x? v w v v aaaaAAAM?!,W,.A ?rWfv. rv'V
r-rrrvwJw
$The ARMSTRONG CLOTESMG COMPANY jjjj
j g 1 " e
S
etc
Are now offering, what is probably the
.. . N .
greatest inducement to buy ever offered in
JUlllUUXJA. X illO XIX vL ILlsJXLwJJL U XXX UJLXts XVX 111 WX Q g
a massive
IP TO : ML
nnd fivfirv artinle of fiirnishiners is the same hi
The ticket means f
more, to the men of Lincoln and Vicinity, c
than we can say. Each ticket speaks of f
more than sacrifice, greater than bargain, f
and it stands for the best.
as you sea it here.
Ml
V 5
2
DIVIDED IN
$30, $27.50
and 25 Suits
$15.90
m603&ds $11.90
$16.50, $15 and M
$13.50 Suits $Oo yJI
$12.50, $10 and
$8.75 Suits
1221-1227 O Street. Lincoln, Nebraska.
GREAT LOTS P
etc'
ft
3 fu
$5.90
CAN RAISE PRICES AT WILL
Extraordinary Provisions of the Tariff
Law to Protect Sugar Trust
Housewives have no doubt noticed
at this fruit preserving season that
sugar is much dearer than it was a
year ago. Then it was 4 to 5 cents
nound. now it is 6 or 6 cents. No
Hispase has struck the sugar cane
and just as much, if not more, sugar
i heine Droduced, but tne roDDer
who control the sugar trust
ur. a mnnnnniv and so they advanced
uac -4v""i .
the priced twenty per cent. There Is
iffQpan nf about. 2V. cents a pound
between the price of raw sugar and
the refined and the cost of refining is
less than cent a pound, so it is
easy to figure the enormous pront
that the trust makes on the 2,579, 642
tons or an average of seventyne
pounds for every man, woman and
child that are consumed oy tne peo
ple of the United States.
If the comDlicated tariff sugar
schedule was simplified and reduced
by even what is known as the "dif
ferential duty," leaving the regular
duty of about one cent a pouna to
be collected, the price of sugar would
be considerably reduced, and if sugar
was free it would sell for 2 cents
a pound. But as the country is run
ning deeper in debt and as there is
a large deficit in receipts over the ex
nfmditures in the treasury, it will be
impossible to abolish all the tariff tax
on sugar, as the money is needed to
run the government. The duty on
sugar varies according to its degree
of purity; 100 degree sugarthat is re
fined, such as the granulated sugar
generally used, pays 1.95 cents a
pound, while 75 degree sugar, that is
raw brown sugar, pays .95 cents v a
pound and .035 of a cent is added for
each additional degree of purity, the
duty on 100 degree sugar is therefore
1.825 cents. But as 100 degree is
pure sugar, that is refined, the. law
says the duty on it shall be 1.95
cents or one-eighth of a cent a pound
more than the equivalent duty on
sufficient raw to make one pound of
refined sugar. This one-eighth of a
cent is the "differential." It is the
amount per pound the refiners can
collect from consumers over and
above the amount of duty which the
refiners have to pay on the raw sugar.
There is also protection hidden in the
granulated scale of duties on raw
sugar, which probably increases ' the
"differential" to one-fourth of a cent
a pound or about $13,000,000 a year
which is the special protection the
trust enjoys and which you all have to
help pay besides the regular tariff
tax. This protection prevents importa
tion of refined sugar and allows the
trust to advance the price at its own
sweet will. . To stop this extortion
from the American people the tariff
must be so adjusted that if the trust
advances the price beyond a reason
able difference between raw and re
fined sugar foreign . refiners will
export their sugar here and compete
with the trust -
