Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1890-08-01
There are at present 1900 beet

There are at present 1900 beet
sugar factories in Europe, and
they consume 24,000,00O tons Of
beets every year. Annual output
of sugar amounts to 100000 tons.
1t is said that over $4,000, 900 are
expended for labor and fuel. and
that $l00,000,000 are paid to far
mers for beets. These figures are
probably too high, but they serve
to throw light upon the magnitude
and Importance of the industry
Lancaster Excelsior.
Does the Excelsior know that
the magnitude and Importance Of
the Sugar industry in the Europe
an countries represented is due
to the protective tariff on sugar in
those countries?
Stick to your home market.
Stand by your own town and hold
her interests. Spend your money
where you make it. This is the
only way to build up home enter
prise. We have good markets
here as cheap as anywhere. If
you are in need of anything carri-
ed by home merchants. give them
the first chance for your custom.
Sturgeon Leader.
We find something like the above
in almost every country exchange.
What shall we say of the mer-
chant who gives his order for sta
tionery to tho travelling man who
offers to do his work a little cheap
er than the home printer, who is
working week in and week out to
draw trade to make him rich? Is
it fair-ls it rights it just?-
Lancaster Excelsior.
Read the above from two Of the
rankest free trade papers in the
country. What cry for home
protection! Sending away from
home for goods is the policy that
is continually advocated py these
papers. and it is only when this
policy effects their own immediate
financial interests, that they can
realize how destructive it is to
prosperity to make purchases
away from home when the same
goods can be obtained at home
nearly, if not quite, as cheap. But
where is their consistency.
About 10000 pounds of wool
have been shipped from Schuy-
Ter county this season, nearly all
of which was purchased by Mr.. II.
Pepper, of the firm of Pepper &
Bros, of Chicago. Of this amount
100000 pounds was handledIby
Lancaster merchants, for which
they they paid 25 cents per
pound, in all about $1,000 more
than they receive for it. The re-
suit is the concentration of large
tlade here, which is principally
done by two firms. It is likely
that there are 10000 pounds Of
wool yet in the hands of farmers.
Mr.. j. W. Birney, of this place,
has 10000 pounds unsold. This
is peculiarly sheep country, and
every man who handles them
makes money, and it is passing
strange that every farmer in the
county does not turn his attention
to sheep raising. It is no use in
trying longer to buck against the
western ranges in raising cattle.
Hogs mean corn and lots of it, and
that is not always a sure crop.
There is as much money in feed
ing sheep for market as there is in
feeding hogs. AS things now are
sheep raising is on the highway
to wealth.-Lancaster Excelsior.
The Excelsior admits that "as
things now are" sheep raising is
On the highway to wealth. But
will the Excelsior please explain
what it means by the expression:
'As things now are." 1t can only
mean that under a protective tariff
'he wool industry pays large prof
ts, and that those engaged in it
'eap great rewards. Take off the
luty of IL cents pound on WOO j,
md farmers would have to gi We
Up sheep the same as they b ave
,iven up cattle. Does the Ex-
'elsior see the point?
Weather Forecasts for August. 1890.
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