Show Americans Build Pay Will 4-— J LAKE Could Lack Assured ? sM 1 SUGAR rrx 1 ' I ' ' TARI AND THE in Commodity : Add VW the ' ' - Billion of Burden to in People - States ‘ in Smoot " by out brought recent his ' Senate 1 industry -" sugar on are: ’ 4 - ’ J ' - ASSURANCE A AMERICAN consumptionof sugar annually of the XX is 4000000 tons or world's supply ’Productionunder the American flag is not quite one-half of American consumption' Almost 40 per-cent comes ’ ’ American ? - - bill A T the time thfi Democratic-tariff was the American consumers were XX passed purchasing their sugar more 'cheaply than it could be purchased in any Mother country in the world with the exception of Great - of Senator ’-f United facts Some N !- : r Quarter Demand American - i -r- r Will - to — Protection I for Year 1 Where fi-' of This Sugar for - ? Shows 191 4 Supply Entire -V Smoot OCTOBER Extra ' - Senator SUNDAY CTTTUTAH Enough That actories '"’v- ' SALT HERALD-REPUBLICAN THE Year from ’’ ' cheap-labor at 5 - ? Britain one-fifth ' price of ’all In the last decade with ‘theretail the exception' of food commodities had increased an per sugar average of 80 nearly cent The price of had sugar decreased per cent beet' sugar factories have closed their doors since the passageof the Democratictariff 'price reductiort Instead of the the promised reduction in duty by the amount of for ten weeks prior-to the outbreakof the in was Europe the retail price of sugar to of a cent higher than it for eight before the tariff reduction was weeks became effective During that time the profits of the sugar refineries were increased by about the same amount that the duty was decreased even the cent sugar rise of cents 3 pound a will in offering of have recent I I I Instead Cuba The the protection against productof foreign countries present tariff would mean 4J or continuously of passed entirely protection law which in a destroy home th© two Democrats 4 4 years productionof “ rnTT! recent for rate that $240000000 of pound advance of 3 cents a commodity alone one year a the more in the price of that sugar means American people are paying at than they have would paid the 6 v price totals' $20000000 in the annual bill Prices will remain high for a year after the close of the war before normal conditions f 1 Ten-American had sugar can return industry which represents’ at the Yet instead of former price its a have United States today might buyer in the world’s market tariff of stable conditionsbeen been an exporter of sugar proper encouragement and industry had given -war one-fifth o’ne-third to that assurance This was the argument of Senator Reed Smoot of Utah in the United States Senate when he opened the debate there on the Democratic measure to add $100000000 to the tax burdens of the American people under the guise of a “war tax” “It is claimed that the purchase by Great Britain of some 50000 tons in the New York market in of August bust forcedthe price of sugar sugar in this country up 2 cents a pound” said Senator Smoot “Mr President if the government had adopted a fixed and stable policy in regard to the domestic sugar industry if the men who have invested or who have investing their capital in the beet sugar industry could have been assured ten or twelve years ago that their investment was safe aud the low-wage that they would not be thrown into competitionwith product the tropics have sold Great Britain this 5b 000 of Europe and we could tons and much more without increasingthe domestic price of that com- i The and Mr party their slogan was They the been general reduction in living in this of a cost the through inancial Think Underwood financial a Democraticleaders in Congress out sugar as the one be commodity that should The singled food subjected absolute to free trade mattered not that at the time the was Democratic tariff bill passed the American consumers were purchasing their sugar cheaper than it could be purchased in other countryin the world any with the exception of Great Britain The fact that sugar constituted It per cent of of the necessities only food family modities sugar had 80 had sugar cent was sideration the the in of American last decade food com exception of all with the increased cent per the total 5 and that retail price the while averageof of an the price per decreased nearly in their con-of eliminated the sugar schedule of 6 tariff President sugar is the of will not dwell this law of on further sugar industry ten beet of striking a great blunder since have its price of sugar reduced by not to upon the the effect domestic than to American our factories doors closed say sugar their passage That the the consumer was th© 25 per cent the tariff rates is clearly in reduction authoritative statistics for as a matter