, 1890-11-12

estate OF a capacity OF 1000 hogaheads,
working with vacuum pan and purchasing
the cane at the established prices and OBJ
tanning from it an average yield OF 9 per
cent.
Amount to-. ............. s. 55l8
Sixty arrobes OF sugar are worth
to-day 1854. .......... -. $4,000
Thirty arrobes Of mClasses on
estate........ 80 -. ......S3.T5 49.75
Loss on each hogshead ,-...S 5.43
Loss on 1000 hogshealS $5.43O
Taxes Oh am estate producing 1000 hogs,
llea1S of sugar aggregate today Is per
cent. Of the manufacturing cost, exclusive
0fthe previous import daty and the ) per
cent. tax on railroad freight
The effect OF this overwhelming impoSi-
ton is The certain ruin of the owners If thB
smaller Is states, and the only means Of SAL
walton lett hem Is to stop grinding at ONCE
and become cane tenants, selling their
ntne to the nearest central factory, a scheme
that many have already adopted with Sa-
tiAtactOry results,
Some ot The largest |central factories
might "utStand these heavy charges but
simultaneously with the disappearance Of
The smaller plantations it is likely that tho
tax to which they are subjected will be in
creased and gradually reduce thei! profits
.Rutil placing them IN a situation similar to-
the one in which the smaller estates are
to-day.
10 save themselves further anuoyances,
the best thing the Nv ners OF Genital fac
tories could do at the present mnnlent
would be to tightly unite themselves as
soon as possible, III order To defend col
l~eGtivcly their interests, which are serious
~ threatened by the ever increasing taxes.
and duties o. all classes which oyerburdel,
the sugar manufacturing industry Of UnbH
Effort tOa0drd Reciprocity pClth the United
States; The excltiOnS OF planters and all
classics in general to bring the Govern
ment at Madrid to enter into a treaty of
commerce with the United States, continue
unreleutingly, but until to-day nothing has
as Yet be II obtained despite the meetings
held, the resolutions passed, the gable
grams sent over to Spain, and th@ ~resOlute
attitlde assumed by the press and flle
union of Cigar Manufacturers and others
The Board. OF Planters have conv0ked fol ~
grand meeting 10 he held next week III or
der TO adopt resolutions in harmony with
those of the Chamber Of Commerce.
In fact, the excitement has become so in
tense, that serious troubles here are TO be
feared in a very short tinge, unless the GO
vernment yield to the popular pressure.
Cigar Makers Meeting: The excitement
promoted by the closing of some factories
and the announcement that all those work
ing for the Uuited States would soon do the
same, continues increasing at this place.
On Sunday last a large number of cigar
makers held a meeting ut one of the thea
tres of the city and adopted several resO-
luEiops to the effect of assuming at once a
united and energetic attitude against any
law or disposition restricting the industries
in connection with tobacco, and appointing
q committee, whose mission will consistglnt
formulating a protest, frank and energetic
against the government for their late dis
positions, which have given scope to the
~reprisai law in the United States. .ypteea
Seldom has the government been s0bitterr
" criticised and their. dispositions regard.
ing the monopoly OF the tobacco trade in
Spain so violently condemnedoas in this
meeting, and it was evident that all the
orators were convinced that the law of re-
ciprOcity j0 t voted in Washington, the
same as The Pan American Congress, is,
but Of the means Mr.. Blaine has adopted:
to Garry ont his plans regarding tile es-
~tahlishment, of the Monroe doctriue. Ift8a
= .i4.y. azH 4gsg.s9 II IS Essa4ra P.b.0.
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