Show PROTECTION FURTHER A Chance for the People to Do Something About Here is another chapter in the record of the known as sugar Protected by a tariff of nearly two cents per the trust sells its sugar at per hundred in the Liverpool market in and at in the New York By the sack of pounds we pay just in London sugar retails an average of cents per or for when bought in small The sugar though enjoying this enormous of nearly two cents per pound on some seven billions of pounds of sugar annually sold America a clear gift yearly not satisfied with this much and so cheated the government out of in taxes on f. its raw sugar imported for The theft Avas one subordinate clerk of the trust Avas sent to jail for two and the trust officials got off by paying back a little more than of the nine millions their agents had stolen from Why they did not pay back the nine millions their admitted in has not yet been A New But another illustration of the actual working of the on refined sugar has just come to and customs experts from the treasury and special agents of the department of justice are making an The revelations promise to put the government in position to recover nearly as much as in the underweight more than paid into the v- When sugar is imported it pays a unless com- ing from the and it is manufactured into a product and in that form the duty j is refunded in the form of a except 1 per is retained to defray the cost of tariff t Under this arrangement sugar is imported exported as syrup and many other by-products of On each of these the treasury- makes About is paid in that Avay each and half that amount is back on exports of Officials say that frauds in sugar extending over several years could easily run into a large Some of the investigations are said to have r that the government has been defrauded in the f it has on It is charged that the refunds have been paid on high grades of sugar commanding high in fact a very grade of sugar Avas Under the system of the customs authorities are confronted Avith the probability that they may been paying on not sugar at but in have been as far as the usual inspection Evil of Indirect People do not that they are paying taxes on i because these taxes are indirect are included in the price paid for In Canada the farmers have found out and of them assembled in adopted this farmers of this country are A-illing to face direct taxation in such form as may be advisable to make up the revenue loss under neAv tariff The tariff the Canadian 10 JU trade free farmers seek include reciprocal Canada and the United States in farm fuel and and the J with Great moval of the preferential tariff of no of this program we know For our part and New tariffs between Canada which requires more than tariffs between New York and ld Governor Odell abolished direct for indirect ana unfelt taxation the state of New York result lne has been a swift growth in indirectly most ot tariff yields our government and thrives thereby extravagance trusts are The Utah State Board of Equalization reports tax laws in our own state are in a far worse condition than in New Direct taxation is the cheapest to pay because its payment is It is the most economical to expend because its use is jealously The Canadian farmers seem to be finding it Will Anything Be Done When the newly elected congress meets next December there will no doubt be something t But what will he done now about When the present congress met in extra session last year to reduce taxation it was controlled not by the millions who elected and trusted it but by the agents of attorneys of Instead of reducing tion it increased and it put the added load where it was keenly felt upon the cost of It fell into a colossal for which there can be no atonement except by reparation and An examination of this work schedule by schedule will show that although congress was largely Republican in both there never was an increased tax that did not have some and there never was a decreased tax that did not have some Republican Extortionate and indefensible as it is in many of its the Payne-Aldrich-Cannon tariff is shot through and through with Democratic as well as Republican greed and Will not the Progressive Republicans of Utah induce their senators and representative to do Or are the Republican voters willing that the Utah delegation shall continue to with Payne and Now is the time to Not a great deal is asked or expected at but there is a demend that in some even in a small attention be given to public In popular government there must be a response to the people's That will has been clearly It must not be As the World time is too short and no hour is too early to do The demand upon congress is Failure to act will not be excused by party for as there were no considerations of party in the perpetration of the wrong there need be none in its That paper says also that Senator is still a in to the the Wor World's d s exposure exposure of of his his financial silent in regard interest in the United States Rubber for whose benefit he increased the duty on manufactured rubber from 30 to 35 per can be construed only silence ag In his case COn But what must be thought of the attitude of congress in permitting its members to tax the country for the benefit of their own There will never be an honest revision of the tariff while are allowed to fix rubber schedules for their own while Guggenheims are allowed to metal schedules for their own while Scotts are allowed to fix glass schedules for their own while Cranes are allowed to fix paper schedules for their own while are allowed to fix lumber schedules for their own while Olivers are allowed to fix iron and steel schedules for their own It should be made a criminal offense for any member of congress to participate iu the making of a tariff schedule in which he lias a direct financial Are not the people of Utah willing to make progress on this question with the rest of the Surely they Then they should instruct their members of the state legislature now about to to petition congress for relief from the burdens of unjust citizen voter and private should now speak your |