The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1869-12-24
THE PARsEE LETTERS.
To Horace Greeley.

IqueAttohS i utu uSk OF you were AWAY
either directly other peoples, or insti
gated by them; / must now. pure ant
simple, ask little explanation of yol
on my own account.
In your admirable Essay No. Is
you sweetly show the triumph of pro
tecti on, which led to the success o
producing beet-root sugar in Germany
and France. OF course people vii
dispute and dissent thus, for instance
does the energetic editor sahib of I'm
Won Id deay the truth of your deduc
tions, and:show that the success is ow.
ing to modern chemistry and chea1
machinery, and actually tells us thai
protection retarded the growth of beet
root sugar i'll Europe.
have nothing to do with that por
| ton of the sugar business. But how
am l to explain the following statement
in your essay, No. Is, viz:
1T is not the aim of these essays te
comInend new branches of industry
to ia vor, nor to insist that these may
be pursued to greater profit than 9th.
ers. Our close proximity to the trop-
ical isles in which the cane grows with
greatest luxuriance, seldom needing to
be re planted, and the strong. probabil-
| ity that some, il not all, of those is
lands may soon choose to- unite their
desti nies with our own, may seem to
render questionable the wisdom oi
inyigorating the prosecution of beet
culture ON our soil with nm eye to the
production therefrom of sugar -
Why thus yourself behead the ar
gumfn mt already disembowelled by the
learned editor of THE WORLD? What
/ Is the use of writing two long essays
on tile beneficial result of protection
On beet-roos sugar, to show thereby
that II is absolutely necessary to have
u conqueror for n ruler, 10 kill a mil
| lion df people, to shut up a continen;
against the intruders of commerce -
that itll this Is essential To the happi-
ness pf people IN general, and the
raising of beet-root sugar in particular
when you plainly come to the above
conclusion?
Th e rule that YOU lay down in this
remarkable statement will and does
Iapply TO every branch OF manufactures
You zee, o Greeley, sahib, / am a
merchant as we'll as mn admirer oi
your profound political economy and
kno Is that the relations of beet-rooi
sugar making in this country 10 cane
made sugar IN the West India Islands,
is very far more fayorable than the re-
lation of American pig-iron to Scotch
or Welsh pig-iron.
Why, therefore, should not that rule
apply to this article as well as to sugar
Of course the annexation of England
to the United States IS somewhat re-
motel' than the annexation of the West
India Islands; but even the latter is re.
mote, and that is hardly a good argu.
ment against the pig-iron. Why then
did you raise such sweet expectations
to be dit last embittcred by your conclu-
sionsP
Now, l am anxious to have an ex-
planation for your own interest. You
are ccused of being the indulgeni
father TO the monopoliziBg mauufac-
turels of this country. 1t is said nei-
thcr the distress of the multitude nol
the tyranny of favored class can
make you swerYe from that fixed idea
on this subject.
| Again. Your opponents affirm that
you n re no friend to agriculture in.
deed, many tell me you are direct
enemy to the farmers. I, AderseS
Curiosibhoy, Parsce merchant and
Fire-sorshipper, have stoutly refused
to believe aly such assertion. But
must say the above conclusion is very
much against you.
Surely, if this country can raise
anything, it is beet-root sugar. Yor
have lands cheap-yirgin lands, too.-
/ The waste of the beet-root fattens cat
tie and pigs, for which you have /
market. You import now nearly sey
Ienty-two million dollars worth of raw
sugar and molasses, and hare therefor
q homie market three times as great as III
iron tradc why then are you agains
it, unless you are afraid of what tn,
energetic editor sahib of The WoRLl
said is essential to success, viz, cheal
iron, cheap fuel, and cheap clothing
and necessaries for the workman, which
would make breach in our present tar
Tiff? L also am grieyed to see that, fa
from admitting that the present dis
tress of the great West is the dimin
Iished purchasing power of their pro
I duce, you fatty tell him either as
/ taunt or as a comfort, know no
which
''Of course, we know that our variou
and heavy debts, national, State, coun
I ty, city, township, &C., incurred sine
1859 for the preservation of the Union
our new pension list, &C., are callini
on our people for some three or fou
| hundred millions per annum, which
probably tenth of their annual pre-
r duct. Of course, the farmers hare
: shoulder part Of this load as sceU q
the rest O ats.
r Surely il raising beet-root suga
give them an article which wi
= have a greater purchasing power tina
r the corn or wheat does, why do yo
s discourage it? My old partner, Raui
r tamje, who is great political econc
mist himself, always said that true pr
: litical economy has no step-childre1
r But, of course, If these farmers j
t your country are your step-chiidre'
and it looks very much like it, prayil
e form me of it unequiyocally.
e have too much good sense to il
terfere in family affairs. But it is ne
essary that you should say SO plainl
II and not let the world believe you lol
r them as well as your own flesh an
e blood, while in private you squee'