The daily gazette., 1879-01-01

merchant. In Louisiana, the grinding
must be gotten through In the shortest
time, to avoid frosts, and the country Is
yet too sparipgly populated TO furnish
enough material for new mills TO be
worked with success however, some OF
the larger planters are beginning 20 try
the system of buying canes outside OF
their own crops and grinding them 10
their mills. But this difficulty ~ we'll as
the one Of remoteness from fuel, may be
overcome. The plan IL being discussed
of building cheap wooden horse or even
steam railways to timber lands and water
courses from the interior prairie sugar
lands, thence TO centrally located sugar
houses.
The pamphlet contains extracts from
letters written by twenty-seven planters;
exhibit Of the sugar production Of the
world exhibit of the sugar parishes Of
Louisiana cost Of the various products
of sugar cane; also account Of sugar
making in the French West Indies.
Mr.. H. A. Brown, exspecial Treasury
Agent, U. g., At Saxonville, Mass. has
published several pamphlets OF interest on
the subject, from which we edit the fol-
lowing:
"Sugar frauds. including adulteration
and revenue robbery, can only be pro-
vented BY destroying the facilities for
fraud and removing existing temptations
which encourage their practice by avari-
cious and INSCRIPTIONS men. This can
injnre no honest man, nor disturb any
honest Industry or trade. Stuff or -
some call It poor mans sugar contains
from 10 20 10 or 80 per cent. Of sugar and
20 or % or 80 per cent Of foreign dirs
from which they [refinersl claim TO pro-
duce pure unadulterated sugar for con-
suiDers cheaper than can be produced
from centrifugal and other raw sugars
containing only about to per cent. Of
dirt; first, because the ''stuff" costs less
per pound; second, because the duty Is
less per pound 1t would be far better
for importers, rehners, consumers, and
oil conserned, that this 20 to 90 per cent.
Of dirt should be eliminated by the for
eign producer and be left abroad ~
fertilizer, for which use it 10 evidently
we'll adapted, rather than to be worked
up into "pure unadulterated refined su-
gar and syrup" for American citizens to
eat Consumers pay about 20 to % per
cent. less per pound for compound Of
two-thirds or less pure sugar and one
third or more miscellaneous adul-
terants, than they would pay for pure
graduated sugar made from the cleaner
grades Of imported sugars and are also
compelled to consume at least one-third
more Of such compounds than would be
required sfpure sugar to obtain the same
sweetening power The cry for low grade
sugars. to supply the poor man with
cheap sugar, is a pretense to cover mon
strous iniquities and for urging the reten-
tion of the present system of grades and
classification, whereby the revenue may
be robbed ad libitum in spite of official
precautions and the public be compelled
to pay for manufactured glucose and dirt
in sugar, in order to obtain the cheap s,i-
gar compound that these monopolists de-
mand should be manufactured tor the
benefit Of the "poor man." Industry
like that should be destroyed. The fact,
evidence and testimony are against the
continuance of the present legslized in
ducements to practice frauds in the i'm
portation of raw sugars, and in the man.
ufacture OF refined sugars. Honest refin-
ers and importers cannot compete with
rAscally trade like that and find living
profit In 1873 the yield [of cane sugar
will be the heaviest known for many
years in Louisiana. The polariscope test
encourages frauds and prevents discov.
cry"