New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-10-29
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Sugar-Has anyone heard Mr..
Cox or Mr.. Hanna say-Sugar:
They both talk a lot. but not
about sugar.
Coz talks a lot about a $30,OOO.OOO.
imaginary campaign fund.
Hnni.a talks about a Sl,OOO'OUO i'm
aginary yearly contribution IRON
he rIin.ng corporations. About
extravaganza and waste and the
bosses. q,
Put net a word about sugar and
the S9O.,f 0OO00 that the American
people lave paid during the IA.
wear in excess of reasonable prices
for sugar. ..r
Here is the reason they keep still
about sugar; Thirteen months ago,
the entire Cuban sugar crop was
offered to America for six and one
hall cents a pound for the raw pro-
duct, which would have meant
about nine cents to the consumers.
The offer was made through the
Cuban government to the govern
ment of the United States.
President Wilson referred the
question to his legal adviser, Attor-
ney General Palmer.
In due time Mr.. Palmer said No,
it is not necessary to buy the ~uDan
crop at even six cents. lie SAID
he had just asked for and had been
granted an appropriation OF Si,Vo,-
GOO with which he would bring down
all prices, g prices with the rest,
and so it was not necessary to buy
at six and one-half cents. q,
The president took his advice and
the sugar was not taken. The Gu
bans in despair wei their big crop,
and not knowing how to finance It
turned it over to syndicates which
aid the underwriting that the WI
son administration had refused 70
do. The syndicates then made up
their minds to make the American
people pay for the Wilson-Palinel
administration folly-and they have
paid for it!
Aud Mr.. Palmer helped the syndi
Gates out by making an eNtraordi-
nary ruling in the Louisiana sugar
planters case. They said they had
a small crop and ought 10 have
more for it. They asked Tor sew
enteen and eighteen cents per
pound, dpending on grade. Their
attorney pleaded before Mr.. Palmer
and Mr.. Palmer told them that II
they charged seventeen or eighteen
cents, he would guarantee them
against prosecution for p~rofiteering
wheat, corn and beans, were KEEP
down, but planters sugar was not.
The Louisiana price became the
basic for the Cuban crop which had
been Offered for six and one-hali
cents a pound.
Because there was a shortage IN
Louisiana, to help them out, all sug-
ar prices were boosted. For the
s~yndicates, it was jus. like going to
a picnic.
What did they do to keep sugar
prices down? Mr., Palmer did not
prosecute the syndicates. No, in
deed, but his sleuths and prosecutors
here and there arrested a corner
groceryman for making more than
The allowed profit!
They said in excuse OF the high
prices, that there was a shortage,
but that was not true. There was
plenty OF sugar all the time-and the
warehouses are still loaded up. but
a new crop coming on the syndi-
cafes nave dt last iOAt Soiii'i VI
the situation sugar has been pour
ing into America from all directions
and that is why sugar Is coming
down.
But in the mean time, they made
S900.000,0W in profits in excess OF
reasonable ones, Why should
they care!
And that is why Mr.. Cox and Mr..
Hanna do not mention s~ugar-they
would rather make a noise like i'm
aginary campaign funds, to keep
the people from thinking OF thirty
times thirty millions out OF which
they were mulcted on sugar.
We don't blame them for throwing
up a smoke screen and talking about
imaginary things. Besides to ex
plain would put them on the defen-
sive and that does not appeal to
either Cox or Hanna. We don't
blame them for not saying anything
about a disagreeable subject like
sugar!
But are the people going to be gul-
lihle enough - to see through the
democratic smoke screen-not only
as to sugar but on man other
things?
Vote for Harding and Mechem