, 1884-10-18
THE &c AVIS, "
Stristiansts8, 81, groiz,
Saturday, 18th October, 1884.

Will ~ lcQuCcU ~ IdN IL DcIOIC LIS ILtJCSUl
and the Ministry, will be found in another
column.
The document states very fairly and
ably the desperate position in which the
Over~prOductiOn of beet root sugar has
placed the planters Of the West Indies,
and mentions with clearneSS the special
difficulties Of ST. CrOiX. So far we cordial
~ approve it, but with clause 6 we cannot
at all agree. No nation would do what is
there suggested. Our correspondent
Lawyer Lemming, puts the whole matter
in Il very clear light, and makes some
excellent suggestions, which we hope will
be taken in good part and put to practical
use. 1t IS not too late to recaSt the Memo
rial, much of it could stand as it is, and
like the recent address from the Council
to His Majesty on another occasion, it
should of course be drawn both in Danish
and English,
Lawyer Jennings suggestion is to ask
that our cane sugar, and with it the Danish
beet sugar, be put III the same position in the
DaniSliMark as The bounty. fed SugarotGer
many, by making a reduction in the duties,
import and excise respectively, equivalent
TO the bounty. This is what the English
colonies have for several years urged their
Home Government to do in another form,
that is by putting a "c0untervailing duty
on beet sugars. They could not ask for
what our correspondent describes, simply
because all sugars, both colonial and
foreign, enter Great Britain duty free;
they have therefore asked for a counter
vailing duty, which, however, has been
definitely refused. Free trade principles
have such firm root in England that the
Government will not move from them. The
colonies have alW avs felt this as a sore point
and many years ago made it a ground of
constant complaint that the slaye-grown
sugars of Cuba and Brazil were allowed to
enter the home market on the same footing
a. the sugars from the Colonies. AL
though they thus, perhaps rather artful-
~, appealed to the philanthropy of
their fellow cOuntrymeu at home, they
always failed, and at last had to rest con
tent with seeing foreign sugar, wherever
grown, admitted on the same conditions rs
their own. No English |colonist would
hope to move his Government from this
1OiAC1 "AA AOllOC dAtiIOAISNU tiG NUMEROUS
petitions sent in we never see it suggested
that a tax should be put upon foreign
sugar so us to give a preference to British
Colonial sugar. The utmost that they
have asked for is that an import duty
shall be put on German ana French beet
sugars equal to the b)unties given to the
growers by their respective Governments.
This is not an unreasonable thing to ask,
and it is jhst this, in a different form, that
our correspondent suggests that we should
ask for our colonial and home grown
sugars. It may be that the Danish
Government and People will feel libe-
rally disposed towards us and grant this
boon. Suppose however that it is granted,
we must not reckon on getting the whole
difference. III the present state Of things
the American market seems to offer aslight
advantage. at any ate most of our sugar
goes to that market, and the difference in
favour of selecting that market would of
course remain, and have to be deducted
from the gains which might arise from
any reduction of duty in Denmark.
There is also the question of how the
DANISH market would be affected by
larger shipments from here; but this
matter requires more knowledge of de
tails than we possess, and we must
leave it. We trust, however, thai the
memorial in an amended form will be
forwarded, and that it may result in
h0n0fH in 5000 C--u