-
mitted to name the Republican candi-
datn fne fo@ nd
and II 1t succeeds in electing them will
herald the victory as a mandate for
the restoration Of the tariff on sugar.
The press agents Of the trust are
revamping their old-time fakes. but
they find that the public is not in
a mood to accept them without ques-
tion. The trusts champions in con-
gress are having the same experience.
There was a time when they could
present to the house a mass of al
legged facts prepared for them by the
sugar lobbyists and no one would
have the temerity to question their
accuracy.
1t is different now. Members of
congress have been studying tie su-
gar question and the majority is con-
vinced that We can produce sugar in
competition with the world and that
n practical demonstration of that fact
will result in a vast development of
the industry-particular in the west
a consequence when the orators of
the trust take the floor they become
the targets for volleys of questions
which they find 1t difficult to parry
and impossible to answer.
When one standpatter brazenly as
serted that the retail price of sugar
had not been reduced as a result of
the partial removal OF the tariff and
a score of members were ready to
contradict him and to point out that
the housewives OF the country were
receiving 20 and % pounds of sugar
ceived fourteen or fifteen pounds two
years ago.
Another trust man endeavored to
make. much of the fact that some su-
gar factories had been closed, but
he was silenced by the presentation
OF evidence that never In the history
of the industry had all the factories
been running in the same season
That reminds me that during the tar
iff fight a Denver paper gave much
prominence to a dispatch from Col
orado town stating that the Chamber
CT Commerce had adopted resolutions
declaring that free sugar would force
the local factory to close down. In
vestigation revealed the fact that the
factory in question had been closed
for three years!
Personally. do not believe public
sentiment will tolerate the restora-
tion Of the sugar tariff. The trust
will continue to bluff but with the
facts before them the people cannot
be deceived.
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