The Dispatch. [volume] (Provo City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1891-08-15

of the public Treasury bounty Of one
and three-quarter cents a pound upon
all sugar polarizing between eighty and
ninety degrees, which will amount, ac-
cording to the present production of
sugar in this country, to between seven
and eight million dollars per annum.
This is the first time in our history
when it has ever been proposed to pay
out Of the public Treasury bounty to
the domestic producer Of any article
not exported, and never heretofore has
it been proposed to pay out Of the pub
lie treasury bounty upon any article
actually exported unless it was MANU-
factured in whole or in part from for
eign duty paid materials. The lirsJ
tariff act passed JY Congress imposed
duty upon salt and provided that there
should be allowed, in lieu OF draw
back upon salt and picked fish and
salted provisions thereafter exported
the sum Of five cents on each quintal OF
fish and five cents on each barrel OF
provisions, and we have now, upon tie
statute bu1Ss. laws under which draw
backs are paid upon the expectation of
articles manufactured in whole or in
part from imported materials. In lieu
Of these payments allowed 10y the act
of 1853, the act OF 1890 provided that
there should be a bounty paid upon
vessels engaged in the fisheries of Sl.5Q
per ton on a vessel exceeding twenty
and not exceeding thirty tons, and $3.50
on vessels exceeding thirty tons.
But tbs bounty was not paid for the
purpose Of encouraging the production
or the catching Of fish, because it was
not made to depend to any extent
whatever upon the number or quantity
of fish caught. The sole policy OF the
act was to encourage American citizens
to learn the art OF seamanship, which
in those days of sailing-yessels WAS Il
matter Of the very gray est Importance
/ to a young nation struggling 20 estab-
lish an efficient navy, but the mere
catching Of fish was a matter of little
/ Importance and did not. in the eslima-
ton OF anybody, rise to the dignity of
a public necessity This bounty was
to be justified. if justifiable at all, upon
the same principle which underlies our
legislation establishing naval and mill
tary academies for the education OF
officers for the army and the navy and
maintaining them at the public ex-
pense-a purely public object aud not
private one.
Moreover, under that bounty act the
money was divided between the owners
OF the vessels and the laborers upon
them, the laborers receiving five
eighths of the money and the owners OF
the vessels three-eighths. Under the
MCKINLEY bill the laborer is entirely
ignored in the distribution of the
bounty, and all the money is to be paid
the capitalist, the manufacturer Of
sugar, the man who is able to own and
operate the expensive machinery neces-
sarily used in that business. Nor is
anv part OF this bounty to be paid TO
the grower of beets or sorghum or
sugar-cane, but every dollar OF it will
90 to the manufacturer who makes
sugar from those materials.
But it may be argued that the pro-
ducer of beets and sorghum and cane
who is not able to own the necessary
machinery to convert them into sugar
receive / % price. for his pro
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first place, TIE farmer can not control
and never has been able to control the
prices of his products; and,
in the second place, the manufacturer
OF beet sugar-and that is the article
for which this encouragement was
mainly intended-will be compelled to
sell his sugar in the open markets OF
the country in competition with the su-
gar made from cane and sorghum, and
he will not pay to the farmer who sells
his beets one cent more for his material
than is value, as material. compared
with the value of the material from
which other sugar is made. Neither
will the consumer receive any benefit
from his bounty. He viii not get his
sugar one cent cheaper than he would
if no bounty were paid, because the
bounty-paid sugar produced in this
country will sell in the markets at the
same price precisely as the duty paid
refined sugar which comes here from
other countries, but the consumers will
be taxed seven or eight million dollars
per annum to be paid as gratuity to
the manufacturers, and to this extent
their sugar will cost them more than it
would have cost without the bounty.
THE COST OF A HOME VICE.
1t cost last year to educate the chill