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THE SEMI-WEEKLY ROBESONIAN.
THE TARIFF ON SUGAR.
What it Cost the Country-An
InTestisauon Which Vitally
Interest all the People.
Baltimore Sao.
The investigation by a com
mittee of the House of Repre
sentatives into the Sugar Trust
will brine: into the sunlight the
most interesting of all tariff sub
jects. According to the figures
of the Government, each person
in the United States, man, wom
an and child, uses, on the aver
acre, over 81 pounds of sugar each
year. Multiply 81 by 5 and the
amount consumed by the aver
age family will be shown. The
amount used by such a family is
over 400 pounds a year. It is
one of the necessaries of life,
and the price of sugar concerns
every citizen, and especially
those of small means. The Gov
ernment taxes all raw sugar im
ported at the rate of about one
cent a pound, and from that tax
derives over $50,000,000 a year.
This is the revenue tax. Upon
top of that tax is put another
cent per pound to protect the
Sugar Trust from foreign compe
tition. That extra cent per
pound is collected, not by the
Government, but by the sugar
refiners. This is not all that
Congress has done for the Sugar
Trust. It has made the test of
raw sugar such that all imported
raw sugar must either pay the
prohibitory tariff or go to the
sugar refineries before it can be
used. The Sugar Trust, for
whose benefit the people of the
United States must pay so enor
i i
mous a triDute, nas been con
victed of cheating and defraud
ing the Government by means of
false weighing and perjury to
the extent of many million dol
lars. The company has now, af
tr having paid its enormous
dividends and $3,500,000 to the
Government in settlement of its
frauds, a surplus of $19,874 000
in its treasury.
Mi the Congressional investiga
tion on Wednesday a witness,
who was formerly secretary of
the company, was asked whether
he believed that the removal of
duties would decrease the price
of sugar. The witness said he
believed it would "in time."
There is no doubt about it what
ever. Under the law of 1864 the
duty on sugar was from 3 to 5
cents per pound. In 1870 the
tax on refined sugar was re
duced from 5 cents to 4 cents,
and the price of sugar went
down 1 cent per pound. In 1883
the tax was reduced one-half
cent per pound and the
sugar declined one-half
pound-
In a speech delivered in the
House of Representatives on
May 5 Mr. Warburton, a Repub
lican from the State of Washing
ton, estimated that if sugar were
on the free list the people here
could buy it at $1.90 per 100
pounds less than it now costs
them, or about as cheap as it
sells in England. Last year the
consumption in this country was
7,360,000.000 pounds. If Mr.
Warburton's estimate is correct,
then the tariff on sugar costs the
people of the United States $139,
000,000 a year, and of this the
Government gets $52,000,000 and
the sugar men get $87,000,000.
In opening up the sugar ques
tion the House of Representa
tives is engaging in an investiga
tion which will vitally interest
the people of the country.
SUGGESTIVE QUESTIONS
On th Sunday School Lesion
by Rev. Dr. Linscott For
the International Press Bible
Question Club.
CmvrnM 191 1, by R. T. Si Uwd, D.O.
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July 2nd, 1911.
(Copyright !10, by Kcv. T. S. I.inicntt, P.P.)
Isaiah's Prophecy Concerning- Sen
nacherib. isa. xxxvii: 14-38.
Golden Text God is our refuge and
strength, a very present help in
trouble. Ps. xlvl:l.
(1.) Verse 14. What letter was it
that Hezeklah spread before the Lord?
(2.) Is it the privilege of every man
to spread all his letters, including
those which give him trouble, before
the AlmiKhty God, and if so, what is
the advantage in doing it?
(3.) What if ajiy advantage is there
in telling our troubles to God in the
house of the Lord, over doing so in
our own homes?
(4.) Verses 120 Hezeklah tells
God in much detail the nature of his
troubles. Now what good is it to do
that, seeing God knows all about it in
any event?
(o.) Why does God not know all
about our heartaches and our needs
before we tell Him, in the same way
as He knows afterward?
(6.) What is the advantage of urg
ing God by all the argument we can
think of, as Hezekiah does here, to an
swer our prayers?
(7.) What effect does the degree
of our vehemence, or the extent of our
desire, have upon God in answering
our prayers?
(9.) Why did not God answer Heze
klah direct, instead of through Is
aiah? (10.) Apparently some men with
equal goodness are bette able to re
ceive detailed messages from God
than others. If this is so, why is it?
(11.) May we rest with absolute
certainty in the assurance that hav
ing told God our needs, He will sup
ply them? Why?
(12.) What is the reason for believ
ing that no person and nothing can
bring ultimate injury to a man, or a
cause trusting in God?
(13.) Why are men so foolish as
to think they can prevail against
God?
(14.) Verse 29 Why does God take
Injury done to His people as done
against Himself
(15.) Would you go so far as to say
that every hurt by word or deed, done
against a child of God, is done against
God? Give your reasons.
(16.) Give an example of how God
restrains the wicked as stated here,
"I will put my hook into thy nose, and
my bridle in the lips.1'
17.) Verses 30-32 As an example
of how God rules, and overrules, think
of your own blessings, and say how
many of them are a result of your
own efforts and how many from causes
over which you have had no control?
(18.) Verses 33-37 What means
did God take to prevent Sennacherib
from capturing Jerusalem?
(19.) How did the angels of the
Lord slay probably 185,000 of the sol
diers of the Assyrian army in one
night? (Give some Bible examples of
how such things have been done.)
(20.) Verse 38. To what extent is it
a rule that men get what they would
like to give others and that "They
who use the sword perish with the
sword?" (This is one of the ques
tions that may be answered in writ
ing by members of the club.)
Lesson for Sunday, July 9th, 1911.
The Suffering Servant of Jehovah.
Isa. lii:13 liii.12.
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Still Destroyed Near Cumber
land and Hermett County
Lines.
FayetU-ville OWrvtr. Zkl.
Deputy Collector Holland,
Messrs. A. F. and J. C. Surles
and ex-Sheriff N. A. Watson
went out on a "still" hunt yester
day and bagged a 50-gallon still
at MacRae Town, about the Cum
berland and Harnett county lines.
The party after going a certain
dntance in vehicles, alighted and
had to foot it for 12 miles before
finding the still. It had just
been carried to the spot where
found, and everything was in
readiness to begin operations.
A large quantity of meal was
captured with the still, which
was .broken up and arried away
by the officers.
International Press Bible
Question Club.
I have read the Suggestive Ques
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published in The Robesonian, also the
Lesson itself for Sunday,
(Date)
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