The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-04-17
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that cheap and nasty 80 together
The SUGAR BouNTY
1t WIN Cost MORE Than Mckinley rlosgl.s
The Treasury Department E>nIarEinE
the EsttulGtss-E1iu ar EaTorltlaua os
Bounties and F'rorsctIvs EarIah.
1t was estimated by Mai Mckinley
last year when he was in the tariff
making business, that the sugar bounty
would cost the country about s.. coo, 600
a year. As the bounty was given for
fifteen years the total sum thus voted
away would be SOS, 900. geo, but il Is al
ready evident that this bounty is going
to cost the country vastly more than
McKiRley's estimate.
The treasury department has esti-
mated, upon the basis of the production
of sugar in 1890, that 50, 600, 600 viii be
called fox for bOunties-abOutS -, 600, eco
for cane sugar, $500, 900 for beet sugar
and sorghum sugar and SST5. 600 for ma
pie sugar The great bulk of the eE-
penditUre for cane sugar will go 20 the
Louisiana planters, who produce +O0,-
600, 600 pounds per year, against only
about 10, 600, 600 pounds in Texas and
5000, 600 pounds in Florida There are
746 cane sugar producing institutions in
Louisiana, 90 in Texas and one in Flori-
da- Sorghum is produced at six insti-
tutions in Kansas aud beet sugar mt one
institution in Nebraska and two in Cal
California and one IN Utah and one in
Iowa The maple sugar producers, who
are largely in Vermont, are estimated
at between 10. 600, and Is. GOO, and their
production at 30, 600, 600 pounds
The estimates made cover only the
present production and make no allow
auce for the stimulus of the big bounty.
The bounty itself Is not all of the ex-
peuse, for 1t was necessary to add SI65,-
600 TO the appropriation OF the Internal
revenue bureau for deputy collectors and
other officials and $50, 900 for the pay
ment Of inspectors salaries and eS-
penses. and to authorize six additional
clerks in the commissioners Office.
1t is reported already that an unUsu-
ally large crop OF sugar cane viii be
planted in Louisiana this year in order
to get the Mckinley bounty. 1t may
be expected that within a few years the
sum required to meet the bounty VIII
be very much larger.
AS the sum increases the people will
see more and more clearly the folly and
injustice OF taking away millions from
the taxpayers and giving 10 over TO
sugar producers Why should one in
dustry be favored in this way at the ex-
pense OF all other industries This is the
question which Will force itself upon the
minds of the people. To the proUec-
ZIONIST mind. warped as it is by eco
nomic heresy, the bounty may appear a
very reasonable way to assist an indus
try which Is not able to stand on its
own legs: but the plain, cOmmOn-sen se,
uuperverted mind of the country viii
/ reject this conclusion in toto. The plain
working people Of the land. the farm
ers. the mechanics. viii conclude rather
that an industry which OF itself does not
yield a profitable return can only be
rendered profitable at the expense OF
these industries Whether this extra
profit be guaranteed by = protective
duty, whether it be seized by "a trust or
com binaJiOn to maintain high prices, or
{ whether Il be voted direct from the
/ treasury in the form Of a bounty, the
/ people viii see that the result is the
same in the long run-the toiling masses
are assessed to guarantee profits 90 the
few. Their instructive love of fair play
/ viii inevitably demand that ali indus
I tries be put upon an equal 1OOting-an
I open field for all, and favors for none
If under these conditions sugar plant
ers are compelled to take up other en-
| Payments, the country viii be a gamer.
and not a loser for we shall still
/ sweeten our tea and coffee, and do IL
3 more chsaply than ever before If the
( few hundred windOw-glass makers have
/ TO shut up shop the people would Oss
( nothing. We should still have glass in
( our windows and have it at nearly half
7 price. The destruction of an Industry
/ is not always an evil to be feared; it
may, indeed, be a good thing. The
{ farmer who abandons an uGprOductivs
: field 70 take IN a more fertile one gains
/ by the change; and if one kind OF crop
[ does not pay he very sensibIy adopts
/ another which has money in IL
1t is false to assert that any given i'm
dustry IS a necessity TO 3 country. Com
mOdities are the only things necessary.
and 1t is Indifferent who makes these
Not the production Of commodities bue
the possession and enjoyment of them
are the main confederation BOunti.ss
/ and protective duties can give US moth
ing which we could not have gotta1l B. ?
/ sinplsr and cheaper methods