New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-28
the crop of 1912 100000 kilogrammes tneary 1000

distracted attention from industrial problsms and
threatened to engulf the new manufacture entirely.
al the moment" says NJ. de Dombasle ono of thu
pioneers in this industry A" when was preparingmy
ground for the production Of Beets, our armies
were in Moscow; when was engaged in making
Sugar from those Beets. factory served as the
quarters of a pulk of Cossacks.' Others had simi.
lar experiences and the efforts alarms and disas-
tiers, attending Napoeons final struggles for power
on the soil Of France gave succession Of shocks TO
the new industry which vigorous constitution was
needed to withstand.
Napoleon fell; but not till he had afforded fresh
demonstration OF the truth that peace hath her
victories not less renowned than War;" Or if less
renowned certainly more substantial and enduring.
He found time before his overthrow TO visit the
refinery at Passy Paris where the best Sugar
was in process Of preparation for table use and next
days MOnitew announced that "a great revo-
luton in the Commerce of France has been accom-
| plished 'an averment possibly premature, but
essentially true. The fields of Marengo Austeritz.
Wagram, and Borodino. no longer acknowledge the
sway of France the name of Napoleon naturally
recalls memories of the Berezina, of Leipsic Water
loo and ST. Helena rather than of his brilliant but
barren victories even the imposing Arch Of Triumph
and the lofty column in the Place Vendome awaken
thou ehts of the vanity of ambition and the cetng
illusions of power and fame; but million Of French
acres devoted in overwhelming area to the profitable
cultivation of Beets. and hundreds OF factories
annually producing more than Six Hundred Millions
of pounds of cheap and excellent Beet Sugar remain
TO attest to the present and to future generations
the genius and true glory of Napoleon l.
Beet Sugar is no longer experiment. Its success
| is now beyond question or cavil In France. as IN
Germany, it no longer needs nor seeks Protection
Lands worth 800 per acre can be mo otherwise so
la mott ion n
for Sugar though that Sugar afforded in Paris
and throughout France cheaper than Cane Sugar OF
equal excellence ever was. The expedency Of the
home production of Sugar has passed out Of the
region of controversy, far France Is concerned
But there Was time-there are those living who well
| remember it-when nothing was represented ana
regarded as preposterous than the notion that
| Sugar might be proftaby made from Beets, when
| Providence $50 it was urged had decreed that tho
Cane alone should supply it. Growing pne-apples in
| Greenland naturalzing the reindeer in Cuba, ex-
| tracing sunbeams from cucumbers. and all the
kindred SMILES which Free Traders deem so apt and
conclusive were hurled at the heads of Frenchmen
in pursuit of Sugar under difficulties; the British
press fairly frothed over with lampoons and bels
aimed at the frogeaters and their wild-goosecha
| for sweets and epgram was piled on epigram.
| whereof the point was substantially this:
Says John Bull 70 Bony. While use the Cane.
| You welcome each year 10 get Beet.
Even down to the comparatively recent period
1s37 at which DR.. Wayland gave to the public his
Elements of Political Economy, "lFree Traders still
pointed to the French Protection of her Sugar
makers as an illustrative example of the folly OF
Protection. As casting a strong side-light on the
whole subject, / quote all that the Doctor (con-
densing from The Edinburgh Rerierl has to says on
| this subject viz.
The SUGAR TRADE.-To encourage her colonies:
France lays duty of fifty francs per quintal on all
| foreign sugars. This has increased the quahtiv
made at home and at her islands. 80 far IL mas sue
3. The difference between the duty on foreign and
| the duty her own sugars amounts TO 539ioW
francs This is the bounty paid to the sugar-grO"ers
| of Martinique and at home. .
8. The quantity of sugar consumed - proDaDly less
| by one-third than it otherwise would be- England.
| with half the number of inhabitants, consumes two
aud half times as much sugar as France:
T. But il is said that by this means beet-ro0t sugar
will yet supply France at the ordinary price IL must
however, take twenty years under the present sys-
tenn order to do this. The present Protection costs
| Il 10000 per annum Suppose this TO continue for
twenty years, it will amount to f2oOOOO sterling;
the interest of which at five per cent will buy at
twO-and-a-half pence per pound 6OOOOO pounds OF
| of sugar per annum or nearly the whole annual
| amount of sugar now consumed in France.
Here is the familiar Free Trade assumption that
| all the Sugar foreign and domestic, consumed in
| France, was enhanced in price by the full amount
! of the duty charged on the importation of foreign
Sugar-an assumption refuted by million facts.
Because there was duty of fifty francs per quintal
charged on Sugar imported from other than French
colonies it is assumed that all the Sugar consumed
in France is enhanced in price to that extent; and
not merely u.s. but will continue to be. up to the
| moment when the steady growth of Home production
| shall have entirely excluded foreign Sugar! The
French are thus figured taxing themselves, during
the ensuing twenty years. less than fSOOoOOO. or
nearly very nearly what their supply OF
| Sugar would cost them under Free Trade! Such Is
the Free Trade calculation; now let us look at the
| facts.
| The Sugar Industry of FTance-which like our
| own equally immature Manufactures had received
serious setback from the sudden cessation of hos
| tilities consequent on the downfall of Napoleon
| opening our markets to the products of British
| fabrication and the French to correspond
| ing influx of tropical or Cane Sugar - soon
| recovered from the blow, and under the
guardianship of steadfast Protection, had attained
such development and strength that in the very year
aSS7 of Dr. Waylands publication of his Elements.
il was for the first time subjected to impost
else of IS francs por 100 kilogrammes, little
| a cent and half per pound we presume that even
Free Traders will not contend that hismpost de-
signed to favor the domestic beet growers or sugar
manufacturers) The first effect of this impoSt was
&c close 1866 sugar factories extirpatng the Beet In
dustry from seventeen of the forty or fifty Depart
ments in which il had taken root. But the Sugar in
| dustry had ere this acquired vitality and vigos
which enabled it to from this shock, and soon
| resume its onward march. The impOst was raised
from time to time as the growth and prosperity OF
the business were judged so decided to enable it
to bear them, until all the Protection afforded by
| duties on Imports was fully counteTvailed by the
excise on home production; and, since 1850. is