Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1858-12-25
!. The B1-SuLpHlrE QuEsr1os.-Our

violence on the Bi Sulpbite question
and completely annihiIates us, body, SOU
and clothing. One whole column, and
part of another, is devoted to its refu.a'
ton Of our denial of The poisonous quail
ties of Bi-Su!pbite, the point of which
could have been contained in halfa.doz-
en- lines. In fine, the Gazette d Comet
does not advance a single point to main
tain its position, and so far from having
the argument ali on its side, it is quite
the reverse. That paper sakes one bold
stand in defence of its position by saying
that Bi-suIphite sugars ~"invite q moth
or fly to deposit its eggs in the sugar
which produces a worm that feeds upon
it," and from this circumstance, it is DEL
e%,erious TO health, and, consequently,
poisonous! Doubtful reasoning that !!
Mites are found 10 cheese--skippers in
hams and bacon and many other eata-
bles, but no one considers them poison
Gus for all that. Now for the special
edifcation Of the Gazette d Comet man,
VIC must inform him that worms will
breed in sugars that have no B~i-SuIphite
10 them. In all raw sugars they will
breed ia crushed sugars made with
bone black, q small worm is often pro-
duced. and very frequently throw ladies
into mysteries, when in slipping their
f~avorite Young Hyson or Souchone, they
discover the little crawIers floating on
the surface of that exquisite BEVERAGE
Bi-Sulphite has nothing to do with the
production Of insects and worms in SUI
gar. All sugars, without exception,
are liable to these ~anuoyances, and it
is folly TO say they are result of Bi-Sul-
phite, when they were found in sugar
before Bi-suIpbi,s was introduced.
Our contemporary grows facetious over
the killing Of Mr.. SHAsP's hogs from
drinking the skimmipgs Of kettles in
which sugar has been made with Bi-Sul-
phite. Nothing very extraordinary in
that, Mr.. PIKE! Hogs have been known
to dio, and that frequently, from drink
ing the skimmings of kettles 10 which
10 Bi-Sulphite was used. Aoy sugar
planter can tell you that. Skimmings,
when exposed for q time to the sun, will
purify, and then when drunk by hogs
Or cattle, death very often is the result.
Again the Gazette d Comet differs
with our correspondent in regard to 'egis-
Iatlng upon Bi-sa!phite if it can be
shown that it is poisonous, and here we
differ with that journal aud sustain our
correspondent. What right has a sugar
planter to infuse a poison into his sugars
to enhance their value, and yet 60 un-
whipt of justice /" When it was dis
covered tina! strychn,ue was used in
making whisky, and that it was injurious
10 It's Consumers, it was prohibited by
law, in some of the. Northern States
There is no law BY which a sugar plant-
er can be permitted to poison thousands
of his fellow beings, simply because it
puts money in hia purse" Is is = sub
ject for legal investigation, whenever
there is reason to believe that sugar
planters are using g poison in tbs manu-
~facture of their sugars. and the same
in regard to any other class Of produ-
GERS. They should not escape the law
any more than one who deliberately adj
ministers q dose of arsenic to another.
Whenever it can be shown satisfacto
rily, that 5i-SuIphite is poisonous, we
will not be behind our contemporary of
the Gazette & Comet Ia exposing the
outrage and holding up its perpetrators
to the indignation Of the public; but
until it is done, we protest to this outcry
against It's use, unless something better
aud more substantial than the mere q say
sc" of individuals is advanced to main
tain it.
Cotton is arriving freely 30 is sugar.
The g'm'et rangers appear to BE- in their
glory, though the sbowery weather eau