Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-02-24

planters Of New Orleans Jan 20. 1883, he
said
while the diffusion process obtains more
sugar il also requires more than double the
amount Of fuel 20 get it, We have found,
however, that by diffusion two pounds of
coal are required to make one pound of
sugar, while by the roller mill process only
seven tenths Of one pound is wanted that
is, if we use diffusion we have to use more
coal by the difference between two pounds
and seven -tenths Of one pound
A recent number Of the New Orleans
City Item also says
1--WE have found that by diffusion two
pounds of coal are required to make one
poond Of sugar, while by the mill process
only even-tenths of a pound is wanted
that is, if we use diffusion we have To use
more coal by the difference between two
pounds and seven tenths Of a pound. To
make il more accord with our system of
calculation we would use in diffusion be
tween ten and eleven barrels of coal to
make 900 pounds Of sugar, while by the
mill process we would only use three to
four barrels. Here is an increase Of seven
barrels Of coal per 900 pounds OF sugar.
Unless the price of sugar is advanced 10y
a combination among the reiners, or from
other causes, so as TO restrict its use, with
in ten years there will be consumed in this
country nearly or quite 1000, OOO,OOO
pounds of sugar annually. The high tariff
on sugar places it in the power Of the few
refiners, by combining, to fix the price.
The duty on refined sugar is 81 cents Il
pound The West Indies and other tropical
countries where the sugar cane has its nat
ural home, can produce sugar proiitably for
two or three cents pound. For several
years past the planters of the West Indies
have sold much Of their sugar at n lower
price than that The sugar planters Of the
! United States are, and always have been,
mostly confined 70 the state of Louisiana.
The whole number there has been estimat-
ed at about ! 1000 There are not perhaps
more than 10000 manufacturers Of cane
sugar in the United States There are
about II 900. 600 voters-one manufacturer
of cane sugar out of 400 The maple
sugar makers and the sorghum sugar max
ers are more numerous, but a large shar,
Of them do not make sugar to sell, but only
enough for the use of their families, In
Guiding every variety of sugar makers
probably not more than one-tenth of one
million or about one out of 40 voters max,
sugar to sell. The duty on sugar may ben
eft this small fraction of our population
1t is a question: however, whether the far
mers of Vermont and other states tina
make maple sugar would not he benefited
by cheap cane sugar to replace for famil,
use the maple sugar which, for its rarit,
and its fine, peculiar flavor, will always
when well made, sell for high price ON
hundred thousand is, in any case IA higl
estimate of the number of voters who cal
have any direct interest in maintaining tn
enormous annual tax of 500 OOO,OOO OF
sugar. The remaining 10000 voter
would be benefited by free sugar, or ID
times the number that it is supposed NIGH
possibly be Interested in maintaining tn
present high rate of duty.
1t appears that Texas free trade Demo
Gratis are in favor of high protective tar
ff on an article of the most common us
and necessity when they think that they
as well as the Louisiana planters, may h
specially benefited. But they will lose II
standing in the party 10y being high tart
men on question which is of far more con
sequence than that relating to any othe
article which is subject to duty. I'll
amount of duties collected ON wool, whic
! so disturbs the President is small compare
to that ON sugar. The Louisiana sugt
! planters in a last resort care more for ii
= Democratic party than for their suga
The correspondent of the Democrat Gazet
again interviews, this time on the polite
situation in Louisiana. Said Major Ha
!, kell
T. "No; | think not The planters are
Democrats and they dare not desert the
+ colors. The Republicans have nominal,
l Warmoth for governor, and his electi,
II would mean disaster. The sugar m,
r would regard his defeat greater victol
"a than any Supar tariff. y