Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-09-24

otherwise they would vote against their
individual interests as well as the best
interests of the county generally.
There is no escaping the force of Mr..
McKinley's reasoning on the leading
issues which divide the two parties. He
shows the people the danger and the
folly of supporting party pledged to a
course which would place millions OF
dollars in the pockets of few silver
producers and at the same time thrust
upon the people deprecated silver
doller. In one of his latest speeches he
declared: "Short crops are not half as
| injurious as short dollar. Short crops
providence will correct, but nothing will
correct a short dollar after the govern
ment has made it So"
On the tariff the Major is equally
convincing and effective. The farmers
flock to hear him, and what is more i'm
portant they accept his teaching with
earnest enthusiasm. At great gather
ing last Friday he took up the wool
question, saying: "Wool of the same
grade as ours sells in foreign countries
for Is cents. By reason of the tariff we
place on the foreign we are able to sell
ours for 20 cents. Suppose it was free
as the Mills bill proclaimed it. 1t comes
here for lS cents without tariff and
you must sell for Is cents or keep it.
Which do you want-1S cents or 29
cents?" Several in the audience shouted;
sTwenty-niue cents" Then vote that
way" said jor Mckinley, and the
storm of applause that greeted this re-
mark was good evidence that the farmers
of Madison county would do it.
There is every indication that Major
Mckinley is making winning canvass,
and his victory promises to be one
unexampled in the history of the State.
AMERICA AND SUPPLY OF SUGAR.
Louisiana Planter. New Orleans.
The Liverpool press seems unanimous
in aiding DR.. Schack-Sommer in his
mission of teaching English farmers and
English manufacturers to grow and
manufacture their national supply of
sugar. The Liverpool Mercury says that
it is startling fact that Great Britain
pays Continental Europe e14,OOO,OOO
sterling or s7O,OO0,00O annually for
sugar and joins in the effort to induce
the production Of all this sugar at
home
DIR. Setback -Sommer is doing good
work in England in making such clear
exhibit of England's capacity to produce
her own sugar, and his valuable essay
and incidental discussion of it, all pub
lished herein, will repay careful study
by every student of sugar and of pollt-
ical economy.
Every word that DR.. Schack-Sommer
says in favor of an English beet sugar
industry is even more applicable to the
United States. For this country to go
on paying hundred millions annually
for foreign sugar, when proper legislative
consideration would soon make us ex-
porters of sugar, producing beyond our
own consumption, as we so readily do
in our other great agricultural staples
of wheat, corn, cotton, seems suicidal.
If the existing sugar law is maintain
ed until it expires, July l, 1905, as we
have every right to expect, the faith of
Congress being pledged thereto, there
will occur in this country one of the
grandest industrial revolutions ever seen.
The great fields of Kansas and Nebraska,
of Louisiana, Texas, California, and
Florida, will pour mass of agricultural
wealth into the lap of the nation that
mill enrich all its n1amhprS
On the other hand, if the United
States delay in developing domestic
sugar industry, the delay simply gives
that much the more start to competing
nations, and prevents our country re-
alizing the profit her natural advantages
entities her to.