New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-10-10
OUR SUGAR INTEREST,

| WITHOUT taxing sizes on 6 question
which can alone be settled by those
directly interested, we may say that it is
of more importance to our sugar planters
that the consumers should be satisfied
with the mode Of trade than the planters
may at first suspect. We are an i'm
patient people, apt to fancy that, as we
think at home, and compel others to
think, so the world must think or be COM
PEELED to think. It is difficult to realize
how small part of the world We really
are-how little the world is disposed to
subordinate its interests to ours, and how
the world could in fact continue to move
| on if we should determine on rigid non.
intercourse. We have seen gentlemen
propose to postpone the currency ques-
ton, and all upon national issues, to
nationalize question of Louisiana poll
tics which must end with the present
State and federal administrations, and
| have been struck with the difficulty of
New Jersey or Louisiana, with five or six
votes, forcing paramount issue on the
electoral college, composed, we believe,
of some three hundred members.
The almost vindictive tone in which
some planters have treated the effort to
compromise with the consumers has in
ducei US to ask their opinion to a par
ticular view which may not have occurred
to them. We premise that large num-
Der of Western merchants, dealers in
sugars, have united in protest against
the present tare on Louisiana packages as
excessive. They have gone SO far in some
instances as to declare a purpose to buy
other sugars, unless the present tare shall
be abated. This should not make the
producer angry. 1t is legitimate ex-
preston of opinion. At least it is an ex
preston which no local interest can pre-
vent. Let us suppose the American people
pay into the federal treasury say thirty
million dollars duty on foreign sugars.
This amount in popular consumption is
imposed for the protection of domestic
sugars. Louisiana produces one-fifteenth
part in weight of the whole quantity con-
sumed by the American people. This is
really generous concession to local
and special interest, and it is extremely
desirable to Louisiana that it shall be
continued. Suppose, however, the mer-
chants Of the West and North grow angry
with the Louisiana planters. and say, if
you will not agree to fix. the actual and
sworn tare upon your packages we will
decline to pay an indirect tax upon the
consumption of the whole people for your
exclusive benefit.
The tendencies of the United States to
extend its commerce with the tropical
countries. and even the possibility of re-
duced duties upon the commercial inter-
course betweenthese countries, renders it
perhaps prudent that we should be at least
courteous and considerate in treating the
interests of our customers.
We have noted for some time past that
Mexico with improved order has resumed
the culture of sugar. In noting the meet
ing of Mr.. Pho Bermejillo and several
planters of the State of Morelos with Mr..
Romero Vargas, Governor of Puebla, as
the representative of the planters of that
State, when it was agreed to increase the
amount Of sugar to be exported next year
to 100000 arrobas III, $50, 900 pounds),
the Iberia adds:
In giving this notice, we can not do less
than repeat that the planters of Cuernavaca
and Izucar are deserving of the highest
praise for the efforts they are making to
give value to and open Q new market for
national production which represents q
good portion OF the wealth of the country.
When we remember the peculiar adapta-
ton Of Mexico to the production Of sugar,
for which Humboldt said it was better
fitted than tho West India islands, with
the increasing access to the American
markets, we have only to add the admis-
sion Of Owhyee sugars upon terms of
reciprocity, and other possibilities, to
realize tho increase Of foreign supply.
When. therefore, we regard the possible
impotence of the American people to tax
themselves to SO large an extent to foster
an interest which is too small at present
to keep down the price of the imported
article, we deem it sufficient to warn our
planters that the. subject of tare is too
small to promote such serious conse-
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