of fact for ten weeks prior to the outbreakof the war In Europe when normal the sugar conditionsexisted in market th© retail price of sugar borne out from was by 1-5 to 1-3 of a profits this time the refineries had lame amount creased But the of sugar about th© increased that the duty was Air to de President especially direct the attention of the and of the country to the I ‘ Senate enormous burden which has been upon the American people througha combinationof events— the outbreakof war in Europe and foreign our dependence upon placed countries for supply a of one-fifth large which sugar the part of our constitutes world's produc tion on th© floor of this Senate'that some day there would be a great armed conflict with a resultant shortage in predicted 1 Europe of the tinent and of sugar which would be brought about in the world’s mar-’ by reason of much shortage be to encourageand protect the domestic sugar industry until kets -would A on that conthat our only hope the exorbitantly high sugar crop of" escaping price lands Air war deplorable a as exists President “forewarned today” In 2 safe and Owing to the war in Europe the wholesaleprice of sugarin the world has increased at least cents a pound since On our August L annual of 40(0006 tonsT this increased burden on the means an of American people $240000000 How long the present European 3 that consumption conflict will continue to forecast but it is impossible 500 tons can the be within ' tons Great sugar of market price pound enough have men tariff policy been ago forced sugar 2 if 620 their capital industry the ' to price to the consumer ‘A 'will de Nothing WEEK 11 w ir a in A Index cotton are produced in quantities for home 16 Contents -Page than paid we Atlas War export A 9 HE II When paper It is especiallyfor cease? by and foreign of stop and us world Every- To countries Subscriber think'a it Daily The Herald moment this to to Sunday Who and -Republican the off from of its find source same-predicament in Britain from finds herself the cent of she source her sugar derives from ' - OER Great present I Britain time to petitivefight for our results -that today in is engage sugar are with being mar-kets the same experienced an inordinateincrease —prices ’’ - u i your wait for the remittance y agricultural department A big a by mail call or call at the do it at once i)ires October 11 Remember the Europe of of each in It the rance of the the present which is Roumania Greece on The the population strength of tending nations office of offer should be Herald-Republican in ORDER Brought army each also country ex- That Atlas shows Make each this in Atlas is a 3500-word “The European Conflict Conditions and 11 collector to of of map map with page feature About” - and in ' sugar The on largest map Servia except war grouped the America in maps engaged countries navy Don’t com- a the world’s “i the at ih OCTOBER s be would compelled'as compelled MONDAY EXPIRE Co page double page other and WILL Herald-Ropublican makers full page article per which continental -supply Europe’ We Week the 75 The His which Great today-— cut off nearly of on This Subscription nearly and of supply sugar ourselves in Months and double page a a consists pages descriptive high-grade map beautifullygotten up full a Bulgaria and Pays Three severe would we and also Shortage Possibilities atlas contains shortagein the sugar the world often happens many causes ATLAS Rand McNally and map production from Let other by the REPUBLICANS - llxl4-rnch of maps printed on matter Il before HERALD WAR of 16 un-American of cut 5 crease for price potatoes higher one-half the tlie ’ Something would mean country a protracted revolution break out in Cuba or a drought should occur on that island The United States would be would produce enough sugar at home for our thus 30-000 article if the not distant and en-arfd position-of BARGAIN is war should existing decrease sieges department 1 furnished is what pound will it commodities outbreak of war blunderingand and Independentof the world’s markets the price of sugar to the consumer would never be more than 4& cents a or pound Naturally as the industry grows and the manufacturers are able ’to inaugurate economies in the cost of manufacture the cost of produc-tion numbering battle ' ' ' prices crop was cent higher than a 1 with corps 700-that consumption cent A ' this case defense of against THE which policy interested in the beet industry could now be aS-’ stable tariff policy a as regards for sugar a sufficient length of time even with the rate of cent per the needs In United States diminishedby sugar beet’ to Scarcely50 per cent of our present sugar requirements is now grown under the American flag A little over 40 per cent comes from “Cuba while less