The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1890-03-08

4 beneficial character, to dow Il vi
this enterprise. There are Severa
salient features connected Will
the sugar industry, upon which
the Central Factory system WI
have an important bearing.
First. Soilth Western Louisiana
as far west as .AbbAville and ~
far mouth rs Baton Rouge, cai
grow no plant with as much sue
cess as the sugar cane. Crstoi
can Re grown, but not 50 proitab
ly as sugar can, under Factory con
ditiOnS.
Second. The industry now
lansuishes from the artificial diet
of tariff tatfy, and the mistaken
union bet farmer and manu-
facturer.
Third The plantations, run with
Indifferent success. are worked III
most exclusively b. negro gang
labOrers.
Fourth. No inducements are
or car be offered in the sugar belt
proper, to white immigration.
Fifth. The rural population be-
lug generally large masses of
ignorant negroes, with a few white
employees on the plantations, no
support for cities and thriving
villages is furnished, which cOnse
qucntly linser along in slipsiaol
unprogressive way
Sixth. Sections Of country
inhabited by small white planters
are the thri.tiest in the sugar belt,
notwithstanding the drawbacks
I'D the way of selling
Cafe and getting it to market.
From these facts, we argue that
in a few years all the lands
capable OF growing cane Will be
I,,.."oou, anu Lnau gradually tnere
will be "a complete revolution III
the whole inpnstry. Starting from
he position that we lose fifty per
sent Of the sugar by tie present
machinery for extraction and
evaporation, and get forty seven
,er cent protection by the tariff, /
t is manifest u everybody that |
We can make IS much more, with
he tariff off, with Central Fac
cries, as we can with it on, with
ut them. This, then, viii give
liability and permaDance to an in
ustry which takes on an aaue
whenever the wise men represent
ng the I'D. and the Pic. at
Washington fash to the country
he sad news that the committee
ways and means meditateS Il
ut on sugar.
The Factories will get all the
agar OFT of the cane, or at least
fly or forty per cent more than is
Ow obtained. 1t is then manifest
lat if a sugar planter at large
Expense for machinery ana build
~. can now make living under
forty seven per cent tariff, Il
a1se grower can do so with an
ut put Of fifty per cent more {
agar, without any tariff. {
All the idle lands will then be
ut in cane and that, as IL general !
lie, by white farmers. Enser-
rise and progress Will Immediately
art in the towns, for there vii!
OF only be more home trade and !
ONE supply, but there will be l
ore people to trade with.
A white man whocomes to 81. |
Larry today, cannot locate here. He !
not able to buy aplantatlon, and y
lie can find little piece of land t
Z camotfnd Il market for his cane
he 1Factory" will give Him 4 I
rance to raise cane by the tom !,
I'd gradually the plantations will
, sold off in small farms. Give c
good white man a chance and t
, will fasten down on real estate i
, matter what the price IS. p,
If our people want thrift, pro- l
'ess, activity and enterprise they ]
ust get in here the race that !
axes thrift progress and activ- !
J wherever it plants its foot: II
ey want churches and schools '
ii lyceums; if they want to see
nj smiling with bounteous !
,rvests, grooming beneath the .
eight of its wealtli; it they want [
see the natural charms of this '
untry embellished by all that
aud energy can accomplish, g
! them pave the way for the !
ming of the white son OF toll :
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