New Iberia enterprise and independent observer., 1916-09-02

the square deal would prevail III
every direction and that the S,lral
planters of Louisiana should not
be afraid.
The assurances that were de
sired by the sugar planters Of
Louisiana and by the LEGISLATORS
OF the state, as expressed in the
statute. was that any corporation
dong business IN refining SuoarS
in Louisiana should pay for such
sugars the same price that they
were paving in New York AT the
same time for goods of similar or
equal value. How difficult this is
can be recalled when We read the
evidences in the testimony taken
before the lIardwirk and other
committees in WASHINGTON of the
methods adopted by the Amcri-
can Sugar Refining Co., to secure
washed sales from one refinery to
another in order TO secure low
quotations with which to place
values on sugars just arriving in
\cw Orleans from the plantations,
and when we learn of sugars ar
irving in the port Of New York
from Hawaii, what hurry and
sculry there has been at times to
secure low quotations with which
to establish the values Of these
sugars on arrival, so we can see
that the smiles and pleasant atti-
tudcs Of Mr.. Babst count for lit
tie and his final answer. expressed
a few days ago in a telegram to
Mayor Bchrman, that they did
not propose to close the ChaI- ,
mettc plant and that they in
tended to purchase raw sugars
in the New Orleans market open
ly and freely on the same base as
competing rcfincrics, simply con
firms all the charges that have
been made against the American
Sugar Refining Co.
This corporation stands charged
With having endeavorcd to dcs-
roy all competition by driving
buyers out of the mar
let. 1t stands charged with hav-
ng boycottcd those sugar rcceiv-
rs who have been willing to sell /
o other ,efiners than to the
american Sugar Refining Co. and {
0 indicate to these recalitrants &
he cause Of such boycotting. I
1t is true that the American S
'ugar Refining Co. may discon- J
inue the policy it has pursued in t
he past, but it does not say so in Il
0 many words. This means any !
hing. 1t means that they will
NY sugars when it suits them
nd they will not buy them when
does not suit them and that
1ey will proceed in defiance Of
ne statutes of the state as to the G.
imitation Of price based upon the c
rice in other states. is
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On the other hand, one Of the Il
reatest safeguards to the sugar ia
lanters of Louisiana is exactly II
lat safeguard which has been Il
tilted by the sugar planters Of 81
le island of Java and utilized by m
le sugar planters of the island el
Mamitius and in fact, utilized r
= all Of the American beet sugar di
'oducers. They have produced OF
hite sugars and have thus rem. te
red it unnecessary that their st
'oduce should pay tribute to the &c
tie coteric of American sugar bt
finers who insist that their linn W
I'd washing and filtering ex- to
nse. amounting to half cent in
r pound. should give them the III
,nopolistic control of practical
all the sugars Of the world. Di
le data coming from the sugar "
anters Of this state shows how en-
Intensely the manufacture of I'll
ocerv STYLES Of sugar has in 'th
,ased during the last two years. 70
lere are more grocery styles of to
CARS available in Louisiana to- tn
y. or for the coming crop, than an
re evef produced before the tn
I'll war, although at that time a
Dcerv STYLES included all grades pr
sugar. from common brown to er
re white. This method Of CIR de
the intentions and str
thods Of the Sugar Trust is an of
inentlv proper method Of de- du
lse and we should say that no tn
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