than 10 per cent of in than area IH include of the will this those time would come future when we : surrendered is ’ If all per much more without increasingthe domestic price of that commodity sugar I bulletin the September of and a would not be thrown the low-wage competition with product of Europe and the tropics sured History of with sugar Air President different Because we are producing a sufficient supply of this commodity for our home consumption the American people are today paying a price nearly 100 have tons of I -unnecessary not assured ten or twelve years that their Investmentwas safe Great Sieges amous I Liege by 30000 Belgians history there has never been a siege that of Plevna in 1877 when Osman three German army like defied the Russians for 144 days Pasha 125000 recalls the and finally surrenderedon December of history 10 with 30000 100 famous men and guns culture owing 1870-71 to and ammunition running The ranco-Prussian war of provisions Air President short In the same long the let the present year Kars was remarkable for its sieges Bazalne bulwark of the condition of the Ottoman empire in held out at Aletz against the Germans Asia sugarmarket be by the Russians was stormed lesson to for nearly two a us after a slqge of five months suggestto my months and finally with Democratic colleagues that instead 6000 officers and 173000 These sieges are insignificant however with some others of placing men compared or this he had to submit to The when sugar on the free list longest siege occurred in the court-martial and In 1316 and by so doing reduce was sentenced to American civil war when the confederates years’ imprisonment twenty defended the town of Richmond of our home production sugar Paris for 1485 days or over four years came the siege of Afterward 000 tons held the domestic beet lasted six months of war which Thousands Sevastopol in the Crimean shells were rained city every out for eleven on the months while General and cane sugar industries be day by the Germans and no fewer than Gordon defended Khartoum against the icouraged protected that they 40000 of the inhabitantssuccumbed to The sieges of Soudanese for 300 days and disease and hunger Mat eking Ladysmith Kimberley be allowed to expand until we the That lengthysieges are quite possible in South Aflcan war lasted 120 have reached that fortunate even in these days of huge guns is 123 and 261 days respectively illustrated by Pasha’s gallant is siege Churki There probably no which producing all of our sugar defense or like to read about so Adrianoplelast year for 155 Britishers much at home a condition which the days Then there was the comparatively as that carried out by rance and Spain present recent siege of Port in In their endeavorsto carry the Rock of exigency proves to be so Arthur the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-05 Gibraltar 1779-83 the siege Altogether very highly desirable finally after being lasted nearly four and which capitulated for years as the 210 world by Admiral Togo knows resulted in a complete blockaded The of of British arms in spite of Today may be the best day of the days namethose General Stoessel the triumph will rank with of the greatest fact that the year on which to buy a particular numbered enemy of 40000 while the defenders merchandise Get “light” from soldiers of modern times to men the “ads” Russian military could only muster 7000 In Ottoman and increased rather devoting this But it the sold buy tp be foreign These commodities sufficient and that they into we could have Britain this 50000 in three-acre Would demon sugar food in farmers’ per ago” etc any if the agricultural cereals to in could 37 year contemplated or it 1 produce consumption our in that “on figure about and regard industry if a of per sugar About two-thirds cent of the Improved land in this area is all that we would require to cease buying sugar abroad Alore than that area lies absolutelyidle every year Colorado Idaho California Alontana and Utah not only could supply all of this sugar but the increase in our consumptionfor the next twentyyears The diverting of 2000000 acres of land to sugar beet culture would not be felt in the production of other in fact the experience of crops we outbreakof The states government fixed a which little the Europe the cents the in domesticsugar who have invested investing beet the In August last country up four beets rotating crops the yield per acre of the latter is increased from 50 to 100 per cent so that the total yield of grain would be production own borders and fact that those supply to risen since purchase some 50000 New York this in plant i in' this home make this dependent upon our and for this great of the Air President had adopted stable the in in our significant