The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-04-20
New Scion From Louisiana IN
Farewell TO House Ex-
plains Price Juggling
COMPLIMENT PAID
TO GEORGE R. CARTER
Cane Growers Champion Be-
Iieves All Producers VIII
Make United Stand


How the sugar fefnefs' trust wal
able to absorb an the profits incident
upon lowering Of the tariff, by which
the consumer has not been permitted
to benefit one penny's worth, was ex
planned by senator.eiect Bronssard Of
Louisiana in his farewell speech TO hi,
colleagues Of the house
The senator referred in terms Of
warm admiration to former Governor
George r. Carter Of Hawaii.
~ am proud" he said, "to number
such splendid specimen Of sturdy
American manhood among my personal
friends. y
AS reported in the latest issue Of
the Congressional Record, the speech
follows:
Broussard and Garter
Mr. Broussard. Mr.. Speaker the
members Of this house on yesterday 70.
ceived q circular iettor sent out by the
Federal Sugar Refining Company and
signed BY +. G. Lowry, its sales man.
ager, in which the following appeared;
For political purposes Congressman
Broussara recently stated.
Refners told congress-, and con.
gress believed the refners, that II the
sugar duties were reduced consumers
would reseive the advantage of the
reduction. On March congress re-
duced the then-existing duties twenty
Eve per cent, and for not single
moment from that day to this has the
consumer paid as little money for his
sugar as be did before the reduction. y
Cpriously enough, next day Governoi
Carter Of Hawaii, Congressman Brous,
sard 8 ally in the effort to retain the
high duties on sugar, more correctly
stated the situation as follows:
In fact, the war in Europe has
made the last year the most phenome-
nal year in the history Of sugar grow.
ers. In April, 19l4, we got the low.
est price for sugar i'm twenty years.
v viii not dignity this miserable
scribbler by directing the attention Of
the house to him further than TO recall
that when ne began TO circularize con-
gress as the mouthpiece Of the redners.
some years ago, he posed and signed
himself & Secretary LOT the commit
tee Of Wholesale groeers, formed to as
sist in obtaining cheaper sugar for CON
suniers through reduction Of duties on
raw and refined sugars.
Deluge OF Circulars
He was afterwards compelled to ad.
init, under oath before an investigat-
ing committee of this house, that this
committee had never held meeting,
even Of two members; that not even
a penny OF dues had ever been paid
into II by the alleged members; that
eshad elected himself secretary and
treasurer; and that his employer
(Spreckels) had financed It by con.
tributing approximately 100000 to cir.
culate the fraudulent and untruthful
literature with which he deluged CON
gress and the country.
When they began TO poison the pub
lie mind few years ago they caused
millions Of circulars to be sent not
only to the business men but to the
housewives Of the country, in which it
There is probably no article han
died by the Wholesale and retail gro
GERS on such a, small margin Of profit
as sugar, so that any reduction in the
tariff would immediately result in .
corresponding reduction in the price OF
sugar TO the consumer, who would thur
receive all the benefit from the reduced
rate. No objection can therefore be
made against reduction In the tariff
on sugar on the ground that the diff
ference in the tax on sugar would 20
TO the refners or the dealers hand
ling IL,
( fThe public benefits from cheaper
sugar would not end with reducing the
cost of that article TO the CONSUMER.
Under the present tariff the relatively
high cost OF sugar seriously burdens
our great fruit canning and preserving
Industries, and by increasing the cost
of these products limits their consump.
tion in this country and practically
prohibits expectation on large scale. =
Millions Deceived
They pasted their fraudulent state
ments, intended solely to deceive, upon
the head Of every barrel that left the
refinery and inserted in every pound
package Of sugar circular SAYING that
II the duty was removed the housewife
could secure that same sugar at saw
ing Of two cents a pound
Millions Of people were deceived. Al
great clamor arose throughout the
country for cheaper sugar. and while
the work Of revising the tariff was in
progress these refners sold their output
at a loss in order to further the decep-
tion. They knew they could make up
their losses later after congress had
tcen trapped. 4
This ID proven BY the course of this
identical Federal Sugar Refining Com
nanys II lost so much money during
its campaign for s'cbeap sugar. that
u was ccmpelled to skip the usual divi.
dend on its common stoekt and on
January 2 1914, It's president, Claus
a. Spreekels, Lowry's employer, issued
2 statement In which he explained the
suspersion Of the dividend by saving;
Spreekels' Durhcity
This Is due, to the fact that during
the past few months the margin be.
tween the cost OF raw sugar and the