The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-02-16
snnAR BOUNTY.
~ r-;seussion osthe Sugar Bounty Clause
81 she Mckinley Bill.

rrfnT6e workings Of hesugar bounty
@,sss ~ tie Mckinley Bill, which has
Vat fourteen years to run.
f3ref yearshows that the gratuIty
domestic sugar makers will cost
NaksonaI Treasury about three mil
iirns - dollars. contributed by the
49, naqefs of the whole country.
T1u6ee n shis letter only the state
~enta az the louisiana Planter and
$500 Man89octureF, published at
NAp 0ffeana-a weekly, which prints
4lnoa its title page that it lis b IN
49, Craan of the Louisiana Sugar
spIaa Association, Ascension
Becgh Sugar Planters Associat!on'
.Idn7si4 ma Sugar Chemists Association,
$3.50 Sugar Growers ASSOCIATION,
aas Sugar Planters ASSOCIATION.
This paper also states that 1t IS De
1fad to louisiana agriculture In gen
AL and to the sugar industry In par
and in all itsbranches, agrlcul,
fu. mechanical, chemical, political
nd commercial ,
As it claims to be the official and
naiftica1 organ of the sugar trade, It's
tatements in regard to the affairs OF
this trade ought to be considered re
liable; certainly in anything pertaining
10 the bounty. :,
IN Its issue Of Dec. 18th its editorial
voices the complaints of the planters
and nil owners that the great delay
Il receiving the bounty from Washing
ton was causing serious embarrassment
them. .tfor the bounty is not profit;
uch of it has to be paid out for ma
aery bills, labor, ETC."
Ter editions from week to week
.D~1S~@kz~ 0rH Ton1Iaru nYni91n
sfhe clerical delays at the Sugar
nty Division at Washington, D.
are baiae~6xpedited by Lou lana
nen and instructions ana
r~aouIatious of the Treasury Depart
ment are published from time to time,
showing how applications for the
bounty shall bemade in order to secure
nrOmDt payment. These fOrmalities
reveal the fact that the bounty is paid
upon the weights of q government
Weigher By the samples and polari-
scope tests of q government chemist,
recorded by the internal revenue Off
GERS and the bureau clerks at Wash
ington, paid by a draft on the q, S.
Treasury, which is endorsed by the
beneficiary, and passed through his
bank, thusmaking the record complete,
that somebody pays and somebody
gets it
Numerous items of news from the
local correspondents of this journal in
different parishes in the State of LOuisi-
ana threw light as to the amounts
paid to individuals and firms out of
the total bounty. One planter Incl
entalsy mentions that out Of the pro
lee is of this years crop he was liable
Is pay all his expenses with the exceD-
aQn OF n bill for lumber and a note for
Practically speaking, he did
pay that mote for mules" but the
sof the people of the United States
via the u. s. Treasury.
neprice themil gotfor sugar under
did tariff was about sc. under the
Sent Sc. and 31c., and to this must
added the bounty of &c. as so much
the advantage of the sugar-maker,
be the grower.
TO show how this cost of production
81 domestic sugars compares with the
rice OF Cuban sugars, I will quote
from a report by United States Consul
SO. 2. Reimer, at Santiago de Cuba,
dated August, 18th, 1891, which the
Plaater gives in full in its edition of
january seth, 1892. Our Consul there
q states that the crops sold at the
plantations this year for from 81. u to
% per lee lbs, according to distance
IN the market. the average price be-
&3. 124 per ZOE lbs, or 33c. per ID.
rasAm8rIcan mach merry and
DDS are largely used in Cuba, tits
FAX TO state that the cost of making
sugar In Louisiana is about the same;
AM, Judging from internal evidence in
tbs shape Of market reports in the
louisiana Planter, the &c. bounty
musi be nearly all profit.
Cuoa produces 9G0, 600 tons, or thir-
aen lines as much sugar as the United
which produced about 70, 900
ast year. The annual cOnsump-
sugar In the United States in
with the population about 5 per
rear, but last year, owing to
ET, it increased $50, 900 tons, or
emit, some five times more
q the whole country produced
q almost impossible for thn
cane and beet growers to
demands. Yet with the
Etbe bouptyy%heOppOrtlnitv
for enlarging the domestic supply is
sufhclently great, as this country con
summed last year one million, nine hun
dred Thousand tons of sugar, euualling
bsA pounds per capita. Is is no wonder
that an increased acreage is being
planted, and that the central factory
system, to buy the cane of smaller
armer being established.
But let Us see what the effect of this
bounty payment is on land values
1Re laborer Ia the field earn all their
gesS the farmer who sells to the |
central factory gets, the price of his
canes N O tree trade market; the sugar
Ill owner gets the market price for
his sugar andmolas ses, and in addition
~ cents per pound on the sugar
6 woald SEEM as if the mill owners
and plantation owners em0lument two
cents a peund, an acre producing 500
pounds or $100 TO the acre. was far ont
on proportion to that of the other