a would be ample to build a sufficient number of factories to produce all the sugar with the quantity we are at present producing to supply our entire consumption What ProtectionWould Do by to sugar for us The UnitedStates is a countryof almost limitless resources There hardly any staple commodity we consume which cannotbe produced sugar that Britain of farmer were 4 is the additional claimed to 4 commodity the American will be required to pay above normal price of the they is price tract growers in Europe strates that by beets u ith cereal 4 4 Enough alreadyexisting both I account 3 sugar beet country and - on increased Unlimited Resources 960 beet consume in two years sugar factories could be erected with an output of 6500000 tons of Thus it will be sugar seen that the increased cost of sugarto the American people for one year alone It nations foreign the one cents per pound in this warning was The Democrats have w’hlch in two years of sugar country even more countryfor approximately With thesestates If But passed a law will entirely destroy an-and of 13 not brought months the present high price of sugar undoubtedly will continue to prevailfor at least other year the enormous sum $480000000 will be added to the sugar bill of the American consumer A beet sugar factory with a daily slicing capacity erected in this forced and ten even though about within the peace be next two year sugar down weeks heeded ' entire have I ' easily can produce undera fiscal policy sane cent per pound higher than it was for eight weeks before the 25 per cent reduction became effective and during all desire and such of Beet Culture Benefits of is forearmed” We had our warning in 1911 when a shortage something over a million tons sent the European sugar crop cents per the price of sugar up pound in this country The effect Industry of our domestic beet sugar felt was when the beet crop came on the market in Octoberof because $480000000 which 1 that the great the American today people Democratic party the committed in its passage of tariff law of 1913 Under this law the tariff duty on imported sugar cent this was and reduced25 per commodity will automaticallybe placed on the free list on May I often total the American i home which we $500000 illustration which the 1916 bn filched about condition of be a improved I we are not producing at great food necessity law IllustratesBlunder Mr will but bearing assured foreign this of the government very bring Burden are been of And because definite policy a our people not come alone can soon so have of SingledOut Sugar fall burden which people bill to Air President country the passageof the blow sugar always from flowing it would have product of the of that 2000000 acres planted to sugar beets would free this country from dependence foreign upon sugar Think of it Air President but 2000000 acres! Why the sixteen or seventeen states "which now produce sugar beets contain more than 2000000 and farms 278000000 acres of two $480000000 within years—an enormous price to pay for the lack of wise statesmansnip I imagine can hear my Democratic friends saying “War does T not expect predicted unprecedented prosperity Great the high and part states protectionagainst proper cheap-labor countries lack of annually us the cheapest in world” demand could it of threats for free capital less timid industry as flowed if produced under the American all of the sugar which we consume My prediction has realized but God knows did flag insistent refineries prevented the : we biennial more or into the follows last year the Democratic enacted a law reducing “Let import duties marketsin our buy full Smoot’s speech in President Democratic the sugar ’ modity Senator REED' SMOOT have contemplated ’ SENATOR dependent commodity the $480000000 the American public in burden to two years would build 960 beet sugar factoties with a capacity of 6500000 tons annually Or to put it another waythe extra cents a will pay pound the American public build for its sugar for one year would enough factories to supply with those sugar the entire consumptionof the American people The this country even more foreign countries for this food make th© United Prices of commodities which States producesin quantity sufficient to supply the home market have risen according statistics little if any to on government of the war The price of sugar lias risen excessively for American sugar consumption can be produced from 2000000 acres of sugar beets Sugar producingstates have 278000-000 of improved lands Colorado Idaho California Alontana and Utah could supply the entire present demand and any increased demand for twenty years the in : remained sugar and It of the is the it area strength the con-debt public a book every home YOURS NOW that |