SPUBUCAN NEWS ITEM. CHAI&ES L W3H6, Editor. Published E verylThuraday Afternoon By The Sullivan Publishing Co. At the County Beat of Sullivan County. liAPOHTB. PA. Entered at the Post Office at Laporte, as second-class mail matter. Republican Standing Committee Meeting. There will be a meeting of the Republican Standing Committee men in the Court House at Laporte Pa., on Saturday, April 4, 1903, at 1 o'clock p. in., for the purpose of lixing the date for holding the Republican Primaries and County Convention. All members of the above named committee are re quested to be present. WM. P. SHOEMAKER, Chairman. BEET SUGAR'S PATE. WILL BE DETERMINED BY ACTION OF PROFESSED PROTECTIONISTS. TUc Outlook at Present I* Not Very Good—Discouraging Condition of the Industry From Two ImportMt Points of View. Tlie outlook for the beet sugar inter ests at the moment is far from satis factory, both from a legislative and in dustrial standpoint. The sugar trust is showing increased activity and using every means in its power to turn the sentiment in congress against the in dustry. The managers of the trust saw the great opportunity offered them to knife the beet sugar industry in its infancy through the aid afforded by the sentimental position taken by Pres ident Roosevelt and those members of congress who follow his lead either through honest belief or in hope of material personal advantage. The growth of this new industry is the only thing that threatens the trust's control of the sugar supply of the Union. It must, therefore, be an immense relief to the trust to see the supposed friends of the beet sugar industry ready to throttle it before it has had time to prove its value to the people of the country and relieve it forever from de pendence upou foreign sources for a supply of this great staple. In the mixed and contradictory sto ries that come from Washington it is difficult to get a correct view of the situation. It is asserted, however, that Senator Burrows will favor the adop tion of the Cuban reciprocity treaty, which reduces the tariff on all Cuban sugars 20 per cent. Then comes the announcement that Senator Alger will follow the lead of Senator Burrows in this respect. It seems hardly possible that these gentlemen will aid in strik ing down what is becoming a great in dustry in this state for the benefit of a foreign nation. We had always sup posed that senators and congressmen were sent to Washington to protect the interests of their state, not to assail them, and that a farmer in Michigan would be given more consideration in legislation than u farmer in Cuba. In fact, we were not aware that our rep resentatives were sent to congress to represent the Cubans or their special Interests, but perhaps we are all wrong on this point. These assaults on the industry have also come at a time when the beet growers, discouraged by an exception ally unfavorable season, are demand ing a big advance on ttie price of beets, which, if the factories refuse to pay, ■will likely result in some of them clos ing down. A2O per cent reduction In the tariff and a considerable increase in the price of beets are a conjunction of influences that cannot but have a tendency to stop the further Invest ment of money In factories. The very men who are demanding concessions to Cuban sugar growers and talking about the big profits of manufacturers will be the very ones to refuse to invest a dollar In factories once they are grant ed. They would not take the chances, especially when the growers are also demanding more money for their beets. All this trouble for the beet sugar In terests is very pleasing to tlie trust, niul its friends are in hopes that the results will be so disastrous as to wipe out the industry entirely and again de liver the country into its hands. Then the losses sustained in fighting beet sugar can be made up out of the peo ple. If the avowed protectionists in con gress allow this beneficent industry to be destroyed, the only one in which the farmer can know the price he will receive for his crop before it is grown, Rnd can control to his own advantage, they will strike a blow at the princi ple they profess that will never be for gotten or forgiven. They are practical ly telling the farmers that protection is all right for the manufacturer, but not for them. The sugar trust is to get cheaper raw sugar to refine and to be aided in killing its only rival. The only hope that Is held out to the true friends of the beet sugar industry comes from an unexpected source. The senators and congressmen from Louisi ana and Texas are said to be opposed to the measure and will fight it. They assert that the proposed treaty is a measure that has to do with the reve nues of the government and all such legislation must originate in the lower house. There may be suffieleut votes from this source to offset the weak kneed and derelict friends of the beet sugar industry. Of course both Louisi ana and Texas cane growers will be heavy losers by the adoption of tlie pro- Mr. iinox Win Blflit. The temporary injunction ordered by Judge Groascup of tlie United States circuit court at Chicago recently against the meat packers' combination, overruling the demurrer of its counsel, has been universally and justly accept- j ed as a signal triumph for Attorney j General Knox and as a general proof that the ordinary powers of the law are sufficient In dealing with these combinations to prohibit and punish combinations in trade If their powers are used with skill and employed with energy.—Philadelphia Press. Developed by Protection. The United States produces nine tenths of the world's cotton, one-half its coal and copper and one-fourth its iron. These industries have been de veloped by the protective policy.—Cam den (N. J.) Post-Telegram. OUT OF SORTS. W: : - li a Task. Nerves all gone Generally V7eak. Easily Tired. Read the Following Know the Remedy. Mrs. A. Noble of No. 315, Catherine Pi Bloomsburg. 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