anaheim-gazette 1909-01-07

BEET SUGAR AND THE TARIFF STRIDES OF INDUSTRY UNDER POLICY OF PROTECTION Food Products Have Advanced in Price, While Sugar Remains Stationary—Revenue of Benefit to Government—Sugar Bills of Americans Since Congress decided (?) ten years ago to encourage and foster the beet sugar industry, we have produced two million tons of sugar from American grown beets, for which our farmers have received $90,000,000, while $70,000,000 more has accrued to the other forms of American industry in connection therewith. Had this sugar been imported from the tropics and merely refined in this country, American industry would have profited only to the extent of $6.72 per ton of sugar or a total of less than $1,350,000, hence what we have already done has added the net sum of $158,650,000 to the returns of American industry. This 2,000,000 tons however has been a mere bagatelle compared with our importations, which now, amount to nearly as much per year as we have produced from beets in ten years. Sugar prices nearly stationary During this ten year period, all other classes of food products have advanced in price from a minimum of 16 per cent for wheat flour, to 46 per cent for pork, or an average of about thirty per cent while similar or greater advances have been made in the price of labor, coal, machinery and all other articles produced by American industry. During the same period, foreign price of raw sugar has advanced seven per cent, and the home price of sugar beets fifteen per cent. Considering all these advances which so naturally affect most of the products, and considering the fact that more than half a billion dollars customs revenue has been collected on sugar, in order to provide National Revenue and establish the erection of a half a million dollar plant. During the second five this period the reverse have prevailed. The fact increased their plantings hundred per cent while lists have increased the factories less than 100 per cent today scores of excellent especially in Arid America, to six thousand acres sign five or six years are unduce capitalists to give them thought or to invest. Last year alone our beets put increased 50 per cent there was last year erected entire United States but plant for that campaign. Apathy shifted The apathy concerning try has been shifted from of the farmers, to the mini capitalists. At first though strange that capitalists millions into the industry were not to be had, while offers of more beets than slice, they refuse to invest really there must be a cause reversal of conditions. The zeal of the farmers to get beets comes from their hardened that the culture of pays better than that of crop. The apathy of our capita first caused by our annuity Hawaii and Porto Rico andering of the duty on Cuba thereby admitting free or reduced rate of duty over 2,000 of sugar per annum. When itation for the free entry sugar began, eighty-six new sugar factories to cost $50,000 in course of organization. immediately abandoned and of them have since been rea result of such legislation has seen the Hawaiian s jump from 9,000 to 400,000 Porto Rican crop from 45,000 000 tons, and the Cuban cree few hundred thousand to tons, all of which naturally about thirty per cent while similar or greater advances have been made in the price of labor, coal, machinery and all other articles produced by American industry. During the same period, foreign price of raw sugar has advanced seven per cent, and the home price of sugar beets fifteen per cent. Considering all these advances which so naturally affect most of the products, and considering the fact that more than half a billion dollars customs revenue has been collected on sugar, in order to provide National Revenue and establish the beet sugar industry at home, we might naturally expect a material rise in the home price of sugar. But what are the facts: The New York prices of granulated sugar advanced from $4.50 per hundred pounds in 1897 to $4.52 per hundred pounds in 1906 or less than one-fifth of one per cent in ten years. In addition to this the retail price of sugar in New York has averageed lower than the retail price in Berlin, Paris, Vienna and St. Petersburg, the commercial centers of the greatest beet sugar producing countries in the world. If by fostering this industry of Arid America, an unjust burden has been laid upon any citizen or any state in the union, the figures do not show it. Revenues of national benefit The revenues collected have been shared by all the people, east and in to American industry of $158,650,000 has gone largely to Arid America and the bulk of it has drifted back to our eastern manufacturers in payment of goods not produced in Arid America. Had this sugar been purchased from the planters of the tropics practically none of the money paid for it would have returned to this country. This is evidenced by our trade balances with Cuba, San Domingo, Brazil and Java from which countries we purchase the bulk of our sugar. We annually send these countries $200,000,000 in gold in payment for their products while they return to us but $50,000,000 and spend the other $150,000,000 in Europe in the purchase of products which are common to this country. A million dollars per day The sugar bills of the American people amount to $350,000,000 a year or more than one million dollars per day for each working day of the year. In addition to consuming all the sugar produced from the beets of Arid America and the cane of Louisiana, Texas, Hawaii and Porto Rico we are annually importing 800,000 tons from foreign countries. Seven million acres might lie fallow It took the value of all the wheat of sugar per annum. Whenitation for the free entry of sugar began, eighty-six new sugar factories to cost $50,000 in course of organization immediately abandoned and of them have since been rea result of such legislation has seen the Hawaiian jump from 9,000 to 400,000 Porto Rican crop from 45,000,000 tons, and the Cuban crop few hundred thousand tons, all of which naturally this country, thereby redoubling prospective market for a likeness of home grown beet sugar. Anticipated legislation tha But it is not only past, it implicated legislation, which took curely bars the doors and issuing capital from embarking industry of arid America. Worst of all just as beet sugar had begun to get its wind" after being hit by fiscal sugar from both sides of it and was gradually returning industry, acute agitation for introduction of Philippine sugar it a body blow from which it yet recovered. These astonished men of millions known arable area of the Philippines times as great as is the area of Cuba, Porto Rico and that the population is for as great. They know that we prevailing wage rate on the beet farms of the United States of Porto Rico $13.00 in fields of Porto Rico $20 and in Cuba $20 to $26 Philippines it is but $4.29 per hectare. They know that with modern methods in the Philippines the free entry of Philippine our markets, it would soon possible for the American to pay a dollar per ton for baskets that our farmers could not them at that price. Starting but one-eighteenth the area one hundred and sixtieth of its importation of contract coolerese labor, and the raising of the ent acreage limit of corporate estates from 2500 to 25,000 acrese are the unsettled cowhich exist today, and which absolutely stopped the eree new factories to any extent. Five years ago the expansionthe industry rested largely w The sugar bills of the American people amount to $350,000,000 a year or more than one million dollars per day for each working day of the year. In addition to consuming all the sugar produced from the beets of Arid America and the cane of Louisiana, Texas, Hawaii and Porto Rico we are annually importing $90,000 tons from foreign countries. Seven million acres might lie fallow It took the value of all the wheat we raised on 8,500,000 acres or one-fifth of the entire wheat acreage of the United States, to pay for the sugar we imported from foreign lands and which we could have produced at home on 1,500,000 acres of American sugar beets. As a nation we would have "broken even," as the saying goes, if we had given up 8,500,000 acres of wheat sowings, planting 1,500,000 acres to sugar beets and allowed the other 7,000,000 acres to lie fallow or have turned it into golf links. Bright outlook ten years ago To produce this sugar at home would mean an investment of three to four hundred million dollars, in the erection of several hundred additional beet sugar factories and the consequent building up of a number of prosperous communities. Ten years ago it looked as though we were in a fair way to produce by this time all the sugar we consume. Field vs. factory development During the first five years of this ten year period, capital rushed headlong into the industry but the farmers were apathetic for it was a new crop. Capitalists increased the number of factories six hundred per cent in five years, while the farmers increased their sowings but 150 per cent. The projectors of new factories were crying for more beets, and any reasonably good community that offered contracts for from one to two thousand acres of beets could secure These are the unsettled conditions which exist today, and which absolutely stopped the erection of new factories to any extent. Five years ago the expansion of the industry rested largely on farmers. The farmers have come to the front with the best output of sugar per factor been increased over 200 per cent a rule the existing factories did not being operated to their advantage. They can handle no more beets; the farmers are begging for more materials in the erection of what is the only possibility of expelling the industry. Not until congress abandoned hesitating, its vacillating policy assures capital as to whether it will once and for all, take to some the naked peon half-save the Orient or the independent housed farmer of its own flesh blood and not until that time export new sugar factories to them all over World America or else they plastered all over the Philippines. Advocates of Philippine tariffation, state that sugar and tobacco are the principal products of the island and that our general tariff on Philippine products is the prime which induces prosperity or creation through the archipelago, according to fact, however that over per cent of the island's total exports absolutely free of duty that 80 per cent of Philippine exports actually entering our ports through our customs houses we bring subjected to the impositions any duty whatsoever. They repay that by collecting a duty on section of a half a million or one dollar plant. long the second five years of period the reverse conditions revailed. The farmers have and their plantings nearly six per cent while the capitalive increased the number of less than 100 per cent, and scores of excellent locations essential in Arid America, offering five thousand acres signed up for six years are unable to incapitalists to give them a secought or to invest a dollar. ear alone our beet sugar outcreased 50 per cent and yet was last year erected in the United States but one new or that campaign—Corcoran. Apathy shifted Apathy concerning the industries been shifted from the mindy farmers, to the minds of the ats. At first thought it seems that capitalists would pour into the industry when beets to be had, while now with of more beets than they can they refuse to invest. Naturure must be a cause for this of conditions. The present of the farmers