The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-03-13
SUGAR IN KANSAS.

Those of our readers who have
been disposed to under-rate the value
Of the sorghum crop to such an eX-
tent that the majority Of them did
not seem to even think it worth their
while to report it to the census gath
erers in 1880, Notwithstanding the
apparent fact that ours was the great
est sorghum producing State in the
Union,) will be surprised to learn
that this product is rapidly coming
to the front in Kansas, and promis-
ing greater profits to her farmers
than all their corn fields and hog
pens.
While from many parts of Missis-
sippi comes cry for the repeal of
the duty on sugar, the sorghsn rails
ers Of Kansas, embracing a large
proportion of her farmers, have de-
termined to enter upon sugar pro-
duction themselves and therefore
protest against disturbing a tariff
from which they hope to derive great
gains. Here in Mississippi the sor-
ghum cane is almost an indigenous
growth, and if Kansas has learned
the art of crystalizing its syrup into
sugar we may soon expect to see that
industry flourish here in our midst,
and Mississippi become the peer of
Louisiana or even of Cuba or the
Sandwich Islands, in sugar produce
ton.
We favor a protective tariff for
everything our farmers can make,and
that can be undersold by foreign
importations, hence we cheerfully
publish with full endorsement the
following circular sent by the Cane
Growers Association of Kansas to
the Senators and Representatives in
Congress:
TOPEKA, KANSAS, Feb. Is, 1854.
SIR;-ln pursuance of duty en-
joined upon us as officers of the Third
Annual Convention Of Kansas Cane
Growers Association, held at Topeka
this day, we have the honor to for
ward to your address a copy Of the
resolutions following, which were
unanimously adopted by said Con-
vention, and respectfully ask your
favorable consideration thereof.
X. X. Stout, President.
w. A. PEPPER, Secy.
Be it Resolved, That we, the as
sembled cane-growers Of Kansas,
having only after few years. exis-
tence, produced this year, from 49,
221 acres, 1859 tons Of cane, re-
sulting in $4,000 gallons Of syrup
valued at 52,0S3,O0O, do hereby most
respectfully, but most earnestly, pc
tition our representatives at Wash
ington, not to tamper with or suffer
any further reduction Of the tariff on
sugar, nor to entertain any further
propositions Of reciprocity treaties
that would have the effect Of import
ing free foreign sugar. Two of our
large factories have been able to
produce sugar in large quantities this
year, and unless this new industry be
protected and fostered by the general
government, it may be crushed in its
infancy. We take the liberty to
point to the beet sugar industry of
Europe, that has grown to immense
proportions by the fostering care of
respective governments, producing
to-day two million tons annually.
That the encouragement offered by
the French government in appropri-
atmg large sums for experiments in
producing sugar FROM the beet root,
has resulted in the firm establishment
Of one Of the leading industries of
shat country, giving employment to
millions Of persons, and now return
ing to the government a revenue OF
over two millions of dollars per an
mum. We also point to the fact that
there is no other industry which
promises such a large benefit to our
people; for, in case gifts development,
one hundred million dollars will be
distributed amongst them and our
farmers, which otherwise would be
sent abroad for this one commodity,
to countries where slave labor is
used. There is no other article on
which import duty is levied by the
tariff, where the burden is levied SO
uniformly upon the entire people, not
amounting to more than seventy five
cents per eopita annually, and that
the consumption Of sugar in the Uni
ted Statea,is one fourth Of all the SUI
oar known to commerce in the world,
and that, with the continued increase
of demand, in less than fifty years,
the demand will be greater than the
present entire production known to
commerce, and that the area of land
suitable for the cultivation Of south
ern cane being limited, it has become