The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-12-20
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Eli Perklns's Little Simplo Story Or the
Birth and Growth OF . New Industry.

| Birth and Growth OF . New Industry.
To THE EDITOR OF TIE SuN-Sir: T want 10
| tell our little children story about chicory.
| suppose you don't know what chicory IL. Well.
| It Is a vegetable like a parsnip. which the
ing, browning. grinding. and using Instead Of
ssOO0.00O to Germany every year for this
Wholesome food. but It has no nerve stlmu.
liant It like oofi te. Children can drink chicory
TO Set to TIE story: When they we're put;
ght tS cRkS0sy
xss Esrope
We'll. what shall we do with it9" asked sew
eral Gongressmen ,., al, x.n,-,
land the people want It, we will let raw chicorI
come In free but we WI put protective tariff
Sring the msnafaetores to America Il We cane ana
raise the stuff" So the tariff went on to man
u Suddenly sf noticed great stir among tho
s5 bill hs s0 raised .ss
%Ss an @a %efs ana
chieory M That they must hurry
up and bring their chicory factories over here.
bssanp 70 ap
in Gty HSbokSPb s% New
work ~ America. They got their raw chicory
NV y$srk f@s"n ho s S wen
We are too far away. We must raise our
So they got sht,cory seeds %is, from Germany
aTa Put IN G crop IN CHILEAN lfss spfng
made out 81 wheat II set them crazy, Every
tbs s Dasd To- sss IL rs FL
the factory and Jerry hask and preparing to
acres q ssiso%y axas PSt SSsi SsS sss
man had He was drying u sf and Sr 70 L
o %Rs1 h s ss;S him how he came to raise
why my brother raises 1t in Belgium. and
when the Mckinley bill passed he rushed she seed
s %Ss ald' Heis on his way here now to sec
What will be. the result Of all this chioory
%y Su sse1 arsn %
sss or SS1s K mahe ha,e at and
hstry q tas S1d hoy we GSs
have ss 1 Wiss
on INT ss
chicory raiser in France. heard OF 1t. he
sssast r. d xAp tay
came over here to raise it, But when he found
there WAS no tariff on the raw. roots ip the
states Snsa be went to Canada saw BIZ John Mao
III Canada will put tariff on raw chieoryI
vii! plant four miles square In Manitoba"
Then We'll do IT." said Sir John and he did.
Last spring visited Baron Babant,s 1000
the Canadian Pacific He proposes to supply
all Canada with chicory and send his surplus
raw chicory over to be manufactured In the
ss Is nSw sb agio aE d bs his
ii is funny. about the price Of chicory. too. Il
Composition brought It down to 10 cents. then
to cents. then to u cents then to 4 cents. and
now II Is offered wholesale at 3Is cents. Our
retail grocers are keeping the news from the
people and sti selling chicory at IL cents per
pound. when thoy coul ID sell It at 8 cents.
BY and by. II we get tarin on raw chlcory,
imRrG'ye biz coffee oSs,halt ehcory gives
80 cents pound. II Is one Of the burdens OF
our farmers and mechanics to buy Il, for we
all drink coffee. But soon chicory will be- one
OF our own crops and $4,000. 600 will be saved
to our country every year
Putting in chicory. fax, beet sugar and rails.
age for wheat. and with the present tariff Of Is
cents against Canadian wheat rye. oats and
marley. We viii next year consume our surplus
wheat, md then wheat viii! go to a dollar a
buslel In Dakota farm lands will go up the
farmer will again. after fifteen years 81 low
prices. DO on top-and all through the wise
protection Rat ground " by the Mckinley bI
Ios Wxsy END AyEavk New York