The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1920-01-03
Mr.. Parker And The Price
OF Sugar.

If there is class Of agricultural
producers in America that know more
about the product they produce and
the market where it is sold, than the
cane grower. we have failed to find
it out: and for Stubs orators to
come into the sugar section and at
tempt to show that L. S. District At
toney Mooney secured a big price for
sugar. it is an insult to their intelli-
gence.
Jim Wilkinson in speech at Jean
erette. had the unmitigated crust to
say that Mooney is the man that got
IL cents for sugar. This was SO very
absurd that the most ignorant plow
boy felt that he was insulted. Moon
ey said: IF the sugar planters do
not ask more than II cents for sugar.
will not put them in Jail for profit
eering." This is what Jim Wilkinson
and the Stubs crowd are feeding the
cane grower on. but in North Louis
lana, the same crowd are accusing Mr..
Parker of raising the price of sugar
on them.
Every cane grower in Loui siana
knows that the price of sugar-crop of
l9l6-l97 and part Of 1918 was fixed
arbitrarily by the government; that
a committee of sugar planters were i'll
Washington for the purpose Of get
ting the best price possible; that
low price had been arbitrarily fixed
~ Mr.. Rolfe and Mr. Hoover; that
the Louisiana committee had exhaust
ed every means to have the price in
creased but failed; that John M. Par
ker went to Washington and demand
ed better price and got it. This
price which Mr. Parker secured gave
the cane grower IS cents a ton more
for Cine that the sugar committee
THEIR SUGAR CANE instead Of
$3.50 FOR THEIR CANE. THIS
is WHAT PARKER DID FOR
THE CANE GROWERS Of Lou
isiana In North Louisiana, the
Stubs crowd use this as an argu-
ment against Mr. Parker. in the SUI
gar section they say Parker did not
help the sugar planter. This hypo-
cricy and Misrepresentation is dis
gushing.
Sugar is now selling for II cents |
because Europe has no beet sugar, and |
the cane sugar of America is the |
only sugar on the market. Sugar is
SO scarce, and the price is So high, |
that it is accessory for the govern
nnent to practically fix the price to
Keep IT from selling for 50 cents |
pound. Mr.. Parker, Col Stubs or no
one else has any more to do with the
price of sugar now than the man in |
The moon. and it IS disgusting and in
sulting for the Stubbs crowd to be
'hypocritical enough to use it in any
phase as an argument against Mr..
Parker.
The only time that it was possible
for any one man to help the sugar i'm
dnstry was when Mr.. Parker went to
Washington and rendered his resie-
nation to Mr.. Hoover unless the sug-
sr people got square deal, and which
time the sugar people did get square
deal Every member of the Louisiana
sugar committee said that John M.
Parker is the man who got the price
increased. A few weeks before Sem
atof Bfoussard died he gave Mr.. Par
lker full credit FOR getting the addi-
tional IS cents for each ton Of cane
raised in Louisiana.
With these facts before the public
the Stubs crowd ought to be
ashamed to try any further misrepre-
sentation for the purpose of fooling
the cane grwers into voting for
Stubs, man in whom they have not
the slightest interest and for whom
they have not the slightest sympathy.
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