Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-08-01

8. The assurance by President-elect
Wilson that honest business had moth.
ing TO fear from his administration
The telegraphic correspondence re-
ferred to by Mr. Pharr was as follows ::
New Orleans, La. Oct 5, 1912.
/ Hon. Woodrow Wilson,
| Democratic Nominee for President
| of the United States (care of Hon.
William Jennings Bryan, Lincoln,
| Neb.):
The last Democratic house passed
the Underwood free-sugar bill The
Democratic platform for 1912 approx
ed the legislation of the Democratic
house at its last session. The Demo
cratic campaign book for 1912 ad-
yances extended arguments in favor
of free sugar notwithstanding these
/ facts, sugar men in Louisiana are be-
ing assured that you will not advo-
cate the Underwood free-sugar bill, If
elected president, but will be guided
by the fourth paragraph of the Demo
cratic platform on the tariff question,
which promises downward revision
that will not injure or destroy legiti-
mate industry. The Republican cam
paign opens in Louisiana on the 10th
instant We do not wish to misrepre-
sent your position. May / ask If you
are in favor Il the Underwood free
sugar bill or n6t? not, what duty
ON sugar will yousa9yocate If elected
president? We viii publish your ans
wer in full with this telegram.
&C. s. HEBERT,
Chairman Republican State Cen
trail Committees
President wilson's answer was as
| follows: %
I "Phillipsburg, Kans., Oct. 6. 1912
&C. s. Hebert,
Chairman Republican State Central
Committee, New Orleans, La:
Your lettergram October receiv.
ed. Ny position on The question men,
toned was stated ins my speech Of ac-
ceptance.
"WooDRbW WILSON"
| In the light of this correspondence,
the letter of acceptance will be stud
led in vain for the slightest intima-
tion of the cruel destruction that
awaited the Louisiana sugar industry
when Mr.. Wilson and his friends came
to revise the tariff.
Last year 647,606 acres were
planted with sugar beets in the Unit
ed States. This season 513,201 acres
have been planted This is a de-
crease of 134,305 acres, due to the
closing down of IL beet sugar factor
les in different parts of the United
States. s> =. H.. ..
The contracts between the factor
les and the beet growers in the State
of Michigan have been so changed as
to reduce the price per ton paid for
beets to the farmers an average of SO
cents. AS the average yield OF beets
in Michigan is about 10 tons per acre,
this means an average reduction in
the farmers income ofe SIS per acre.
A farmer growing Is tons per acre, of
course, will lose $3.50 per acre on his
beet crop this year as compared with
last year. IS s: ~.
Fhe airesstun niay96e asked, why the
domestic beet and cane sugar indus
try cannot thrive, or even exist, with
out tariff protection against foreign
competition. A few of the facts in the
case show most clearly a reason that
cannot be disputed. It has been
shown that the beet-sugar factories
in the United States in 1910 paid from
Sc to $3.50 per ton for beets delivered
at the factory and in the State OF
Michigan the factories that year paid
$691 per ton for beets delivered at
the factories (see Hardwick hearings,
p. TIL, while it was developed at the
Hardwick hearings that the farmers
in France received an average price
for their beets from 1902 to 1911, in.
elusive, of $4.95 per ton of 1000
pounds; and in Germany, for the same
period of time, the farmers received
$4.45 per ton; and 1t was further de-
yeloped by the investigations of that
committee that the French and Ger
man beets averaged about 2h per
cent more sugar in the beets than Is
obtained from beets In the United
States And, again, the purity Is
greater in German and French beets
than in the United States and yields
about 80 pounds of sugar per ton OF
beets more than Is extracted from
beets in this country showing the
same test or percentage OF saccharine'
which is caused by the superior puri-
ty of sugar In the beets. And, again,
the wages of the men, women and
children in the beet fields in France
and Germany were shown to be about
40 per cent of the wages paid to the
same class of labor in the beet fields
in the United States.
1t was shown by that investigation
that the cost of production of granu.
lated sugar from beets in the United
States was 1885 per 100 pounds,
while the cost of production OF brown
sugar from cane In the southern states
was $3.75 per 100 pounds. The cost
of refining this brown sugar ranges
from 40 to SO cents per 100 pounds |
and makes total cost for refined
sugar produced in the southern states
of Az cents per pound, while, on the
other hand, Cuban raw sugar, S6 de-
greenwich is a light-brown sugar
is sold +. o. b. Habana for about
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