Show I I CUBAN RAW SUGAR It Has No Claim to Admission Into This Country At this time when it 5s developing that much of our own country whlch was becoming bankrupt through lnck of a profitable agricultural crop can be saved and put on a firm finanela basis by the raising of sugar and when it Is demonstrated that the broad acres oC the Great American desert are preeminently adapted to the raining of I I sugar beets it Is lime lhat thinking people look squarely al the situation Many have been the suggestions to accomplish this very relief and l now that the energy and courage of a few men have demonstrated and proved the remedy they are met by the afiiimcd determination of the trust strangle Ihelr efforts before they develop further fur-ther gelFor For many years the Nollh has shut Its eyes to the fact that through mls inform tlon Congress has lent itself to the supporting of a single trust company com-pany as against the Interests of a large section of the Union namely the cune producllng Stales Now selfInterest find the widening of the sugar belt brings pointedly to view tie extent of the evil rought by this trust and their emissaries The piotectlon of American sugar whether beet or cane by a duty on the I foreign Importation differs from the general policy of protecting our home Industries in two respects only First That It Is the one tariff which now protects tho agricultural Interests of the whole country both North and South SecondThat it Is made absolutely operative by I the unusual advanlnges orrel eel by other nations to their own armors and manufacturers by paying them a bounty In addition to the normal nor-mal price of the article produced In order or-der lint they may export it to this country and undersell our home pro due t ion A FALSE CLASSIFICATION To attempt to call ibis OG per cent sugar which we receive a raw material terial II and give It I especially favorable rating as such In order that It may be refined In this counlry Is the most transparent fabrication The sugar < nl 96 per cent pure has rcceKeQ fully DOer DO-er cent of the labor required lo prepare It for consumption It has received all the labor which Is performed by the I farmer the artisan and the day labor er and 90 per cent of all the fuel textile fabrics chemicals and barrels or sacks required and all the agricultural Implements im-plements employed Every expenditure which calls for the employment of our own people or the enrichment of our own Industries has been spent upon this sugar before it comes to the re finery The only process necessary to repare it for the consumer after It is received here is one single filtcration through bone back filters This Is accomplished ac-complished by one larg monopoly and at the pxpcnse of rcmcltinpr the sugar and after filtering rebelling It into a crystal That this one Alteration would have been accomplished much easier arid cheaper if it had been clone before lie syrups were first crystallized Is I clfevldent Yet this single process Is the only difference between what the refiners are pleased to call raw sugar and the article ready t < Jr the table Canny Can-ny one be so deceived as lo admit this sugar as raw materlaj or give a special duly on It asraw material under such a flimsy pretext of its being manufactured in this country Jlr iVYft IT IS SENT The foreign factories which ship this ocalled raw sugar to our country end It in this state simply becausd the false basis has been established by the labors and representations of one corporation oration and It has been done solely that they may handle at a profit all of he sugar consumed by a great nation In order to lake advantage of this raw material rate of duty they merely stop I i little short of finishing the process of sugarmakinG and leave the last filtering filter-Ing process to be done on a large scale alter it arrives Every sugarmaker knows that it would have been done both cheaper and better when the iyrups were going through the factory the first time It is the greatest parody on the use of the raw material clause oC the tariff act of any yet perpetrated I and Is only allowed because required by the might and will of an enormoufl aggregation of capital known as the American Sugar Refining company Is It possible that Congress can be blind to the fact that it Is being made a party to legislation in favor of one cor joralion under false colors and false reasoning and a false supposition to throw the entire handling of one of our heaviest articles of staple merchandise I absolutely Into its hands The article Itself has gone through all the processes requiring any considerable amount of labor and expenditure for materials In foreign countries and entirely for foreign for-eign benefit as against our qwn farmIng farm-Ing class and our own labor and interests in-terests A FALSE CRY The cry Just raised by the sugar trust that they will produce sugar cheap for the people Is farfetched and so opposed op-posed to all their history and antcce dents as to require no refutation Did any trust in the history of our country ever lower its price when It had succeeded suc-ceeded in strangling competition Yet this Is what Is aimed at and what they arc asking Congress lo assist them In accomplishing Germany France and Russia see so clearly the benefit to their large farmIng farm-Ing class and to the mechanics am pioduccrs of farming Implements and manufacluers of fabrics for filter cloth and the manufaciurers of chemicals sugar su-gar sacks and barrel and to their collieries col-lieries and a hundred other industries that they place an internal tax on tho sale of sugar within their own bounds and use the Income so derived to pay the home factories a bounty Thus they produce more than IB consumed at home and ship it to America under the guise of raw material receiving L cents a pound bounty on all such sugar which Is exported so that they may surely undersell any which we can produce pro-duce with our labor well paid and the farmer paid a fair price for his crop < Yet Congress is asked to perpetuate this for the enrichment of foreign countries and of the one home incorporation and to send all this money abroad at the expense of retarding our own Industrie ond our own farms As for Cuba It 1 Is merely a question as to whether w owe assistance to them to the < dutrlmen of our own people III the same vocations voca-tions and their advancement by the retarding re-tarding of our own agriculture and In dustjIes and whether we wish to open a foreign field for speculators by de straying a new and promising horn manufacture THE GERMAN IDEA At the opening of the Rolchsfas In 1 Berlin December flrd Chancellor von Buelow Introduced the tariff bill as follows Tho Federal Governments are firmly resolved to pursue a policy with the com m rclal treaties of tho country In 1 the In crest of Gorman Industries while QC cOurse upholding tho just rights of Ger manv Iho now tariff offors a basis affordIng afford-Ing good protection to agriculture Industry Indus-try and trade Tho Kmporor has approved a bill which Is thin result of several years of comprc hcnslvo and careful labor which is the outcome and requirement of German economic life and which Intended by giving so fnr ns possible equal consltl ration to all Interesis to flied Jbov nil tho wish for Increased protection inanlfentoil by the ngricuituurIs tho Jus I tlco of which within the limits prescribed by duo regardfor tho common weal cannot can-not bo dispute In any ease tho Fee oral Government lisis firmly resolved In I tho Interests of Gorman uxjiort trade to pursue this policy In the future as In the past and to decldo according tp our own judgment upon tho limits of what wo can Jrallt wIthout abandoning vital German interests In n view of lhJ luighi Importance of agrl cUlture for time nations power mid sits Itiatico It should be afforded every mea Ufoaf protection compatible with the con lllqns of our general economic life Ger many la both IIn Industrial and usrdrlnn state MI mId wo niUst havo regard for the millions of hands employed In the fiu tories and In name With such a ntatement as this and ninnntlng from ouch a source at the opening of the German Reichsiag thaIc can be ito doubt whatever ns to the position of Germany In this regard nor as to the careful study which has led them up to this point in the prolcc lon of their home Industries and above all tho protection of their sugar pro ucors With this In view It does not seem osslblo I lhat If the eyes of Congrcas men are open to the true facts they can all to make their protests clear and cclded for the protection of our own eoplc n an Industry so farreaching lIS that of manufacturing our own sugar and their voices should l be heard In its behalf with no uncertain tone Ml tariff on sugar should apply alike on the finished and unfinished sugars each being a manufactured article and the glaring fallacy of calling any sugar raw material should be forever tamped with the brand of deception oily variation as between the two being lade to create a larger profit for the one corporation and for that only CHARLES N COX |