Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1842-06-04

now produced from foreign inportationH, II
manufactured by Louisiana or from louisa
M sugar, would require the same quantity OF
fuel, paper, Irvine, MALE. copper"o ORR, castings,
pottery, machinery, &c, &c, as are now used
III the refining OF the same quantity Ut goods,
a d for transportation to the consumers
throughout the Union would need exactly TIE
same power Of transportation.
That were the labor of Louisiana effect
ually guarded against by foreign labor,
the large sugar planters would coon refine
such portion Of their sugars AZ might be re-
CURED for the consumption Of the United
States.
That there ia already a large Estate which
for the last four years has been turning out
about 100000 lbs. annually of refined goods,
equal to any manufacture from foreign raw
sugars.
That nothing but the Frustrated condition
Of our sugar planters, in consequence Of the
operation Of the Act of 1893, has prevented
the following the example thus cited !; the
copper works and machinery requiring an
outlay Of at least $4,000.
That the number Of Sugar Estates In 1928
amounted TO. 3G5
That from 1928 to 1883 the number
gradually Increased to s9l
That under the Tariff Of 1916, the State Of
louisiana was already srpplyin ing one hall Of
the sugars required for the consumption Of the
United STATES, and WAS bidding fair sooa 10
meet the entire consumption.
That before the last $50 Estates could te
brought into full operation. the Tariff Of 1893
was adopted.-That 1855 Estates have already
been compelled to abandon their Sugar Works
under the effects Of this Act, thai is further
action cannot fail TO annihi]ate this important
branch of national industry. That there is
o .brarch nf industry in our country which
is not directly or indirectly benefited by a
tar fjudicious'v laid.
That at a low estimate, the 525 Es'a'es vet
in operation. expend annually S2,000,OD0, fur
repairs OF SIS engines and mills, aud for
Hats, 1mpism',s of Husb'dry TIE Pro-
Wheels, Nails, Pork: Whisksy E Emr y
Horses and cattle, ETC., Carts. nm"
Shoes. Corn, Flour, Fish. Hoops, r.sr"
and for oyersesrs and engineers. '"'e''
- " IL bIch tihl jDSttdstlCP, InBDH-
tacturers, and agriculturis,s. throughout the
Union, are directly interested to the amount,
OF two millions Of dollars Fer ann.m in the
sugar industry.
Tint the last crop o. al Ar is estimated al
10000 hhds. or about 30 millions Of pounds,
and a millions of gallons Of molasses-shat
prices this year are hardly Averaging 8 cents
for sugars and ~ cents for molasses, which,
represent a gross amour of $2,sSn.O00: of
which rs above stated, $4,000, 900 are re-
CURED for the working expenses during the
year and 20 to other branches Of industry,
whilst the pronrietors will only receive $780,
m0-heing l69-'W per cent Oh the capital
invested Of $4,000 900.
Such has been the result of the STRUGGLE
brought on by the Compromise Bill, between
foreign and home labor "A home product of
a necessary Of life, hardly reaching so per
ceni~of the annual consumption of tue coun-
try thus finds itself debased by foreign labor
nearly 10 per cent. below its cost Of nroduc.
No other part of the world oHeIa
an anomaly /! and what is the conseauncc of
such a melancholy state of things! Bmple;e
arrangement in the equilibrium bet3een snp-
ply and demand and perturbation in every
branch OF industry. from the wealthiest pro-
prtetor down to the humblest mechanic and
laborer-thus it is that the sugar planter be-
ing of necessity compelled TO raise the provi-
slons he was wont to draw from the Western
states, those States find themselves suddenly
of a market for the surplus provi-
SION, whereby their ordinary ANIMAL supply
the wants of CONSUMPTION. debase-
ment naturally ensues. which is now exem-
phfed in our market to a frightful extent.
Thus il Is also. that as our sugar works are
abandoned, extra production carries debase-
ment to cotton, rice, and in fine to every arti-
Gle TO which are transferred the working pow
err of the abandoned canefelds ; for no large
can be destroyed in a country with.
producing depreciation in every other
of industry in the same country, and
perturbation and distress throughout the
nation.
That on the subject Of protecting the labor
OF our own people, Thomas Jefferson SAYS in
his letter to. VIM. Simpson, ESQ. dated 1877
(Niies Register Vol. XT-Pase 401):
Il have read with grea. satisfaction the
pamphlet yaak were so kind as 10
send me, and synpathisc with every Line of
it | was once a doubter whetherA the labor Of
the caltiyator, aided by the creative power
the earth itself, could not produce more
than that of the manufacturer alone and un.
assiste by the dead subject on which he acted,
IN other words whether the more he could
bring into action of the energies Of our bound.
less territory in addition to. the labor of our
citizens. the more would not be our gain.
the invention of the later times, by labor
saving machines. do now as much for the
manufacturer as the earth for the cuItiyator-
Experience too has proved that mine was but
half the H11pStIEp . the nt1or half e uxL atbar
dollars and cents are to be weighed in the
scale against real independence, the question
is then solved, at least as far al respects our
own wants.
Il much fear the effects on our infant essa-
Adjustments of the policy avowed by Mr..
brougham and qs1oted in the nanphlet.-Indi-
vidaal British merchants may loose by the
Immense importations, but British com.
merce and Manufactures in the mass wills
gain by beating down the competition Of ours
in our own markets"
h the action of foreign sugars upon our
horne sugars, for the last three or four years
has been precisely the same as that coHtem-
plated by Mr.. B~rougham and above quoted
down the competition Of our own la
Dor in our own markets"
That a revenue is to be raised to carry on
our government, the general welfare requires
that such revenue should be so arranged as
to afford enconragemenff to manufactures and
agriculture, that our home labor may no. be
debased by foreign labor, that in the words of
{ homas Jefferson, we may be treaty. indie
pendent"
That by effec,ua'ly guarding our sugars
against debssement by foreign labor, yonr no.
Eorable bodies viii not only protect that
Of industry, but also as before said,
Rice and all other agricultural pIo-