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Show ARE LARGE SUGAR IMPORTERS TRYING TO FOOL THE PUBLIC? Domestic Producers Refute Argument That Emergency Tariff Law Adds $162,000,000 Yearly to Sugar Bill of Amer-ican Amer-ican People H i Special, i I NKW TORK. March 17- Th Sugir, Producer' conference authorizes this statemen' The Mg refiner of Imported ruervr and lnteraatB closely allied with the n on'ro) over 50 per cent of the entlr. production of sugar In Cuba. The.? interests are carrying on h r id spread propaganda for a rsduet.cn in the tariff on Cuban sugar. In support sup-port of the claim that the duty n this sugar should be reduced thev make the Assertion that th rut of duty Imposed by the emergency tariff lav.-, which went Into effect on May 38. 1921. and Increased tho -ot of bringing Cuban rugar Into the 1'nlted State by six-tenth of a cm i pound, adds 1112.000.000 a year to the sugar bill of the American people. peo-ple. in I in IN QfJOTI D To show how this figure Is arrived at. we quote from a bulletin Issued by the American Producer of Cuban Cu-ban Sugar ' on January 16. 1922. an 1 distributed throughout the country This bulletin contains the following s'at ement I Th tariff of 1 10 a hundred pounds on Cuban sugar, whh h it Is .low proposed to make permanent, means S tax of $112,000,000 annually on the sugar consumed In the soun-trc soun-trc Of this $162,000,000 tax. $90,-ouO.100 $90,-ouO.100 Is paid to the government ns duty on Cuban sugar nnd then paid by th American consumer as a part of tho price, of the sugar you use In your coffee or eat In your candy. The balance, or $72.000.Ou0. Is In KSllt a more direct tax, which the con-ximer con-ximer pay! to the domestic sugar producor." This statement mean. If It tnenm anything, that the cost to tho consumer con-sumer of all the sugar ho buys whether that sugar was imported and paid a duty or was produced duly free In the 1'nlted States. Is id cents a pound higher than it would bo If there were no Import duty, and l six-tenths of a cent higher than it would be if the emergency tariff law had not been put In force Ust Mav. SO RAIS1 in pun i An examination of the records of the sugar market shows conclusively conclusive-ly that there was no Increase In th--price of sugar when the emergency tariff went into effect The last sale of sugar before the tariff act became be-came law. and the first Bait after It became law. were both made at e- acny enr name price. immediately i thereafter the price declined and the' general trend of prices continue. 1 downward until the very end of tne year, In spite of the strenuous efforts of the Cuban sugar Importers to prevent pre-vent this decline. The cost and freight price of Cuban Cu-ban sugar (that Is tho price before paymont of the duly) did decline, howevor. exactly ix-tenihs of a cent a pound as soon as the emergency tariff act baosune las The Cuban producer received th-vt much less fur his sugar This ShoWl lonrly enough who paid the difference In duty. On this point, however, wo hae the evi-cleno- cif iiw Mil;,- ' ni.-rii an ..-ducers ..-ducers of Cuban Sugar." who clalmcu In their bulletin of January 16 that the Increase in duty was taking millions mil-lions out of the pockets of Am. c-c-an sugar consumers. In another bulletin, dated January 23. 1922. one week after the firs: cine, they maM the following statement: B1 I LET 1-x i iN IRMlK "Under this (Emergency Tariff act the producer In Cuba has been compelled to absorb this additional duty uf 60 cents per hundred pounds The day before this act wn signed by President Harding. Cuban sugsr 1 were selling at S 875 cent, snd on fi H the following day at 3. 275 cant, or U H a decrease of 40 cent per hundred H 9 ' ds It is rtltntd thst ths , H coming Into fore of this act depre- H the value of the raw augai H then m Cuba abou 135. 000. 000.' M H I' requires no very brilliant mini to understand that If the foreign pro j H du BrS or Importer of sugar pay th" L H tariff lt cannot be paid by Amer: I H .-onsumers. and vie vera. Evl- ' dently the publicity experts of the sugar Importing interest place a lo- stirr.MN on the Intelligence Of th" H American public. Possibly th two xjontradlrtnrv bulletins were Intended for circulation In different quarter ono to Impress the ordinary cltl- zen with the Iniquity of the tariff on sugar and the otBSI to move congras 08 ths sufferings of th - iH great corporations that control the l hulk 'h. i uuan sugar crop. H FOREIGN! u P v. 1 The statement tha' th Increase in the tariff on Cuban sugar lmpnd rv H the emergency tariff law has been pafaaal i... i , i . t ffaaaaaal pm b) mo loreigner importing U BH sugar Into the 1'nlted States ha 'sn made over and over again by the verv iH interests who are seeking :o abollgn this tariff. A commercial mission i sent to Washington from Cuba last ' iH summer submitted to congress through the department of state I brief on the Cuban sugar altuatloi'. M which contain this statemen! i H iti May 27. 1 921. Cuba was sell- ! Ing her sugar at 3.875 cents a pound. The emergency tariff act wo signed ij by President Harding on the night pi iH 'he 27th and went into effect on th-Immediately th-Immediately thereafter Cuban sugar depreciated to the extent of 40 rent per hundred pound. wh!-ii I Is exactly the fllffSTtncs between the . I old and the new- tariff rcn on augar for Cuba, equivalent to about $2 per BBBaaai Testlfvlng before the senate finance committee on December 19. 1921. i Edwin F. Atkins, who "ontrols some f of the largest sugar mills In Cub. M and who has been a consistent op- j penent of tariff protection for Amer:- ) can grown sugar, said that tho Cu- f ban producers had paid 'he l-icreased i duty. On the same Occasion, II. A. E Rublno, representing another big f M Cuban sugar company cnntroUod by an American rsflner, said: f Since the enactment of the Ford- l I ne Enieigen. Tariff Cuban, as well f -H as full-duty sugars, have sold on a ( I price basis equivalent to free-dutx V . sugars, and at no time has the in- ! rcased turlff of aix-lenths of a cent been borne by the American con- j I sinner. The Increased tariff, there- fore ha- In aM ases been bornS by r 'he I'uban producer." f l i 'IN II li O' BM IONS Many other statements to the am- 1 effect made by the very men who f are seeking lo have the tariff on su- gar reduced or removed could lie j, quoted, but one or two simple que-. Y tions will be sufficient to show the I B8 real motive behind their agitation I If the tariff on sugar Is paid hy tH the COnptimsr and does not effect, the I price paid by the foreign Importer. why are these great sugar Import I ing corporations raising such an Out- I for the reduction of the tariff I W ere the) ev-r before known 'o show I uch solicitude for the consumer? Did f they make any move to help him In I 1920. when, after home-growti su- I gar teas off the market, the price of I Cuban raw sugar was pushed up to I 23 rents :i pound and refine. I sugar I cost the consumer 25 to ,85 cents I W'e all know the ansivsjr to these I iuestlons. |