The Republican journal., 1914-07-09
:. w. Cowen on the Tariff.
california's Beet Sugar Industry Ruined by
the Democratic Tariff.

Maine as writer ana temper ohSo "
cate now a resident of Hynes, Calf,
has for some time been furnishing Sun
day letter to the Los Angeles Daily Irl-
bune, and in many of his articles has
criticised the Democratic free trade
tariff. His articles have been greatly
appreciated by many people in Southern
California, and following is letter OF
appreciation from one of his readers:
Editor The Tribune: want to tell
YOU how much | enjoy reading the ri
bunal part of your great paper IL IS
something wonderful and widely talked
about. especially those letters Of Charles
q. Locke and Frank W. Gowen. They
treat great public questions In a very
able manner, and these men ought TO
be taken up by the people and sent to
congress or to our legislature. The III
bune and Express are the most popular,
as we'll as the greatest, newspapers on
the Pacific coast and in the United States,
and | suppose that is the reason why the
Times and Examiner club them SO haro.
Keep right on standing up tor the rights
of the people and God will bless and
prosper your efforts. y. L.
Long Beach, Cal.
In this connection we give one of Mr..
Governs letters to the Tribune on the
tariff, as follows:
Editor The Tribune | notice that
Mr.. F. H. Allen in his reply to my recent
article in the Tribunal on the tariff ques-
ton states: 1.-The acreage to be planted
to beets this year will be greater, if any
laCt and the
pri, es will be in effect | also notice
another writer who signs his articles as
P, says: THE beet sugar factories IN
Southern California, instead of shutting
down as predicted by protectionlsts. pro-
pose to turn out more sugar this year
than ever before. Now, wish to say
that the statements of these gentlemen
touching the sugar beet industry OF Call
fornia are not authentic, and as proof OF
which | say | refer to the very recent IN
terview of Mr.. R. P. Davie in The Even
ing Express, who is vice president OF the
Western Sugar and Land Company OF
Colorado. Mr.. Davie said: ''Nine fac
tories will operate in the State this year.
Four expect to remain closed. At Al
varado. Hamilton, Corcoran and Visalla,
| understand, there will be no sugar
made. The reduction III acreage handled
by the factories opel ating will approx
mate 25 per cent and the average price
ton paid to the farmers will be Is cents
less than last year." Mr.. Davie also
states: The present year may not be
the last for some factories. The strong
er companies can hold out possibly an
other year, but do not believe that any
can survive free sugar. 50 we lnler
from the above statements OF this gentle
man, who is vice president OF this great
sugar and land company and ought to
know what he is talking about, that
after the one-cent- a-pound tariff protec-
ton to beet sugar manufacturers expires
in Nav, 1916, that on account OF the
Democratic free trade tariff law the
doors of all the sugar factories in the
United States may be closed up, and yet
this Mr.. Allen says my statements touch
ing the ruinous effect of the Democratic
tariff on the beet sugar industry are
absolutely false" and if ne could have
his wav no doubt would like to have the
editor of The Tribune confine my "stutf
to the waste basket. "On what meat hath
this gentleman fed that he is grown so
great?'
also notice that j. NJ. Jayne of Saw
telle. in referring to my recent Sunday
letter in the Tribunal, quotes Brad
streets and Dun's Review to show that
in the matter of steel and iron prces
that there is general tendency upward.
| am indeed glad to hear it, but in spite
of this fact there We're, per my state
ment at the time my letter was written,
1913 steel mills idle, which resulted IN
loss Of wages of 81, 600, 600 day to the
UNEMPLOYED in these mills, or OF sou, OU0.-
900 a month, or at the rate OF 9buJ. 0UU,-
900 year, and at that time there We're
27U. 900 miners out of work, and on
basis of loss of wages to them OF ST.
900 600 month. Take S62, 600 900 out
of the pay envelopes OF our working
people every month and what will be the
result? Suffering, starvation and death,
and charge, sir, that the free trade
Democratic tariff law has been the prin
cipaI cause of taking these millions out
of the pay envelope of the miners and
steel workers in our land. Sir John Mac
Donald once said in great speech III the
Canadian parliament: "Changes come
over nations and people in course OF
time" but our people should see to 1t in
the next national election that d poltl-
cal party is placed in power at Washing
ton which will provide by Legislation that
for all time to come there can be no
changes to low tariffs or free trade
theories in our government. In other
words. we should carry out the ideas of
jefferson, who, after seeing the folly of
free trade, became protectionlst anG
said: 1--WE should impose heavy tariff
duties on European nations or have broad
commercial reciprocity with foreign coun-
tries" In closing quote Max Ray, one
of the great experts in the world of
finance, as follows: Things are not
quite so booming in this country as some
people are representing
1t will be remembered by The Journal
readers that Mr.. Gowen in an able letter
to this paper urgirg the election OF Mr..
Peters to Congress in the special election
in this district predicted that if the Free
Trade Democratic tariff bill become
law that it would greatly injure and
finally ruin the sugar beet industry in
California. His prediction has become
true.