Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-10-11

mot only respondent. they are indig
lnanC They feel that they nave ..egi
iduped by the refiners and without eA
Iception they now want the domestic
sugar industry developed to q point
where their supplies OF sugar win not
be imperiled by oTtstae influences hks
the present European war.
Senator Ollie James Of kentucky
Wants Free Sugar.
Against this almost universal sen
timeRt for a suspension Of the free
sugar clause, heard hut one discard
ant note during the entire trip. The
morning reached Washington the
Post ofsthat city carried an interview
with Senator James OF Kentucky, who
made the trip to Hawaii with the
Congressional party, in which he was
quoted as saying, 4 "a, =
Hawaii is exceedingly prosperous.
and II am more than ever convinced
from what saw that tariff on sugar
10 not needed. The Hawafiaf1s are get
ting s95 ton for sugar and In many
instances the yield Is rs much as nine
tons to the acre. Under such condi-
tons the Hawaiian farmers. even
with free sugar, prosper many times
more abnndantly than our farmers in
Kentucky and other states, and ! see
no reason why the millions of sugar
consumers In this country should be
forced 10 pay a tar that Is not in the
least needed. E gp ! -. !
This announcement by the Ken
lucky senator naturally caused wide
spread comment In Washington. 1t
was cited by nearly everyone I met
as soon as they learned of my connec'
ton with the Louisiana sugar indus
try. Many of them referred to the
fact that Senator James brother
in-law, Congressman Thomas, OF
Kentucky, who also was o member of
the Congressional party which made
the Hawaiian trip, had similarly de-
liyefed himself upon his return to
Washington q few weeks previous.
The reiteration OF these sentiments by
Senator James was therefore general.
" accepted I'm Washington as nm In
dicatjon that powerful Kentucky In.
terests could be counted upon to keep
up the fight for free sugar IN the next
Congress. s351 II q
coneressnan Thomas Of Kentucky,
Also Wants Free Sugar. ~
with the sentiments OF Congress-
man Thomas on this question, I think
I can frankly state that the Louisiana
sugar interests have no quarrel There
has been q continuous policy Of 0ppo.
siti0fi to d tariff ON sugar BY the Ken.
lucky distilling interests ever since
the civil war. That opposition has
been counted upon; We look for il!
and expect III whenever the tariff 10
brought up for revision The cause
for this attitude & not hard to "a.
thom. They argue that IL the enor.s
nous revenue which the government
receives from sugar Is removed Con-
eress viii be compelled to turn TO the
revenue derived from the sale Of dis
TILED spirits and beer to make up the
deficit in the United States treasury.
They would make collections through
the Internal revenue agents rather
than at the custom houses. That has
long been q recognized policy or the
Kentucky school of Democrats, 90 we
take no offense al the opinions of
Congressman Thomas
But these public utterances by his
distinguished brother-in-law, Senator
Ollie James, cannot be treated IN the
same indufgert fashion. Senator
james was recognized as peculiarly
the agent Of the eastern refining in-
terests when the first Underwood Ia.
rim bills were being Formulated three
years ago. He was at that time a
member OF the house and one OF the
leading Democratic members OF the
ways and means committee that drew
up the so-called spop-gufi tariff bills.n
No better proof Of his influence could
be had than the fact that the two
schedules in which Kentucky was par.
ticularly interested whisky and to-
baceo--did not undergo one iota OF
change. The Underwood bill which
made sweeping reductions in the pro-
ducts Of other sections carried no ter.
rofs for Kentucky. -
The whisky distillers, the brewers
and the men who raised tobacco and
emphasized that fact by
night riding. never felt the heavy hand
OF the tariff bin that Senator James,
then congressman. worked 20 hard to
frame. 80,
James Special Champion u ths REIN.
ing Combine. - ST. D. /
I'm fact. his state Jared 50 well |
that the Seab0ard Sugar BeAners
decided = to confide their fight
against the American sugar farm.
ers largely 10 his hands. He led the
fight against the Louisiana sugar in.
terests on the floor OF the senate
and in his clash with Senator |
Ransdell exhausted his stock OF ridi-
cule and sarcasm to heIittle the lead.
ing industry Of this state, His par.
fisanship extended to the length aof |
having printed as Public documents
and circulated under his congressional |
frank the bitter assaults against the
domestic sugar producers which were
prepared nv Frank G. Lowry, the pub |
Rcity agent OF the reifners In their |
fight to DESTROY the domestic crop
and secure free foreign Sugar. n :
s "As / hare already said, I found on |