Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1922-09-08
G. 0. P. TARIFF
HAS INCREASED
SUGAR. PRICES
SPECIALLY FAVORED INTERESTS
TO BE FAVORED, AS USUAL,
WITH REPUBLICANS, AT
EXPENSE OF THE MASSES
DEMOCRATS OPPOSE 1T
Thompson, A Harding Candidate For
Governor OF Ohio, Pollcd Only
40 Per Cont. OF The Primary
Vote, Final Returns Show,
BY WALLACE sAssFoRp
Especial News Correspondent

| . 'S'A'"S'ohi ~. VI mo senate, by
us action OH sugar, has definitely
raised the cost of all sugar to Amorl-
can consumers by about two cents per
pound. Hero are the basic facts about
sugar: The United States reflneries
receive and refine for domestic con.
sumption about Az million tons of
raw sugar In year. About million
tons OF this are produced in the United
States proper: about 1 million other
tons como to us from our island hold.
ings-Hawait, Porto Rico and the
philippines, Tho other 2a millions
como from Cuba. 1t Is alleged that
Senator Smoot, representing both tho
peot sugar people and tho Republican
majority In tho Senate, proposed TO
tho Cuban sugar growers that tho I'm.
| port tariff ON their raw sugar would
DO held down to 2 cents II they would
agree TO limit sugar shipments TO the
United States to az Millions of tons
per annum. Tho OBJECT would bo to
give this country just barely enough
] for Its moods, thus enabling tho sugar
refnors to got better price for their
product and to moro closely control
the price. In other words, sugar would
never BIO plentiful, and In tho coursn OF
a few years, or at any timo there should
happen to lie short crop horo at
home. our supply would not 10 sum.
Client for our needs. owing to the
stcndily increasing population. Tho g
cent tariff means that tho consuming
public will pay ono hundred millions
per year into tho Tronsury M tux on
tho sugar coming In from Cuba; that
Is not 80 bad. In way, us 1t helps
pay tho enormous bills OF tho govern
ment, hut this tux puts up wall of
protection for the benefit OF tho sugar
growers here ut home IN Hawaii,
Porto Rico and tho Philippines, on.
abling them to change two cents moro
per pound for their raw sugar. This
takes eighty millions additional from
the products of tho sugar-users and
places 1t In tho pockets OF the sugar
growers. This Is typical OF the Repub.
lican position OH tho tariff; II Is to
asses the general public TO enrich spe.
cinl favored interests, which I'm turn
can no counted upon to pay n portion
OF their artificial gains into tho Repub.
llcan campaign chest In order to en-.
able this party OF tho few to continue
to exploit tho many. 1t Is the Same
old practice OF the despotic kings who
sold privileges to friends at court. All
Republican tariff bills revolve around
the manufacturing groups OF tho big
industrial centers. Tho Democratic
view Of the tariff is that It should pro
duce revenue to run tho government.
economically administered, whilo lay.
Ing the lightest possible burden on tho
consumer. or course, any tarifr ia
bound to carry with 1t some incidental
protection to tho American manufac.
| turer.
An unrestrained whoop of victory Is
heard from tho vicinity of tho White
House over tho fact that Carmi
Thompson, supposed to represent those
feeble wabblings grouped ms tho
Harding policies" won the nomination
| for Governor Of Ohio over the opposl-
ton, divided among the candidates. OF
eight men. II is we'll that the whoop
came before the facts and figures,
which show that Thompson. carrying
the load of Harding policies" plus
Harding unpopularity, In spite of his
own personal following. which is
large, polled only about forty per cont.
OF the vote cast In the primary. II
forty per cent. satisfies Harding and
makes the clan happy, then take 1t
and welcome, Ia tho attitude of the
the Republican Party is In tho bone
yard. But the cold truth is that
Thompson won through by the fact
that he is personally the most popular
Republican in Ohio and was gotten
! into the race for Governor III the hopo
that he could pull or Doc Fess
through for Senator and save the face
same time by keeping the State In the
] Republican column this foll. It is re-
1 mindful of an irreverent epitaph from
tombstone up In New England
which runs like this:
Here lies the body OF Mary Ann,
Safe in the bosom OF Abraham;
It's mighty nice for Mary Ann,
But pretty tough on Abraham.
And so It seems pretty tough on
Abraham Thompson to have to bear
! the political sins of Mary Ann Tess,
all the little Fesses now on the House
payroll, and the unpopular Harding
policies" from now until snowfall.
| Incidentally, 1t comes to Washington
from some OF the best sources In Ohio
| that the Fess family will fail to trans.
fer from tho House payroll to that Of
the Senate, due largely to the fact that
Fess can't hold his own party vote.
REPUBLICAN ECONOMY"
i (Ohio State Journal (Rep.))
Well, we see we Republicans have
already cut down the number of gov
eminent employees frozen 438,O57 at
tho end of the last fiscal year before