Evening Star Newspaper, March 16, 1937, Page 7

ADAMS URGES BILL T0 CONTROL SUGAR Advocates Passage of | Measure Designed to Sta- bilize Industry in U. S. Passage of the administration sugar bill, designed to stabilize the sugar industry in the United States and control imports from the outside, was advocated last night by Senator Adams of Colorado. | Senator Adams spoke over the Na- tional Radio Forum, sponsored by The Star and broadcast over the network of the National Broadcasting Co. The measure would continue the present quota system of dividing do- | mestic consumption between cane and beet sugar producers of continental | United States and off-shore posses- sions and Cuba. It also would levy a | processing tax of three-fourths of a cent a pound on raw sugar for pay- | ment of benefits to producers, In Accord With Message. | “This bill,” said Senator Adams, “largely drafted by thes sugar section of the Department of Agriculture, is in accord with the message of Presi- dent Roosevelt delivered to Congress on February 23, 1937. The bill does | not go as far in encouraging the de- velopment of the American sugar in- | dustry as I would like or as those engaged in that industry would wish, but it is the result of the meeting and compromise conflicting opinions | and interests and is a decided advance | in the promotion of the welfare of this industry over any preceding measure.” | Meanwhile, the administration bill was indorsed by producers of beet sugar in Central and Western States and opposed b; muel Wilder King, Hawaii's deleg: 0 Congress, as dis- criminatory against Hawai | Charles M. Kearney of Mor: Nebr., president of the National Beet Asso- ciation, told a House agriculture sub- tee his organization considered foundation for stabilization. Sees Hawaii “Outside Pale. ged Congress to “establish nciple that all parts ates are entitled to BY its quota limita- tions and restric on shipments of refined sugar, King said, “the bill places Hawaii outside the pale of the d States and associates it with ar possesions (Puerto Rico), a independent country (the Philip- pines) and a foreign country (Cuba).” The bill was introduced in Congress by Senators Adams and O’Mahoney, the latter of Wyoming, and Repre- sentative Jones of Texas. Text of Address. The text of Senator Adams’ address follows © for me and many ry funeral to any ingering free trade ideas. We con- cluded from the expe: r and of the years w that if our Nation was wise it would make every to become as nearly other THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON DG TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 1937. Urges Passage of Sugar Bill SENATOR ADAMS. --Star Staff Photo. limitations imposed because | the sugar industry. As an illustration, to meet our unemployment problem takes a large burden from our tax- peyers. ‘The people of the United States can, if they wish, secure cheaper sugar by allowing unlimited and untaxed importations of tropical sugars. By so doing they would save in the daily sugar bill of the average citizen slightly more than one-half a cent per day, or about 2 dollars per year, but by so doing they would do in- estimable harm to the American peo- ple in a multitude of ways. In addi- tion to the destruction of the great industry itself, they would injure many millions, farmers, manufac- turers, farms, factories and railroads. Many of the articles which are now produced or manufactured in the United States can be produced more cheaply in Asia or Europe, where wages are lower and living conditions inferior. Peril in Foreign Products. If we admit these foreign products without tariff or other restrictions we would have available many things at costs lower than we now pay, but we would not have the money to buy them, as we would find our mills and factories closed, our workmen unem- ployed, business demoralized, the farmer in despair. This would in- evitably bring lowered wages and liv ing conditions, in order to enable our country to compete. This is, of course, an unthinkable condition to tolerate, | let alone invite. ‘The increased cost to consumers re- sulting from our established policy of protecting and encouraging American manufacturers and producers is far greater in almost all lines than in the case of sugar. It has been estimated that the total increase in cost to con- business men, workmen on | ‘assured a fair price for the product, a bill has been recently introduced in the Senate by Senator O'Mahoney of Wyoming and myself, and in the House of Representatives by Congress- man Marvin Jones of Texas. This bill, largely drafted by the sugar section of the Agriculture De- partment, is in accord with the mes- sage of President Roosevelt delivered to Congress on February 23, 1937. The bill does not go as far in encouraging the development of the American sugar industry as I would like, or as those engaged in that industry would wish, but it is the result of the meeting and compromise of conflicting opinions | vance in the promotion of the welfare of this industry over any preceding measure. Sugar is the only one of our prin- | cipal agricultural crops of which no surplus is produced and the American demand for which must be largely supplemented by importation. The | sugar problem is also complicated by | the situation in our insular posses- sions and in Cuba the American sugar industry in the same manner as other agricultural | crops. | By sending to Congress a message | devoted exclusively to sugar legisla- tion, the President gave recognition to this fact | This bill is therefore drawn as a single independent and complete leg- islative unit, not a confusing series | of amendments to existing or pre- existing acts. It is, further, perma- nent and not temporary or emer- gency legislation. Prior to 1934 the only efforts to protect the American sugar industry had been by tariffs. These eflorts and interests and is a decided ad- | | It is impossible, therefore, to treat of the national necessity for econom- ical use of our sugar supply. The retail price of sugar in the United States for many years before the World War averaged below 6 cents per pound, but housewives will recall the narrow limits placed on sugar purchases, and even more vividly pay- ing 25 and 30 cents per pound. Sugar is on every table. It is one of the essentials of modern life. It is imperative that we insure to the American people an adequate and de- pendable supply of this great neces- sity under all circumstances, and at a fair and reasonable price. Of course, the safest and most dependable source of supply would be sugar produced in the Continental United States. It would seem the part of wisdom that we not only protect but encourage American sugar production. At the present time the United States pro- duces less than a third of the sugar it consumes United States Costs Higher. Sugar cannot be produced as cheap- ly in the United States as in tropical islands where cheap labor abounds. If there were neither tariffs nor limitations upon the importation of sugar into the United States our sugar industry would be destroyed. that fertile tropical islands like Cuba and the Philippines could produce. Over 265,000 people are directly engaged in the sugar industry in the United States. When the fam- ilies of these workers are included, not less than 1,000,000 of our popu- There | is practically no limit to the sugar | on an average each acre of sugar | beets contributes $35 to the income of | the railroads of the country each year, | The sugar industry consumes vast quantities of iron and steel, copper, coal, limestone, oil, cotton and other | products of American farms and fac- | tories. It builds and maintains great | | refineries with their complicated and | expensive machinery. It furnishes tre- | mendous tonnage to the railroads. It pays annually a vast sum in taxes to the Federal, State and local governments. | The by-products of the industry contribute greatly to the live stock industry. In Colorado, my home State, where- ever you find a sugar factory you find a prosperous town, with churches, up- to-date schools, and all those things which tend to produce good citizen- ship. Every acre devoted to the cultivation | of sugar beets is an acre withdrawn | from the production of some one or | more of the great competitive crops, | the surpluses of which have been such a serious problem to the Na- tion. Few, if any, crops require as much labor as the sugar beet The sugar industry’s contribution Saddlery and TRUNK Lurcase Repairing of Leather Goods G. W. 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