New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-03-28

imported from forcigr countries. Thas TAI Tie
T,m.s had only biun6ered. - sny cce sight have
4. 60 who happened to be ignorant Of sts facts.
Nov Il does worse than blunder. Hear it,
eve stated ttst beet sugar In France Is highly PRE-
,sctsd sc.irst foreign sugar. NO, said THy TRIB.
usy IL Hourishes DOW without protecaoa IL and the
ssnsar from the French colonies, Guadalupe, MAJ
Unique and The Isle de bou'9on s eo equS .er%s
1hi, |. what we have veusured to call gue1d<. We
.naced Inst beet sugar is protected Against toregs
.nrot,t;or IN il NOT. replies The TRIBusE, oecsuse
Coloaial sugar h admitted on precisely the same
footing ro,.
former article before putting your foot In IL s''er
III a desperate fsshion Just see, now, whst you
did say:
"rnop examination Of any good Preach dictionary,
Tpy TRIBrsE will find that there arc ABOUT nVo sly
in one dollar that klogrsmme Is ss near As poes9o
two nonnds three ounces, and thst Consequently me
lannon's beetroot sugar protected against Gil tore'gu
sugar by a5solute prohibition, and against frenes 20
LosT.L sugar BY the very SMART OF rom seseh
dollars trery tco HUNDRED drd segenly-nns
This should be 30 pounds=lOV kuogrammes
This was simply ignorance on the 2oth-I@
Times bad forgotten, or had never known, the TACT
that heavier duty il charged BY the French Gov
ernmeut on home. grown Beet Sugar than on i'm
ported Colonial Sugar, though France has an ample
area Of the best growing soil on earth, NOT only
in both the East and West Indies, but in South
America. 1t was the utter incapaci'y Of the Beet
to sustain a sugar-growing competition with the
Cane that The Times asserted. 1t March GOTH
affirmed that the Beet culture was set on foot By
Napoleon I.
mot because either the climate or the soil was
supposed 10 be peculiarly adsped to it. or becsuse
Il r x.sf.
ing successfully Nth the cane sugar Of ne tropics,
but because the Emperor foresaw that the Engsh su
premacy the ocean would speedily put an end to all
inportations from either The West or East iadles
-" The beet.r0ot sugar experiment IN France
is total failure. 1t has been protected from the very
beginning is protected highly at this moment, and, II
that protection removed could not exist for one
hour" Beet Sugar making is 90 hollow and worthless
sham devised BY an interruptions military dictator a.
q measure of safety in war which inperDed the ns-
tional existence and which The ports rere opeaed to
tropical sugar, could not erist for one month
There are three ways of behaving in such cat
egory as The Times has blundered into. The
manly ore Of backing square out and acknowledging
the COIN; 2. The silent dodge, which The Times had
at first apparently resolved to try; and 3. That Of
clustering and attempting to befog the question by
trivial or immaterial issues. This last The Times
attempts, with inevitable i'll success talking OF its
own Obvious bluneer Of calling the kilogramme u
pounds when it is really less than 2f, and our as
palpable mistake in speaking of the kilogramme as
so much when We meant the hundred kogramues.
These accidental oversishts affected the question at
issue rot hair; and its talk of r.fned Sugar as
prohibited in France is equally inconsequent. No
sugar growing country desires TO export her staple
to France in refred state, and the admission Of
refled at the same rate with equal values Of raw
Sugar wsuld have no effect whatever on the Beet
culture of France. The French Government taxes
Sugar for revenue rather than for protection. And
when The Times again undertakes to set us right
on an economic question we trust it will not begin
with "More Fallacy and Fiction" and go on ia a
like superciuOus spirit throughout, uohl it shall
have carefully possessed itself Of all the material
fats