The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-10-09
SUGAR CULTURE.

A country, or section ofcountry, that has
but one resource upon which it can rely for
an income, for commercial prosperity, or
even for mere livelihood, is indeed In de-
plorable condition, and the country or sec
ton ofcountry, by parity ofreasonlng, that
has the greatest of resources for these ends,
that i, income or livelihood for its people,
commercial greatness, is most blessed, is most
independent. Now our good state Of Texas
is supersbundautly provided in tho way of
reaour es. She has her cotton and WOODEN
products, her corn and wheat and oats and
barley and rye and buckwbeat and potatoes
and fruits and vegetables of all the varieties,
her horses and hogs and cattle aud goats,
her timber and lumber and hides, her
iron ore and precious minerals and coal, her
man factories and her railroads, etc, but
she has greater than all these, whom it is
fully developed and brought to
perfection, her sugar culture. Take
away from state, from any gsog-
raphlcal or political subdivision of the
universe, agricultural prosperity and success,
and you bring upon il absolute ruin. Every
thing else stands still. There may be rail-
roads, but no trains will pass over them;
there may be manufactures without end, but
no hum Of machinery will be heard, no swift
moving fingers Of operatives be seen. There
may be mercantile houses, great and small,
but the spiders will spin their webs from the
shelves and the dust Of disuse accumulate on
their counters, while the hinges of
tho doors will grow rusty for
want Of opening. There may be nNi-
gable streams, but the paddle wheels
of no steam vessel will ever disturb their
waters, no sailing YES ell will float upon their
placid bosoms. The condition Of affairs
would be something like that depicted by
Byron in his poem on Darkness; " "Tho
blind and blackened earth" would swing ain
tho moonless air and all would be dark
ness" Sailing vessels would lay without a
tremor upon the pulseless ocean and the rot
ting masts would fall into the still waters,
making no plash. Hopeless men and women,
gaunt with hunger, fearful to behold with
the ingrown expression of dread and horror
on their faces, would gather around the dying
embers of smouldering cities they had
burned for u borrowed light, by which to be-
hold their own ghastliness and beholding,
had swooned or fed aG'rightcd away, till
all were dead save one lingering wretch
and his faithful dog, and when he, too, died,
then, with wall of WOO that had no echo in
the cavernous night, the dog found light on
the shores of tho hereafter, and tho eyeless
earth sobbed out its weary cxistenc, with the
heart throbs of an anguish that made etor-
nifty weep, Then, if without agricultural
success and pleniilulness country is worse
than nought, remember Irelaud), with these
she is great indeed. Europe now has to de-
pend IN great measure upon the beet sugar
crop, for the supply of sugar from the cane
from all sources throughout the world is not
equal to the demand, and Europe ekes out
that supply by raising beets and making
sugar thereirom. A correspondent of tho
New Orleans Times, in the issue of
that paper of the 9th inst, has tho
following to say Of The products of beet
sugar in Europe. "According to tho first es.
innate of the next beet'sugar crop of Cont
mental Europe, which may be considered as
reliable, as many years of Intelligent expert
enco can mako it, the result, from present APP
poarances, will compare iavorably with the
tun ,,rnrad;n mn crnNo as IOllnuys,