Show i THE SUGAR facts about the taxes on sugar were fully stated in congress and will be interesting to most The first fact that should be is one not found in the Congressional It is The American Sugar Refining company has not hesitated to use campaign money for Democrats or Republicans just as the occasion Senator Aldrich never failed to corral enough Democrats when he needed them to put through his Dutch Standard The records of the tariff congresses for the last twenty-five years shows that the sugar interests can always get enough votes to have their Senator Foster of Louisiana advocating a duty on sugar two years ago made a forceful Those who heard him but did not know him may have taken him for a Republican of the most extreme He said that sugar had carried a duty ever since July when the tariff on raw sugar was 1 cent a pound on partially refined sugar cents and fully refined 3 At that he none was raised in the United In 1790 the duties were increased from 1 to from to and 3 to Four years later the last figure as increased to Prom 1797 to 1804 raw sugar carried cents and or refined 9 cents per This was prior to the Louisiana In 1812 the duties were increased per M raw sugar bore a duty of 3 refined P sugar 10 and loaf sugar In 1832 the and 3 rates were 2 for raw sugar r refined This schedule was maintained until Tl Walker tariff of 1846 put an ad valorem duty of P cent on Eleven years later this was re-j 71 10 24 per i time sugar retailed in this country at 5 cents 1 i 1 V A claim made by the of an article Uh IT its e that i years of hi tariffs retails at per sack of inn more el than il did Placed a dul the high r T K- 12 and 5 cents all Z 18 time that the Dut P SUCh an in tariff T in yearS' made its uty n raW was left at but all 1 sugar above 15 to 20 carried a duty of and above that 4 cents From 7 to 10 sugar was fixed at 10 to at 13 to at 2 16 to at and al above at Under the McKinley act raw sugar was free for the first and only Foster and the law did not live There was a duty on all sugar above 16 Dutch One-tenth of a cent a pound was added on all sugar from bounty paying Under the Wilson act all sugars under 16 carried an ad valorem duty of 40 per cent and all one-eighth of one per or cents per pounds in The Dingley law provided a duty of for sugar of 96 degree with 3 cents per pounds on every additional degree to and a differential of 12 Foster in favor of a difference in the duty on raw and refined He said that every save the Walker had made a states of Nevada and Louisiana have sugar |