Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1853-09-28

IL TINS TAX on SuGAR. Few we suppose know bow
/ much the sugaFtax costs the nation Those who de-
sire to understand this subject we refer to an article
in the ST. Louis Daily Democrat, extracted INTO tins
obtaining some important Statistics They
will see that in i've years the sugar tax paid by the
nation has amounted to thirty millions of dollars,
besides what we have paid to the planters IN
the United States in the shape of high prices.
This is altogether too extravagant price to pay
for forcing the culture of the sugarcane in climates
not fully suited to its growth For rpening the juices
of that plant in perfection the tropics the proper
place. Within the belt that bounds the road of the
in its journey to the north and south of the equa
tor the cane plant finds its most congenial tepera-
ture, and sugar is produced at the smallest cost AT
very few degrees to the north of that limit at least
in North America, the Interruptions of cold are too
general and frequent for the complete maturity OF the
plant in In plants, in some parts
of the same plant the crushed out of the stalk
yet crude and give the manufacturer trouble IN
clarifying and crystaizing the sugar Besides this
they affect its quality somewhat and, IN the OPINION
| of some, render it less wholesome.
1t is hardly worth while, however, to tax the ma
ton seven millions year, to defray the expense of
producing sugar few degrees of latitude further
north than the limits assigned by nature for the prof
liable cultivation of the 1t would be much bet
ter to pay the sugar planters of Louisiana premium
for giving up the culture of the sugar cane and ap-
plying themselves to other branch of agricul-
ture We taxed thirty or forty dollars on hogs
head of sugar. according to the estimate of the ST.
Louis Democrat Surely, mis- ht make better terms
with the sugar planters of Louisiana than this If we
could compound the matter with tnem.
In all our large towns, both at the North and the
South, make great of the ice which in winter
is formed in the lakes of the northern part of the
Union. If could pass protective laws for the pro-
ducts of the South the southern cities might be sup
piled with ice from the streams and lakes in Mary
land Virginia and Kentucky. The thin plates Office
formed the surface of these, during cold night,
might, by due and labor, be taken off and piled
on each other, we have seen done on the rivers
and canals of Italy, and in this way considerable
provision of ice might be made. Everybody would
that such policy this would be folly-but the
folly is greater than guilty of in the at
tempt force the culture of the in climates to
which it is not we'll suited. In both cases. we ought
to see that decline to avail ourselves of the boun-
ty of nature and that attempt to substitute for
her processes which give the largest quantity OF
products at theleast cost imperfect and expensive
method of our own.
But who pays this tax? Not the rich for the use
of sugar is general that it may be almost re-
garded as necessary of life. The poor family con-
sumes in this country scarcely less than the rich
Sugar tiavors large part of the food of people in
every condition. 1t is consumed by the sick, it is
the aboring class who pay these seven millions which
the people taxed to convert cotton plantations
into sugar estates. 1t is they who give the sugar
planter premium of thirty dollars on every hogs
head of sugar he produces
We hope this questionwill occupy the attention of
Congress at its next session. No doubt strong eff
fort will be made prevent anything being done to
relieve the people of this burden; but Congress
could hardly do popular act than to take off
the sugar tax. N. Y Erening Post.