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THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON
WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 23, 1923
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ways, as compared with Spain and other nations? She has1
favored them by her patronage wherever possible, in prefer
ence to this country. She has been inclined to patronize
Spain, from whose tyranny we rescued her, rather than to
patronize this country.
The United States has given Cuban sugar and other
Cuban products a special reduction in duties to the amount of
20 per cent. That has permitted Cuban sugar, cigars and
other products of tobacco, her principal exportable products,
to come in at rates of duty one-fifth lower than is paid by
other countries. It doesn t look as if we had dealt very narsn
ly with Cuba.
No government is organized to protect and build up the
industries of another country; that duty devolves upon the
country itself. Having freed Cuba and placed her on her feet,
it is not incumbent upon us to wet-nurse her through her
entire future existence. It is the duty of this government to
develop its own sugar industry, along with all other indus
tries. We are doing so and the result is that there is a large
amount of sugar on the market and prices are low. Sugar
would not be so low in price but for our domestic industry.
No nne can disnute that ooint. The consumers of the United
States benefit from the low prices.
Does Mr. Brisbane want them to do otherwise?
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ArrW PricW !, onnnnco h r ho rncrW salaried A"at tan ue urougni aooui uy lowering or aooiismiig uie
,mx- r, w ttu sfoto Tf tw .rprpivps duties on . sugar and destroying the sugar industry of the
VWakVA AAA VUW ' VaUVVU W j We -av - U wwe m-mv a. w . v
$100,000 a year from the Hearst papers, besides parts of the
profits of . some of them. Mr. Brisbane is a brilliant writer.
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NoTembeT 23, 1923
A LOVE FEAST: Better is a dinner of herbs where lore is, than
stalled ox and hatred therewith. Proverbs 15:1?.
FOOLISH SAYINGS OF A WISE MAN
puppies left here lately on the
Canadian Pacific liner Mellta for
Antwerp. From there they travel
across France to Switzerland,
where they will form the nucleus
of a fox breeding establishment.
Theae foxes were purchased in
iN'ew Brunswick, from which prov
He is a singlarly well informed man. But he has his foolish
days. At least he had one recently. In his column in the
New York American for November 1st, he had the following:
t : . "The American tariff on sugar is ruining Cuba, a friendly
neighbor io which) decent
-treatment. i i
"Cuba's commercial balance of trade with the United
States has fallen in the last year from ?I6J,OO0,OOO to' '$85,-
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"Cuba, with commercial generosity, continues buying in
oirr markets, while we, with our cut-throat sugar tariff, are
doing all we can to strangle the prosperity of Cuba.
"The tax we inflict on Cuban sugar amounts to more than
one hundred per cent.
p "One hundred and seven pounds of raw sugar make one
hundred pounds of granulated sugar. It costs about one cent
a. pound to make raw sugar into white sugar. The Cuban
sugar grower, after paying " freight, lighterage, warehouse,
railway tax on , industrial process and other costs, gets less
than one half a cent a pound for the raw sugar refined and
retailed here at six cents. . ,
- "Under such conditions the Cuban grower cannot live.
Leaving out any question of decency.it is against the interest
of this country to destroy Cuba's sugar industry. A little
. while ago Americans were eagerly buying for $25 a bag of
sugar that can be bought now for $5 to $6.,. n.. ; ;
" "Unless housewives want to see the price of sugar go up
again they will do well to lay. in a supply and help get rid of
the present surplus.
made to the
past year or
ments have been
other side in the
two."
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The Southern Pacific has let the
contract to August Kehrberger to
pave the part of the street that
was occupied by its track on Nor-
about two and a half blocks, or
about 700 running feet. The peo
ple in that part of the city have
been anxious to have this work
done.
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A great ado is being made in
British Columbia about the hens
inces a number of similar ship- way, from Broadway to Churoh;that laid 268 eggs each, on the
average, in the recently closed an-V
nual contest for that province.
Down here we have pens that run
over 300 each, and have had for
a long time, and individual hens
with records up to 335 eggs. But
the Salem district is the best pout
try country in the world.
What Mr. Brisbane says in the above would disgrace the
average American high school boy
- For who before ever thought that any country was com
mitting an economic or other crime by decreasing its balance
of trade in favor of. another country? Some of thetime we
have bought of her about twice as much as he has bought
of us. And how has Cuba favored the United States in other
United States a result which would inevitably follow.
Mr. Brisbane speaks of our having had to pay $25 a bag
for sugar, while it now can be bought for $5 or $S a bag. Yes,
and we paid that price under a much lower tariff. As
matter of fact, we made the Cubans and a few New York
gamblers rich ,by the exorbitant prices which we hjjd,to pay
for sugar at that tnne; We can bardly4 think underline cir
cumstats that iKe people of this country will feel any great
amount of, ympaKy!, for the Cubans because of their present
plight, as Mr. Brisbane so touchmgly describes it. . i
But the American Economist, noticing the article of Mr,
Brisbane, says :
"But is Mr. Brisbane thinking about the Cubans at all?
Does it happen that he owns an interest in any Cuban plan
tations himself, or that he has business interests closely iden
tified with men who do own them? Is there a reason not
apparent to the public, and what is that reason ?"
If there is basis for the insinuation of .the American
Economist, the facts oughtfto be dragged out and given to
the public '
And the fact is that every day that the Wall Street junta
owning the refineries along the Atlantic seaboard, and own
ing or controlling the sugar cane plantations and lands in
Cuba
Every day that this bunch is allowed to get away with
the 20 per cent reduction in tariff charges on their raw
sugars, is a disgrace to every man in Congress, and a disgrace
to the intelligence of the leaders of thought in the United
States. ...
This 20 per cent was given in order to help strickenn
Cuba, after we had freed her
And now it helps principally the Wall Street sugar trust,
and the tobacco kings of this country. The fact that th3
Cuban farmer gets so little 'is a proof of this latter state
ment. But Mr. Brisbane is somewhat mistaken. 1 he Cuban
farmer gets a little more than he says out of each pound oii
sugar made from his cane. He gets $1.16 a hundred pounds,
instead of less than half a cent a pound.
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Thanksgiving day tomorrow
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And Salem has a lot of things
to be thankful for
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Among them being the fact that
she is having the greatest year of
growth in her history, and is look
ing forward to a much bigger year
In 1926.
There U something tf a boom
in fox breeding in the Willamette
valley; anar its W- being -extended
In amilorto' wildTotm nearly all
over theT country," "ahff'ln other
countfies'J ' t ' '
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An item from Charlottetown,
Prince Edward Island, Canada,
says that one of the largest con
signments of silver black foxes to
leave the island in some time left
there recently for Fenton, Mich
The shipment consisted of 3 12
foxes, having a value exceeding
$100,000.
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A Montreal, Canada, Item reads
About 1100,000 worth of black fox
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