THE WORKMAN, SATURDAY, MAY 24, 1930 PAGE SEVEN The Crisis in the Cabribean Sugar Industry LA MASCOTA Just Received a Large Assortment of ENGLISH TWEEDS Blue Serges, Black Cheviots and Cream Flannels Our Tailors Trimming Department LA MASCOTA By DE PASS, Chairman of the West India Committee The crisis which now faces the Guiana would involve distress of the of subsidence for the producer whilst Sugar industry of the West Indies most serious magnitude in all those Cuban or other foreign raw Sugar is and British Guiana is in many res Colonies and in some absolute famine offered at 87 10. Od. per ton it pects the result of conditions even with its conomi ant disorder. Whilst is evident that if the latter is made more theatening than those by which the Amer. can proprietors in Cuba subject to an import duty of 16s.
it was being ariven out of existence are fighting the Java proprietors and Od. per ton whilst Empire Sugar in the days of the Con. inental Sugar also the excess production in Con entered free, the consumer would in In the very Latest Designs bounties.
tinental Europe, the British Carib no way be penalised, whilst the To day, no doubt, the Continent Lean Coon. es would bleed to death. British producer would receive the play comparatively a scalier part Grope as one may for means of fair value of his industry and the reALSO than it did.
deliverance, only one of two methods venue of the country would benefit more potent cause for the pre appears to lead thither.
by the duties collected on foreign sent depression arises from the vast Either the industry must be sub sugar, which forms a large part of production in Cuba, resulting from sidised by the Mother country to the our consumption.
the enormous investments of Ameri extent necessary to provide the pro The foregoing hypothetical illuscan capitalists in the Sugar industry ducer with price for his product tration is an effort to show the of that island, and although the sufficient to cover its cost under Sugar industry of the Empire with present state of the market involves economic conditions plus his sub all that it connotes could be saved LEST YOU FORGET ruinous loss to the producers there, sistence or the system of import from ruin and extinction without all attempts at restriction have failed duties must be regulated that making the cost to the consumer largely because Java where the Empire Sugar is admitted to this higher than that which every other costs of production are the lowest in country at a differential rate as industry must secure for its product the world is unwilling to become a compared with foreign sufficient to if that very consumer is himself to ISUP. TO. DATE AS USUAL party to any general policy of reassure it a market at its economic live. It will be noted that as the value.
duction or production.
Was duty on 96 refining Sugar is to day The contest is not a question of the It seems reasonable to contend that is, 9d. per ton, the above suggessurvival of the fittest, but of the the latter is alike the more practic tion tends somehat to lower the price survival of the richest, and in such a able and the more equitable method. to the consumer. Obviously it causes contest the Producers of the British system of subsidies might have to a loss of revenue, since Empire MULLER Prop West Indies must unavoidably go unbe renewed year by year and to be Sugars, under the existing scale of 37 CENTRAL AVENUE 37 der. Yet their case is not even like varied in amount with the fluctua duties, pay at the rate of 6s. 9d.
per ton. Moreover, under the condithat of the British beet sugar indus tions of the market. Moreover, the try which had to be promoted and provision of the necessary funds tions indicated there would be a fostered by heavy Statesubsidies. would fall exclusively on the payers material increase in the quantity of Sugar in the British West Indies, of direct taxation, and would, in ef. Empire Sugar brought to this counthe consumer the tariff could be Wit and Humor young graduates instruction in how grown under conditions distinctly feet, become an additional burden on try. Supposing, inclusive of increas wade the means of salvation for our much to charge a patient. For calls more favourable to the labourer than the income tax payer to enable the ed production (especially in the Colonies. The policy of the Governat night charge fifteen dollars. If HELP!
those obtaining in Cuba, can be and general consumer to obtain one of Dominions) these importations ment as stated by Mr. Snowden is to the call is more than three blocks is produced nearly as cheaply as in his necessities below the cost of its amounted to one million tons (a wipe out all duties of every kind a In a certain village there is a cot away, charge twenty. For office that island production somewhat excessive estimate at all food stuffs; the suggestion made tage the door of which must be raised calls, charge ten. For giving aid Under system of preferential events until some years had elapsed. herein might well be regarded even In the days before the Brussels a little to be opened, and for this over the phone, always charge Convention it was frequently pointed duties the cost of defending the Em. then the loss of revenue under the by so enthusiastic a free trader as purpose a hatchet is used. One night thirty. If anybody asks me about out that it, owing to a free market pire industry would fall with jus head of Empire Free Sugar would be part of a step by step movement toa knock came at the door and a patient, charge three. For putting here for bounty led Continental tice and propriety on the article 4, 332, 500. By means of the rewards that goal, and whilst these youngster was sent to see who wa iucine on a finger, charge a dollar.
beet sugar, the cane sugar industry itself. and under Exchequer condi duction in duty on foreign Sugar steps are being made the world there.
And for revenue need be from 1s. 9d. to 168. Od. say price of Sugarmay reasonably be of the Empire were extinguished, tions in which no Who is it? inquired the boy How much, Doctor, interrupted a the consumer in this country would sought from the taxation of Sugar, it 9 per ton) on, another million tons, expected to advance gradually to It me, said the voice outside.
youth, do you charge a guy for passin the end pay heavily for the inter would be quite feasible so to arrange it would be 832, 500, or a total of wards a figure more consistent with de youngster recognizing thing you on the street?
mediate period of ultra cheap sugar, the tarift that the consumer paid no 4, 665, 000. It may be admitted that the cost of production woice, shouted back, It Mrs. Mur Ohio State Sun Dial The same danger lurks in the present more than the true economic value in the present state of the country uneconomic price, together with for his Sugar. Thus if we take by finances such a loss of revenue could Meanwhile, it abandonment of cul phy: get the hatchet.
Mrs. Murphy didn wait.
BUY FROM THE WORKMAN far graver one, pregnant also dis way of example a price of 15 per not be envisaged, and the subject is tivation with all the evils that must ADVERTISERS AND GET grace for the Mother country. The ton to represent that at which raw here elaborated more with the object follow in its train is to be prevented, The old doetor was giving the VALUE FOR YOUR MONEY abandonment of sugar cultivation in refining sugar can be sold here on of pointing out at how small cost it is incumbent on the Government the British West Indies and British terms and leave a fair margin to the country and none whatever to to devise some method of saving the industry by means of direct assiswoosoo tauce through the Governments of the Colonies to the producers. It must not be disguised that pending a system of free imports for Empire PHYSICIAN Sugar such as herein adumbrated, the direct assistance referred to HAS REMOVED HIS OFFICE TO would have to be continued as referred to above, and that it should apNo. K STREET ply forthwith to the crop now in PANAMA CITY course of being marketed.
No. 59, 24th Street Chorrillo No attempt is made here to indicate what form this assistance should take all the more because varying conditions in various Colonies may call for differential treatment.
Such form of assistance would not impose any excessive strain upon the resources of the Exchequer since it need only apply to the Caribbean Colonies and Mauritius, seeing that the Dominions wisely and sufficiently CATHEDRAL PLAZA protect their own Sugar industries and the British Beet industry is still in receipt of a Government subsidy.
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