National Republican., 1886-12-06
Another Trlumph-America Ahead.

When, on the 10th OF June last, the entire
Iron industry Of the country, especially
our machine builders, were assailed by the
free traders in the Senate debate on the
appropriation for the purchase Of machinery
for government sugarmaking experiments
In the application Of the diffusion process
to American sugar cane, Senator Warner
Miller took leading part In defense OF the
assailed industry.
II was claimed by the free trade advocate
Of the foreign machine builders that "lt
would be idle to suppose that american
mechanics, although skillful and Intelligent,
could hope to produce cane sugar.making
machinery Of the same excellence as that
made in the machine shops of Europe"
Senator Warner Miller, on the other hand,
argued and proved beyond controversy
that, to quote his own worlds "Amerlcan
machinery for cane sugar making is far bet
ter than any which has been produced In
Europe or elsewhere" and reported from
the committee on agriculture Of which he
Is chairman, an amendment requiring all
machinery purchased under the provisions
OF the act then under consideration to be
"built In the United States wholly Of do
nestle MATERIAL" or in other words to be
built at our own machine shops, by Amer.
lean mechanics, and of American iron. His
amendment was, after full discussion,
adopted in the Senate by a vote of thirty
two to twelve. With full Senate the ma.
jority would have been even more decisive
A modification was, however, inserted In
conference committee, by unanimous con-
sent, permitting the purchase Of ten thou
sand dollars worth Of foreign machinery, so
that both kinds could be tried side by side.
The trial Of the American and European
cane sugarmaking machinery took place at
Fort Scott, Kan, during the season just
closed, In the presence Of aworld's congress
of sugar makers. Delegates representing
sugar interests in North and South Amer.
icn, West Indies, Europe, Asia, and Africa
were present. Even little Chill sent dele
gate, and so did far-away French Algeria,
The Louisiana Sugar Planters Association
sent delegation.
The best American and European ma
chinery was put in operation, and both had
n fair trial. The Fort Scott correspondent
Of the New Orleans PicdWutc gives in his
letter published on the 18th OF September
on account Of the entire establishment, and
n resume in the following words:
Take 1t all and all, this sugar house, II not
the largest, is surely the most convenient and
decidedly tho most perfect yet erected or in
existence within the United States.
The Fort Scott correspondent of the ST..
Louis Rural World gives the following &C.
count Of the American machinery built by
the Pusey & Jones Company, Of Whining.
ton, Del:
The cutters and difTusers arc meeting all cx-
| pcctntlons, the former furnishing constant
supply Of Clipped cane, irhde hc digiBers lcdre
srdrcoy a trace Of stcd IN exhausted chips or
| iCdttC udtCr.
| In regard TO the work done by the Hal
lesChe MaChimfabuck, German machinery,
the same correspondent makes, in the same
issue Of the st. Louis Rural World, state
mcnt IN these words;
The cOIbonic acid pump, huge affair OF
| GCumau manufacture, failed to give the nee
csRry yo.uIn, Of gas for rapid carbonatatlon,
| reducing the work OF the factory one-half, or
to the use of one cutter.
! According to later account "this huge
German pump which cost several thou
sand dollars, was finally thrown aside and
a little American pump, built in New York,
and which cost less than the freight on the
German pump across the Atlantic, wa:
substituted, after which there was nc
trouble All accounts agree that the
triumph of American machinery was com
plete. The Fort Scott correspondent Of
the st. Louis GlObe-DemocrGt, in his report
published Oct. 80, says:
There is but one verdict, to wit: That II Is
perfect ana gives forth results with the Ger.
tainty of clock work OF course, 1t Is moi
claimed but that experience may suggest slight
improvements, but that the applications OF
mechanical principles in It's construction has
been ski!iiuliy done no one denies.
The writer's Of these reports are skilled in
everything pertaining to cane sugar max
ing, and 1t will be seen that they all agree
that the triumph of our American mechau
les has been complete.