Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-05-06
BrouSSard In Congress EN-
phasizes Alleged MisState-
ments of F. c. Lowry

Hswaii's sugar planters are not tied
up with the raw sugar producers OF
the rest OF the United States in the
campaign against free sugar, accord
ing To Congressman Broussard of
louisiana
On the day OF Broussard's retire
ment as a member of the lower house.
March 4, 1915. he made a speech EN-.
phasizing some features of the free
sugar legislation and arguments
against it. His speech largely con-
cerned an attack made upon him by
F. c. Lowry, sales manager of the
Federal Sugar Refining Company. In
his spsNch in reply Broussard said in
part:
Mr.. Speaker, the members of this
house on yesterday received a circu-
lar letter sent out by the Federal
Lowry, its sales manager, in which the
following appeared: ..=>. 4
For political purposes Congress.
man Broussard recently stated:
Refiners told Congress. and Con-
gress believed the refiners, that IL the
sugar duties were reduced consumers
would receive advantage of the re-
ductiOn. On March Congress re-
duced the then-existing duties % per
cent, and for not a single moment
from that day to this has the consum.
er paid as little money for his sugar
as he did before the reduction
"Curiously enough, next day Gov.
Carter, of Hawaii, Congressman
Broussard's ally in the effort to retain
the high duties on sugar, more cor.
rectly stated the situation as follows:
In fact, the war in Europe has
made the last year the most phe-
nomenal year in the history of sugar
growers. In April, 1914, we got the
lowest price for sugar in 20 years
Il will not dignity this miserable
scribbler by directing the attention
OF the House to him further than to
recall that when he began to circu-
larize Congress as the mouthpiece of
the refiners, some years ago, he posed
and signed himself Secretary of the
Committee of Wholesale Grocers,
formed to assist in obtaining cheaper
sugar for consumers through reduc-
ton Of duties on raw and refined SUI
CARS
HE was afterwards compelled to
admit, under oath before an investi-
eating committee of this House, that
this committee had never held a meet.
ing, even Of two members; that not
even a penny of dues had ever been
paid into it by the alleged members;
that he had elected himself secretary
and treasurer; and that his employer
(Spreckels) had financed it by con-
tributing approximately SIC, 00oSto cir
culate the fraudulent and untruthful
literature with which he deluged Con.
gress and the country That piece of
deception was in keeping with the dis
honest practises that have always
been pursued by the Sugar Refining
Combine.
mr.. Speaker, resent this effort by
the Sugar Refining Trust to impugn
my motives on the eve of my depar-
ture from this House.
"At noon today / leave this body to
take my place at the other end of the
capitol, after eighteen years of serv.
ice spent within these walls.
But a handful of the present mem.
bership, yourself included, Mr.. Speak
er, has seen similar length of service,
but l believe those Of you with whom
have dedicated the best part of my
life here in the interest of my state
will bear witness that throughout
these years | have been making this
same fight for a principle.
In ii has been bound up the very
existence of my people. Two years
age upon this very issue the people
of my state in Democratic primary
selected me for senator as Demo
crat. A solid Democratic legislature
unanimously confirmed that decision
and elected me to the senate upon
| this issue, which is so vital to Louis
lana. .....-
I'm that contest / was opposed by
two of the ablest and most influential
men in my state.
"One OF them had been for ten years
member of this body and had Justly
attained national reputation for his
service as chairman OF the committee
on banking and currency.
1.-THE other had filed almost every
office in the gift of the people. He
had been elected successfully as mem.
Der Of the legislature, speaker of the
house, lieutenant governor, governor,
and United States senator for the
term which expires today.
1T has been matter of pride to
me, Mr.. Speaker, that in the eighteen
years / have been here fighting for
the principle which the Sugar Trust
now seeks to impugn, / have never
had an opponent within my own party
save in the first election and in the
last one after l had been elected to
the United States senate to take my
seat at the end Of the present con-
gress. ..
in this attack upon me the refining
interests say: s.-. =.
CAUTIOUSLY enough, the next day
Governor Carter of Eawaii. Congress
man Broussard's ally in the effort to
retain the high duties on sugar. more
correctly stated the situation
81 am proud to number such
splendid specimen of sturdy American