Import Duties otl Sugar
Letter of Arbuckle Brothers, Refin
ers of Sugar in New York City,
to Hon. James A. O’Gorman,
i United States Senator From New
1 York, Advocating the Removal of
J All Import Duties on Raw and
. Refined Sugars.
(Continued from Last Week.)
ENATOR LODGE argues the
great benefit to the farmers
from the sugar tariff sched
ule. The highest basis paid
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for sugar beets anywhere in the
United States is on the following
scale: $4.50 per ton for beets
when the sugar contained is twelve
• per cent, and 33 1-3 cents per ton
advance for each one per cent, in
crease in the* sugar contained. Mr.
F. O. Licht, recognized the world
over as the leading statfstician of
Europe in these matters, gives the
average price paid the farmer for
sugar beets in Germany (where the
tariff on raw sugar is 47c per 100
against our $1,685; and on refined
sugar 52c against our rate of $1.90)
per long ton, as follows:
In 1909-1910 .$5.30
1910- .«... 5.44
1911- ... 5.56
This is not the whole story. The
beet growers of Europe are fur
nished with their beet seed free of
charge. In the United States the
factory imports the beet seed from
Europe and sells it to the farmer.
In Europe the farmer gets 40 to 60
per cent, of the pulp returned to
him without charge. In the United
States the pulp is sold by the fac
tory to the farmer. The selfishness
of the beet sugar factory owner and
his disregard of the welfare of the
farmer is further easily shown. The
factories buy the sugar in the beets.
