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Show LgM PRESENTS THE FACTS f' ' x $&?' lo the Ways and Means 1 'Tv ' Committee, I & . IANAgBR CUTLER'S VIEWS 1 ''4 I ' I l A subject of.vital importance to 1 I the country. 9 Manager Outler returned from his I M,rip to Washington on Wednesday fl 'K 'night He feels encouraged over the B '-outlook and thinks sotnetiiing will be fl -done for the sugar in the near future. I The report he made IWore the commit B tee is quite entonsiv.o and interesting -and we would like to give it if we could but can only give some extracts. The fl' first part speaks of the wrong done the fl 'industry by Hawaiian and Cnineso fl "competition. In the latter country the fl ,. product has increased 415 per cent in 4 I 'years just after the American tariff was H 'changed. fl " In 1890 America had 7 beet sugar i factories, in 189D still only 7. In 1890, I Liltlo Sweden had 4, to-day there are ' 10 there. From Egypt within the last H - .'year, 13 tramp steamships have brought H -sugar cargoes to America. In 18Q4, H '.' --Argentine protected Refined Sugar by H "9c per kilogram, and the product of that fl .year 84,000 tons, was the next year H ' . 128,000 tons. No sugur is produced and H , f little refined in free-trade England. H When the consumer in America paya H. r 5c for dry gran, sugar, the consumer in I in Germany pays GJtfo per pound, in I ' Austria 0o per pound, and in France .-&. ' 10 per pound, and yet by reason of their BL 'IOl 'v iu'' export and other bounties, they nro ryl f!lUl!ft...mn!trti wfMitijp w ilUablSlg-underefcll us in our .own market. H Germnny in 1890 produced 1,800,000 B f 'tons Kaw Sugar, and although 6he ex-Hi ex-Hi .portomoro than y of her product, she I has within four months doubled her ex-I ex-I Iport bounty, and France is clamoring B Ho-day for a higher one to meet her fl neighbors. fl The manufacturer in Germany, beside ifiho benefit of export bounty, has a snr-fl, snr-fl, ttasc of 20 marks per 100 Kilos, on un-fl- ported sugar, which allows him to make B, jin advance of 2J or 2,'2 cents additional St "before foreign sugar can compete, and B two syndicates are now forming in that ' country, one of the sugar manufacturers H ,und of the refiners, to enablo them to advance prices and avail of -this surtax. In Franco, the effect of a similiar sur- : Atax of 7 franca per 100 kilos makes the I -selling pricont the Exchange of Paris an average of 5 franca, that is "UjC higher V. ' than for export. 1 ' Germany in 1871-72 produced 1SH.370 jL-T' '' " , ' tons of sugar, and then inaugrated her U bounty system. ThiB year, 1800, they j double their export bounty and limited XL- - V- ithoir production to 1,7550,000 tons of U sugar, but tho notual production will be I ( f " ' .at least 1,800,000 tons of sugar. The fi , ' - ' reason of that overproduction is easy to .-V , J -, ' .understand when it is said that the j ' -penalty will beat the maximum 750 "$" . marks or $187.00 to be paid in total by I.. ' each offending factory. j,;,, i A parasite industry, like tho sugar ? v ' -4-r- TdSneriea of America, can thus buy these v ' f7 ' European exported sugars and take part 0jL ,!' ' ,ot the?e German and French (Russian, ?Pfl'" (" .Austrian and Uelgium) bounties to the Kr'il ',J' srnvo disadvantage of native grown mfa'-'tf, ''y .American sugar, unless tho latter bo W'y'i' .- ' - taasiHted in its defense. ' i' :, ' The consumption of this country is y. '" ' ' practically 2,000,000 tons of relined sugar, which at an average- of 4 cents "" ,per pound is worth if 100 ,000,000. , , That is, it ia the product of 400 such. "jPf - . lamall factories as die Utah Ueot Sugar -'KV .' ' Co. and of tho Alameda Sugar Go. 'which this year will each produce about 35,000 touH of white sugar, t -b ' Based upon the statistics of tiro California factory, that means the use of capital, land, labor, material, etc. amounting to $275,780,000. To grow, make and refine one ton of sugar requires 38 days work of one man. To refine alone requites 1 days work per ton. If the 4,000,000.000 pounds $ fcUgar wore grown in. this country, it would give direct employment to 248, 570 men during the whole year, and indirectly in-directly to more than twice that humber. When we send abroad $123,O00,C00 fjrliaw Sugar, we hae tecured in exchange ex-change only the nearly manufactured material for a parasitic industry to finish and sell, and our gold has left us forever. But if wo make all our own sugar fromthe ground upward, we shall have retained in our country na well, whether for taxation, for investment or for other icsources to the Comn.on-wcalth, Comn.on-wcalth, just th.it $125,000,000. This we shall do year after year, while wo shall have given profitable employment to the intelligent labor of a multitude of liberty loving Americans, wiio now arc either engaged in an agriculture which does not repay them for their labor, or who are idle while Coolies work and tiches accumulate in hands already overburdened with wealth. Labor in Germany is 28 cents per day . Labor in China is 8 to 10 cents per day. Contract labor in Hawaii is $l per month and found. Labor in California and Utah sugar factories is $1.80 per day exclusive of skilled technical labor, which is paid by the year. The average duty upon all dutiablo articles is 30.94 per e-vt., while the present duty upon sugar is 40 per cent. Why then do we require more than tho average duty. It ia 1st.' Because the clement of labor enters so largely into the problem, as against the simple refining interest be-in be-in the latio of 'H to 38. - t It is because wo desire to retain the price of American labor at its present high standard of comfort. It is because Native grown which in one year can be mude for 4c per pound, may with unfavorable climatic conditions con-ditions the very next year cost over 5c per pound. All foreign sugar producing countries hrvo promoted their beet sugar industries indus-tries through bounties and surtaxes. Tho bounty is intended to protect us temporarily against the American refining refin-ing inteiest, whoso enormous capitalization capital-ization enables it to fight a growing industry in-dustry by artificially depressing prices of sugar in one section of our country, while raising it by a compensating amount in some other section winch is deprived of tho competing benefit of a native sugar factory. This is tho personal experience of tho few factories which have tried to produce pro-duce white sugar ready for consumption and the deterrent offect upon the minds of our enterprising capitalists has bleu such that not one has dared to venturo in any new undertaking. A small bounty coming out of the duty derived from imported sugar will encourage capital .and promote rapidly the erection of needed sugar factories to supply our home consuption Ex-. Ex-. poctingsuch lolief, tho foundations nro , laid fpr two now sugar factories in ; California, and for one in Utah, and a third in California is only awaiting favorablo Congressional action before doubling its output, to a capacity o 10,000 tons a year. They protest against tho system of drawbacks on imported sugar and aug. gestaB fundimeutal principles of tfie sugar achudule of a tariff bill a specific duty to protect from foreign foes and a euall bounty on a sliding scale to protect pro-tect from foes at homo. This report was got out by Manager Cutler and a representative-from the Alvardo, Oal. factory. ,' - v . , . . ',' flu . jJv " V J" ." ' |