The Glenwood post. (Glenwood Springs, Colo.) 1897-current, 1921-02-19
SUGAR KING PLANNED SPEECH
FOR FARMERS CONGRESS

A. E. Carlton, head of the Holly
Sugar corporation, with factories at
Delta and Grand Junction, was on the
program to deliver an address at the
farmers and stockmen g conference at
Montrose last week, but was unavoid-
ably detained. He has sent to Mr..
Moynihan, however, the address that he
would have made, which is as follows:
Much to my regret, immediate de-
mands upon my time prevent my anti
cipated attendance at the Montrose
meeting. There is great benefit to
be derived from meeting of this char
acter, as it gives the public the neces-
sary information of the best minds and
also brings the situation to the atten-
ton of the governmental authorities in
Washington.
We Americans are accused of being
temperamental; in fact, at times hyster-
ical. While it is true we do not possess
the stolid indifference of the British,
yet it appears to me we are graphing
with conditions which make hysteria
excusable, when we hear Of our navy
department calling for tenders Of 15,-
100000 pounds of beef, specifying Al
gentine meat preferred; when We heaf
of shiploads of Australian wool dump
ed Oh our shores, notwithstanding a
two years. supply of our own product
in our own warehouses;; when We hear
of millions of frozen carcasses of Aus
tralian lambs arriving monthly on our
shores and being on sale in Fort Collins
and Denver markets. When we sec our
railroads return to private ownership
burdened with working conditions and
shop rules which only a rich and reck-
less government could afford, we begin
to sense that large part of our trou-
bles are caused by an inefficient gov
ornamental bureaucracy in Washington.
When we see Cuban sugar selling at
So u bag below the cost Of our domes-
tie beet sugar, we know that our peo-
pie must be protected against the work
man of the semi-tropics, living on rice
and bananas and with little expense for
clothing; and this same Cuban sugar
ten months ago was selling for 25c per
pound because, under the withdrawing
section of the Lever bill, the food ad-
ministration had forced the best pro
ducers to sell their product at fixed
price. Not one person out OF thous
and knows that the prices of sugar
were exacted after the domestic prcduc-
tically out of the market. Our dones
tic beet and cane production is, round
I ly, a millions tens of sugar, or quar-
ter of our yearly requirements, and the
industry must be protected unless we
are willing to place the United States
in a position where they will be at the
mercy of foreign-grown cane.
/ wonder if the man on the street
knows that for every ton of beets
sliced there is factory investment OF
500, with $40 additional for necessary
materials and supplies. This does moi
include the necessary borrowings, run
ming into millions of dollars, during the
campaign.
Apparently, then, the situation re
solves itself into protecting our domes
tic production by a tariff sufficiently
high to permit the successful conduc
Of our industries on basis of living
conditions as they exist here today
Opposed to such an idea are the con
suming class, such as the factory ant
railway employees, who, of course, de
sire cheap living. This means thu
bankruptcy Of our producers, the fac
tory employees and the railway worker
must know that their occupations ar
gone if their patron, the producer, can
not exist.
While all trades, particularly thos
we'll organized, are endeavoring to -
cure, and are securing, for their Nom
bers the highest possible wages, tho.
must appreciate It is economically uu
sound for one class Of labor to demand
and receive . wage out Of proportio,
to other crafts in productive industry
In the old days Of the Roman Empir,
the urban population became 20 ~
dueed that ths price Of foodstu6i
scared to the skies. Finally the cit,
dwsll9 saSsssd laws axiAg prices o.
farA prsdusts, hut uaAappily ~ result
was that the farmers al moved to til
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