The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-11-11
Beet Sugar in Maine.

This experiment. is of extreme Importance
to the people Of our State, who must be ben
Gifted bv the introduction of great new
industry. Our Legislature perceived this
opportunity of adding to the public wealth
1t offered wise, limited bounty to encour-
age it, to the extent of one cent per pound
for the first seven hundred thousand pounds
of sugar manufactured each season, by a
company to be organized here, and from
beets raised in Maine. This annual bounty
is seven thousand dollars.
The wisdom of this act became apparent
at once. Capital and personal service from
other States were enlisted and combined
with home capital and talent of the first
rank. An investment has been made OF
over fifty thousand dollars in the costly ma
chinery which has been found necessary in
the great beet sugar works of Germany
and France This has been made to suffice
for the time, only by taking advantage OF a
much larger previous investment In the
buildings and equipments of our own great
refneries At least fifty thousand dollars
more tas been already paid, or will be paid
within the next few weeks, to the farmers
far and near A large additional carrying
trade has been added to the sources of reve-
nue. of all our railroads. Wages to the ex-
tent Of nearly four hundred dollars day
are disbursed to the laboring population of
Portland The success Of this enterprise
has the cordial good wishes of our people.
1t has to meet and overcome the difficulties
attending every great industrial effort, in
creased by the special cost which has to be
paid for an experience. All that skill, capi-
ial and devotion of time and thought can do
is being done, to establish this new source
of wealth for Maine.
Providence helps with a rising sugar mar
ket and consequent eager demand for raw
sugar and melado by the great refneries Of
Boston and New York. The Beet Sugar
Company, with their still limited equipment
for profitable refining, are for the time,
availing themselves of this opportunity to
bring in capital from other States in aid of
our enterprise, by selling the raw products
to these eager competitors, and so post
poning an addition to their already large in
vestment till after they shall have thus
strengthened their position. Success to
beet sugar in Maine.
THE Springfield Republican is no lover of
Mr.. Blaine In 1876 it fought him bitterly,
and will undoubtedly be in arms against
him in 1890 But this is what it has to say
now: ''By all odds the ablest speaker Oh
the Republican stump in the country is Mr..
Blaine. His recent speech at Cooper Insti-
tute in New York as intrinsically more in
teresting, more piquantly put, and in every
way more polite than either Evarts's OF
Sherman's. Blaine CALLED no tender spots
in the party, and devoted but few words to
the South. He did not lash the temper OF
the Southern people, but the conduct OF the
Democratic majority in Congress. Even in
literary quality, his Grafton is of a high
character with an occasional anecdote from
history or letters, brought in deftly by SEN
tence or two and without lumber, a perfec-
ton of oratory which perhaps comes from
incessant speaking. His speech was mainly
financial, the same arguments with which
h. has canvassed Maine and Ohio, and al
though they were in a certain light a misfit
for New York, yet they placed him in a
much better attitude before the people than
the speeches of Sherman and Evarts on that
platform. and entertained his audience
vastly. All through the campaign Blaine
has been the lion of the day. He was the
hero of the stump i'll Ohio and every West
ern State, and his popularity in New York
is astonishing