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Louisiana and Florida grow sugar cane as do Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the Philippines. But production in Louisiana and Florida is relatively small and the insular possessions of the U. S. have no vote in Congress. Politically speaking, the U. S. sugar industry is the sugar beet industry in Colorado, Montana, Nebraska, Idaho, Utah, Michigan and California. Sugar beets require an immense amount of hand labor. Therefore beet sugar is more expensive to make than cane sugar. Thirty-seven years ago the beet sugar industry learned how to counteract this disadvantage when it induced Nelson Dingley Jr. of the Ways...
That tariff worked directly against Cuban cane but, much to the chagrin of the sugar beet people, it also benefited Hawaii and Puerto Rico and, after 1913, the Philippines. After the War more and more of U. S. sugar came from the U. S. and its island possessions, less and less came from Cuba. Cuba, who could not sell her products elsewhere, got into much the same sort of trouble as U. S. wheat and cotton producers who lost their foreign markets. To make matters more comfortable for the beet sugar industry the tariff on Cuban sugar was raised...
...ancient tariff device began to work in unfortunate ways for the beet sugar industry. It left Cuba with a huge sugar surplus, brought her producers such hardships that they sold their product as low as ⅝? a Ib. (in 1932). But even with a 2? a lb. duty the costly beet sugar industry could not make a profit out of 3? sugar. Hawaii. Puerto Rico and the Philippines, well inside the tariff, could. They expanded their output immensely, until beet sugar producers realized that sooner or later the islands would take the U. S. market away from them. Thus while...
...help it out of this new fix the beet sugar industry could think of nowhere else to turn for help but to Congress. Its first move was to agitate for Philippine independence-less to give the little brown men freedom than to keep their sugar from coming in duty free. A few weeks ago the Philippines were given their second offer of freedom. But still all was not well. Some of the President's advisers wanted to knock down the tariff barriers, thereby administering a death blow to the beet industry as too inefficient and costly a luxury...
President Roosevelt, ever apt at Compromise, worked out an agreement aimed to conciliate the beet industry, to help Cuba and regain the U. S. market there. He proposed (TIME, Feb. 19) to quota sugar production for the beet industry and provide import quotas for the U. S. islands and for Cuba. With sugar made a basic commodity and imports controlled, a processing tax would be applied in the U. S. to subsidize beet sugar producers. The quotas which the President proposed were liberal to U.S. producers compared to past performances...