Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-05-11
THE SraAR INTEREST.

Our esteemed and veteran journalistic
friend, Mr.. Willard McKinstry, senior ed
itor of the Fredonia IN. " Censor, whom
we have personally known as a newspaper
man for fifty years, has just returned from
his annual southern tour, and having visited
the sugar region on the Bayou Teche, La.
where the Foos & Barnett plantation and
works acknowledged to be the largest and
finest in Louisiana) are located, he makes
some very interesting and practical state
ments and suggestions. Mr.. McKinstry
declares that, as matter of course. the
sugar industry requires protection, and has
right to it, and says that ''if the duty
we're to be taken off, a vast amount of
property would be sacrificed, and the
whole sugar-producing territory would
suffer-" We copy with pleasure the fol-
lowing pertinent and instructive para
graphs:
1t may be asked, why should the nom
sugar producing people pay, say one cent a
pound, more for the sugar they consume
than they would If they could get it free of
duty, from Cuba? 1t may be replied that
the whole country would suffer from
the blotting out of this great industry.
These are United States, and no section
eau prosper without benefiting the others,
or suffer without corresponding detriment.
Blot out all our industries and make this
country exclusively agricultural, and in
stead of our being the most prosperous ma
ton in the world, we would be one Of the
most dependent of nations, with the
market for our productions great way of,
and our home comforts greatly di-
miniShed. Compare the south at
the present time with her
vast iron industries, her cotton mills.
her various manufacturing establishments,
all creating home market and greatly en-
hancing the value of her lands, with her
condition before the war, and we have the
solution of the question at glance. 1t Is
true that many of the bold planters are not
as well off financially as they were before
the war, but the aggregate Of wealth of
home comforts, of schools and churches. is
greatly increased, and the greatest good of
the largest number is largely multiplied.
And yet this is bat the beginning of what
is to be. Vast tracts of unoccupied land
are to be reclaimed and happy homes of
industry, with intelligent people, will fill
the plains now so desolate, and the mild
climate and fertile soil will eventually
make the south an Eden of delight.
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