, 1877-03-14

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the consumption, and consequent increase
in the price of sugar, which the abolition
of the bounties would cause, would find
the beet-sugar industry, under scientific
administration, prepared to meet almost
any increase in the demand and would
surprise the cane-sugar industry Com-
fortably taking q tro pical s%iesta, or indul-
ging in inter.conglatulations on the rise in
g and improved prospects.
Being convinced of the necessity for
immediate action the writer has deemed it
to be a duty, seeing that the most intense
apathy still continues, to draw attention
to the real position of affairs. These arti-
cles may be considered as an earnest of
bis being willing also to take a working
part, and it will be strange indeed if none
can be found to assist in the work. What
that action should be-what should be done
to place the cane.sugar industry more on q
level with it's rival, is q question that adj
mits of only one answer. The measures
which, in Europe, have resulted in such
startling progress must be adopted by US,
and a similar result will inevitably ensue.
Any scheme which may be proposed will
probably, after due consideration, require
some modification. The following sug-
gestions may at any rate serve the put-
pose of indicating the direction in which
amelioration is possible, even though
some similar scheme be not ultimately
adopted ~.
A clear comprehension of the object
sought 10 be attained is first necessary.
This is, broadly, the promotion Of progress
in local A7tS and indus tries. Some of the
means by which this progress may be secur-
ed are briefly as follows
(a) BY teaching the rudimentS Of physi.
cal science in the primary schools.
ny By the establishment Of an Agricul-
tural and Technical College or School.
(3 BY atfording facilities for the Techni.
cal Training of adults.
ID BY the establishment Of a model
sugar-plantatiOn ard factory.
G) BY instituting scientific research
and encouraging and assisting expert
mental Investigation, and by the or
ganization of individual effort.
It has already been remarked that no
really effective measures can be carried
out without well- organized combination. To
form a nucleus for this the best plan
would be, to establish an INDUSTRIAL
INSTITUTION under a permanent trust,
after the style of such institutions in Ger
many. ~ The writer is fully sensible
that the difficulties atten ding the organ
ization and maintenance OF such an insti-
tuition in tolerable efficiency in a tropical
colony, would be great. But the fact that
it would Materially improve the pecuniary con-
d'ttom ola great majority Of the community
induces the belief that it would not be al
lowed to share the fate of so many socie-
ties for the maintenance of which this ALL
sufficient reason did not exist. (3J
~ For some of the following ideas the
writer most gratefully acknowledges his in
debtedness to several Industrial Institutions
on the Continent. and especially in Germany.
The generous ~liberality with which every in
formation relating thereto is placed at the
disposal of all DESTROYS of promoting the difu-
sion of Technical Education should serve
more than anything else, to encourage US in
emulating such a noble example.
(2) See DR.. LeibiHg's excellent periodical
der Bilduugs-Verein" (The Improvement So.
ciety J which chronicles the e~xertions made
in Germany by the various Improvement So
cieties to develop and consolidate the advan-
ced technical instruction afforded by the Fort
BiIdunlgs Schulen (Further Improvement