Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-04-27
What Cheap Sugar Means.

The United States, in parting with
/ the revenue derived from sugar, (which
for decade has averaged over $780,
| 900, 900, has taken one of the steps
which are at once the admiration and
despair of Europe. No European
state could endure the loss of reve-
nue.. No one of them, having begun
the customs protection of its sugar
industries, would have the courage to
abandon it and substitute protection
for bounty, in order to give its peo-
pie the benefit of cheap sugar and its
industries the benefit involved in the
development Of sugar production.
The United States has done all
three. 1t has parted with a revenue
from this single source, larger than
its entire revenue receipts forty years
ago. It has given its people cheap
sugar. By bounties, it proposes to
stimulate sugar production. 1t is
kigh time. No better measure exists
of the average we'll being and pros
perity of the great mass of people
than steady increase in the consump-
ton of sugar and other staples.
In the per capita consumption of
all other great staples, wheat, corn,
meat, iron, cotton and wool, the Unit
ed States leads the world. 1t does
not in sugar. The per capita con-
sumption of sugar in Great Britain in
1883 was seventy pounds annually;
The gross increase was greater here
than in Great Britain. Sugar con-
sumption advanced there from 1,068,-
824 tons in 1888 to / ,231,8 1928 tons in
1889, an advance of 1863 ,004 tons or
fifteen per cent. In this country the
advance was from 1,164, ,926 tons in
1888 to 1,442, ,90S tons in 1889, or
357, ,079 tons, an increase of thirty
per cent. But while our increase in
gross consumption was twice as great
as in England, the growth of pOpu-
lation was so rapid that a per capita
annual consumption of 1872 pounds
in 1888 rose only to 5O.3 pounds in
1899 In the interval, the consump-
ton averaged 81 pounds. Last year,
1890, it was "a pounds, but in the
past seven years,in which the worlds
production of sugar has advanced
from 100000 tons to 100000
tons and the per capita consumption
of every European country has risen,
the United States has increased its
general, without advancing its indi-
vidual consumption.
A fact like this in year of great
prosperity is plain proof that the
United States has not shared an in
crease general to all the rest of the
world. Such a check in consump-
ton is the clearest demonstration of
the evil worked by this duty. Pro-
tective tariffs have not had this effect.
Our consumption of pig iron doubled
in the last eight years, or grew twice
as fast as population. This has been
equally true of silk, cotton, ,and wool,
raw and manufactured. Protective
duties in these cases did not advance
price, and hence did not restrict con-
sumption. The 'Frevenue tariff on
sugar directly added to price and did
retrict consumption.
This heavy tax on a prime necessi-
ty of food has now been removed.
Raw sugar, for the first time in our
history, is free. We look to see its
consumption increase by leaps and
bounds. 1t ought, Judging from
English experience, to double in the
next decade, perhaps in the next five
years. Every family will feel the
change. The cost of living is sensi-
bly, lessened. 1t is rank nonsense
to say that the refner will absorb the
reduction. The narrow margin of
three-eights of a cent pound left
for the refiner is heavily reduced by
the bounties on French and German
sugars. Under these bounties Ger
many doubled her product from 1879
to 1889, and to-day exports more su-
gar than Cuba, and sells it more
cheaply in the market of the world.
Cheap sugar is certainty under
the Mckinley tariff. 1t is the only
Mckinley price" which has come to
stay. On years expenditure in
day laborer's family of five the re-
duction is equal to a weeks wages.
GUARANTEED CURE FoRLA GRIPPE.-We author
ize our advertised druggist to sell DIR. Kings New
Discovery for consumption, coughs and colds, upon
this condition. If you afflicted with La Grippe
and will use this remedy according to directions,
giving it fair trial, and experience no benefit,
you may return the bottle and have your money
refunded We make this offer because of the won
derfnI success of DIR. Kings New Discovery during
last seasons epidemic. Having heard of no
in which it failed. Try it. Trial bottles free at
IL. c. Pierce's drug store. Large size SOC and co.
Village Improvement.
Great progress has been recently
made in village improvements. This
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