The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-07-24
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AEYIlsasIons For @11.ooO. o0o-Enorazlousa /
sums Fer tils Sugar 1'Z.uters-EIOvr UrsGEs 4
sans 1EIlitoEE WIZ he Divided ETlhero /
DOeE ehs Wheat Grower Come Ius
The applications for the sugar bounty |
fled at the internal revenue office In (
New Orleans offer some highly inter l
estlng figures for the taxpayers who
must pay that bounty. The number OF
applications fled is $50, but these rep
resent only SOS individuals or COM
Panies. since some planters own several
plantations and separate application
must be made for each These sos per
sons expect to produce 551. OS5. 500
pounds of raw sugar. and they are ask
ing Uncle Sam TO pay them a bounty
of Si1, POO, 100 on it
If this amount Is allowed, each plant
er will pocket the neat little sum OF
nearly $50, OOO- This viii be the aver
+ age of all; but an astonishing result is
reached by taking the seventeen larg-
/ est planters, who propose to make each
/ an average of 5, 900, GOO pounds or more
/ These seventeen men ask for a bounty
I Of -, $50, T2o, an average for each per
/ son OF SI55, GOO
There are 1862 persons who expect to
make from /, 600, 600 TO 3, COO 600 pounds
/ each. and they ask for a bounty of 50,
/ $3.50, or an average to each man OF
/ SS5, go. Next come 26S planters who
/ want free gift from Uncle Samuel OF
/ s., $50, 600, which means $40, $50. Finally
come the small fry to the number Of
l21, asking for Sos. $40, or Ss6T per fry.
Omitting the small fry, there remain
in the first three classes Az persons.
and the average bounty asked for by
/ them is about SO, 600.
The beauty of this thing, from this
standpoint of the planters. is that the
billion congress fixed this bounty for a
period OF fifteen years If the people
] 81 sF1h oVg1fE to Fra
Louisiana planters viii in that time
make away with about S16S, COG, 600 of
money wrung from the payers of tariff
and other taxes This makes no allow
ance for the increased production, which
is sure to follow in the next few years,
in order to get the bounty. When we
get through with this bounty business
it will undoubtedly be found that not
less than $500, 600, 600 has gone into the
| pockets of the sugar planters.
) But why this bounty to the plantersq
Do they add anything more to the pub
: lie well-being than the growers of
3 wheat? The price of the best centrif-
ugal sugar in the New York markets
J is now S55 cents a pound, while the
Chicago price of wheat is 81 cents a
: busheL At these prices a bushel OF
/ wheat is worth p pounds of sugar.
: Uncle Sam, therefore, makes a present
2 OF 81 cents to the sugar planter for pro
r ducing p pounds of sugar, while the
farmer, who produces an equal value in
r wheat, gets no bounty at all, but on the
S contrary must chip in his portion OF
? tariff taxes to pay the sugar man his
fat bounty.
1 This thing is not right, however well
2 it may fit in with protectionist ideas oil
E taxation. Uncle Sam has no money
2 except what he gets from the people
themselves in taxes, and every penny
q | that he pays the sugar grower mus
r come from the pockets Ofmen who grow
q / other things The sugar bounty is
a piece of class legislation, of favoritism
g which shows exactly the nature of pro
d | lection itself 1t rObs ninety-five mel
t out of every hundred for the benefit o
the other five.