Evening journal., 1889-01-15

count OF the Fort Scott Sugar Company
would stand--if there was any Fort
Scott Sugar Company-as below, admit
ting the claim of the free traders that
the tariff imposes tax on the consumers
at least equal to its amount, which is
probably true where the duty is not great
enough to increase production:
$4,000 pounds Of sugar at 2.6s cents. .sls.400
100000 gallons of syrup at IA cents. 1900
stare oounty-nothing ..... ....-.....-..
$1,000
or difference Of sos. 1000. II the Senate
bin should pass, the $45 900 receivable
from sugar and syrup, neglecting the
receipts from state bounty, would be re.
duced to $50. 200, decrease of nearly 90
per cent.
1t may be confidently asserted. that n
decrease of 20 per cent. would eryeat tba
development Of, If 1t did not entirely de.
stroy the sorghum sugar industry IN this
country This is said with fun cooni.
zance of Mr.. Swenson's estimate that
there is profit Of over 70 per cent in
the manufacture as at present conducted
based on an expense in the sugar mill of
81 per ton of cane
In addition to che Fort Scott works
there were three others IN the state ~
hansas-viz. to Topeka. Conway Springs
and Douglas. SO the industry is started
at four points, and If the Kansas farmers
prove too luxurious in their tastes 70
consume fine grained sugar of light color
without refining, fourreineries are likely
70 re established as near as possible 10
both producers and consumers But suc.
eessful sugar making will neither stop ut
that point IN Kansas nor be confined 70
Kansas. 1t will extend over an TINT belt
IN which sorghum growing is possible
adding TO the resources of farmers and
the employment Of aborers, at the same
time reducing the cost Of sugar TO con
sume1s by increasing the supply and pro.
ducing that supply in the vicinity in
which It is consumed, thus saving the
cost transportation
The advocates of a reduction in the
duty now levied on sugar imported do
not think, or at least do not mention
that since 1880 the price of sugar has
been reduced all over the world to one
half of what it was, and besides That the
duty on sugar between 10 and 16 Dutch
standard was reduced by the act of
March 3. 1888, by 20 per cent, and there
IS slight reduction IN the average duty
on molasses Sugar was not classified by
the polariscope test before 1883. but If
the sugar described by Professor Sven.
son u between l6 and 20 Dutch standard
the decrease should be stated at 80 per
cent. ~
Our sugar raisers have stood up under
a fali IN price Of one-third, induced solely |
by protection and bounties in other
countries; and at the time the production |
o. beet sugar IN Europe was being encour- |
aged our legislators, having reduced the /
encouragement received from protection |
by from 20 TO 30 per cent, claim that
pioteclion IS shown to be futile as a
means 81 increasing the production OF
sugar IN TINS country. This is on a par
with the claims of the free traders that.
because President Cleveland received ana
increased vote in New York CITY.
Jersey City aud other places where the
power Of saloons Is strongest, the
.ntelilgent mechanics Of the country in
lofsed ms views on the tariff, whereas il
was an expression OF the gratitude Of
saloon Keepers for the proposed abolition
- the internal revenue tax Of S25 on
'ach. Inc only way to reduce the cost
=, =, sugar Is by increasing the production.
That may be done either here or in far.
ign countries. IL it Is done ia FOREIGN
RAAA NhA NNn PRODUCTION fr0pa
indeveloped, we will continue To send
Yearly 500, 900, 600 out of the country
or sugar, and, at the same time we viii
g at the mercy Of any foreign trust
ike the London salt trust or the Paris con.
Der trust that maybe inclined to deplete
'ur finances. At the same time. there Is
redundancy of national income. and the
political convenience of the 1000 en-.
'loyes Of the Internal Revenue Depart.
nent seems too great to permit of the re.
zeal Of those laws and the discharge az
he 4. 900 from the service OF the
ountry, let us say. If the duty on sugar
we're left as it now is, and 10 per cent Of
appropriated to be divided as a bounty
n sugar from either cane, sorghum or
eets for 1890. 90 per cent. for 1891. and
o on, till all the duty was SO ammo.
rated an equal number of men could
2 employed by the government. and
hat Is Of more Importance to the
'untry, employment to the value Of
early 500 COO, 600 would be distributed
ithout the possibility Of raising The /
ice Of suga- to the consumers. (