Honolulu Republican, Volume IV, Number 505, 24 January 1902 — CANE SUGAR MEN MAKE THEIR PROTEST [ARTICLE]

CANE SUGAR MEN MAKE THEIR PROTEST

NEW ORLEANS. Jan. 9.—Many Louisiana cane sugar growers. :n session here today, unanimously adopted a protest to Congress against the proposed concession to the producers of cane sugar in the Island of Cuba in part as follows: "Though the United States has given to Cuba a freedom for which she was formerly fighting hopelessly, the Cubans now desire that thew shall be helped by the remission by our government of the sugar duties levied under the Pingley tariff. We prot-st, because this method singles us out from among all the sons of our American country as the victims whose s'uhstance is to enrich the cane fields of Cuba. “We protest against their demands', because they will result in establishing a rate of tariff on agricultural products from Cuba for all time and which will continue to injure us so long as the tariff shall last. “We trust that consideration f this protest will prevent any governmental actions on the lines laid down by the Cuban delegates: we trust so in onr interests as well as in 'hose of our fellow American beet sugar producer*, our vegetable and fruit growe-s, and our tobacco planter- of the United Stales." Copies of the protest were ordered sent to President Roosevelt an 1 to Congress