Show THE FREETRADE RAID ON SUGAR The Democratic party Is practically committed to the sugar trust The great effort of that trust Just now Is to get Cubas raw sugar admitted free of duty so that the refiners will have a monopoly and can fix the price to suit themselves rho sugartrust magnates have large augur plantations In Cuba by recent purchase and option and arc prepared to take options on practically all the sugar plantations In Cuba If they could get their Cubanraised sugar in free of duty of course that would give them all they want They would first devote themselves to the task of crushing out all sugar making in America except their own and then they would fix the price and bold the market of the greatest sugarusing Country in the world In aid of this plan Representative McClellan presented pre-sented In the Democratic caucus on Saturday the proposition that having done so much for Cuba we are bound to do more that we arc bound by and every consideration of Justice generosity loallowhcr the largest practical liberty of commercial intercourse inter-course with our own country Ordinary Ordi-nary common sense however would be that having done so much for Cuba we should t be called upon to do more but that she should now begin to lookOut look-out for herself It will be Interesting to see whether Senator Rawlins will J agree to Cuban free sugar after what 1 he has said Tn line with the same freetrade I sentiment and with the false plea of McClcllans resolution the New York I Evening Post has this plea which Is I childlike and bland The case is I I really simplicity Itself Hero wo have at our doors an almost inexhaustible source the cheapest and best sugar I In the world Americans are already tho greatest sugarconsumers on earth Why should they think themselves compelled to pay an extra and needless need-less cent and a half a pound for this necessity of life Sur enough but what of our sugarproducers What of the men who have Invested their millions In beetsugar factories What of the thousands of farmers who are Just realizing the grand opportunity oppor-tunity they have to raise a cash crop and add an Industry to the wealth of this Nation that wll1be worth a hundred millions a year to us Are our own people entitled to no consideration con-sideration Why this constant plea for the foreigner What permanent good will it do us to build up great Industries In-dustries in other lands This whole talk of Cuban free sugar Is simply to help the Havemeyer trust and to cripple crip-ple or stamp out what is getting to be a vast development of sugar production produc-tion in the United States Besldps the centandahalf a pound saving Is a total fallacy the sugar trust would sec to it that there would be no saving to the people what cash could bo saved would be devoted to sugarstock dividends |