to grow sugar games from their having learnthe culture of sugar beets better than that of any other Apathy of our capitalists was used by our annexation of and Porto Rico and the lowthe duty on Cuban sugar, admitting free or at a rete of duty over 2,000,000 tons per annum. When the agor the free entry of Cuban organ, eighty-six new beet sucries to cost $50,000,000 were of organization. All were eely abandoned and only six have since been revived. As of such legislation capital in the Hawaiian sugar crop from 9,000 to 400,000 tons, the can crop from 45,000 to 225, and the Cuban crop from a dreded thousand to 1,500,000 of which naturally comes to pine products we are profiting at the expense of our "wards," but they fail to state that on the 18 per cent of Philippine products on which we collect any duty whatsoever we collect but 75 per cent of the regular tariff rates imposed upon like products coming from other countries, and that the entire 75 per cent so collected does not go into our treasury at all, but is converted into a special fund, and remitted to the Philippine government, thereby reducing by that amount the burden of local taxation imposed upon the Filipino people, while American products entering the Philippines are subject to the imposition of their maximum rates of duty. In Europe it is recognized that the cost to the consumer of a pound of sugar is of minor consideration as compared to the vast economic advantages to be secured by producing their sugar at home. This is exemplified by the fact that all European nations levy protecting duties on sugar importations and while most of the sugar producing tropical islands of the world are colonies of European nations, not one of those nations, with the sole exception of France, makes the slightest tariff concession on sugar from its colonial possessions. The slight tariff concession which France grants to colonial sugars is an amount equal to the freight charges on the product from the colony to the mother country. Little Holland owns the island of Java which produces 1,000,000 tons of sugar annually, it being next to Cuba, the largest sugar producing island in the world. Holland purchases practically no Javan sugar, and the few tons which do come to the mother country are subjected to full duty. Holland on the other hand, produces from beets all the sugar its people consume besides exporting vast quantities to other countries. The sturdy Dutchman may love the native Javanese, Holland's "Little Brown Brother," but his home farmer his own blood and brawn is closer to his heart than the wily Oriental can ever expect to When the agriculture of the free entry of Cuban organ, elghty-six new beet surprises to cost $50,000,000 were of organization. All were selely abandoned and only six have since been revived. As of such legislation capital to the Hawaiian sugar crop from 9,000 to 400,000 tons, the Cuban crop from 45,000 to 225, and the Cuban crop from a hundred thousand to 1,500,000 of which naturally comes to entry, thereby reducing the live market for a like amount grown beet sugar. Estated legislation the worst is not only past, but anticislation, which today so severs the doors and is prevental from embarking in this of arid America. Of all just as beet sugar capbearen to get its "second ever being hit by free tropifrom both sides of the world gradually returning to the acute agitation for the free on of Philippine sugar gave below from which it has not covered. These astute, well known millions know that the area of the Philippines is five great as is the combined Cuba, Porto Rico and Hawaii the population is four times They know that while the wage rate on the sugar sales of the United States is 5 per month, in the cane Porto Rico $13.00, in Hawaii Cuba $20 to $26, in the it is but $4.29 per month. Now that with modern mills mills in the Philippines and entry of Philippine sugar to its, it would soon be immerior the American factories dollar per ton for beets and farmers could not produce that price. Starting with ninthenth the area and oned and sixtieth of the popuhave seen the sugar crop increase over four thousnt as a result of legislative dear to those which are beded' for the Philippines, lands included the free ensugar to our markets, the of contract coolie Chinand the raising of the preslimit of corporate sugar in 2500 to 25,000 acres. The unsettled conditions today, and which have stopped the erection of ties to any extent. TO WAGE WAR ON SQUIRRELS While there is no plague on the Pacific Coast anywhere and the only plague infected rat found in many moons was discovered at Oakland December 10, the Public Health and Marine Hospital Service has decided that California ground squirrels must be wiped out because they spread infection. They also cause losses to agriculture amounting to $10,000,000 annually. The fact that 477 ground squirrels examined in a laboratory in Los Angeles from November 30 to December 13 by Past Assistant Surgeon Stimson did not disclose even a trace of plague, seems to be no argument against the theories of the Marine Hospital Service. Neither does the fact have weight, that during the same period 481 other animals comprising gray rats, black rats, gambel pocket mice, white rats and rabbits were not affected with the plague. Dr. C. Hart Merriam of the Agricultural Department, chief of the Biological Survey, states that California is overrun with ground squirrels. The beechy ground squirrel makes most mischief. It is charged with spreading plague. Some of its colonies cover thousands of acres. It is fond of almonds, walnuts, apples, prunes, peaches, vegetables, grain and sometimes alfalfa. How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. 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