Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-11-02

6. 1t had saved the Am ,rican wool grower
from utter ruin by protecting him from dis
aStrouS competition with foreign Scent wool,
keeping the price of American wool at an av-
GRACE Of 500 cents pound by comparison with
an average OF Is. cents per pound, as shown
! by quotations of similar grades at CORE
spending dates in Philadelphia and London.
Difference in favor of the protected American
| wool-grower, l6S cents per pound.
The secretary quoted from a published
utterance of his own as long ago as April,
1890, the following plea for reciprocity:
Accompanying this principle of protection to
the American farmer is that of reciprocity,
which should invariably be applied whenever
that OF protection is relaxed. II there are prod
uctS grown to better advantage in other 2oun-
tries, remission of duty on which would seem to
be in the interest ola large portion of our pop
ulatlon, such remission should only be accorded
as the result of reciprocal concession in the way
of remission of duties by such other countries
on products more readily grown here. Many of
those countries which would be specially bene-
nted by Il remission of the duty on sugar by
our government would afford g excellent mar
ket for our bread stuffs ana dairy and meat
products, were 1t not for the high duties i'm
posed thereon by them. So with other products
ana whenever duty on such products is lowered
thus diminished, it should be as the price OF
concessions made to us in the tariff of other
countries in favor of our own farm products.
In this way. and in this way only, can our
farmers be adequately protected, new markets
being thus thrown open to them for those prod
ucts which they can most easily and cheaply
produce.
AS Illustrating the value of the work
done by the departments agent in Europe
on behalf of Indian corn, the secretary
stated that the first six months OF this cal
endar year showed an export of over o.
100000 bushels, against 11.000,000 bushels
for the same perion the previous year.
Democrats Misrepresenting the Sugar
Bounty.
Certain Democrats are trying to make it
appear that the sugar bounty clause Of the
Mckinley bill is perverted to the use Of re-
finerS of sugar, who not only import their
raw material free under its beneticent OPP
eratiOnS, but clam bonus OF cents per
pound on their importation. The aSSer-
tiOn is ridlculOuSly false, but lit goes
with other Democratic falsltieS The fol-
lOvinglS a sample of many letters that we
have received in relation to this last cam
palgn lie:
To the Edttor.-Please advise N through
your paper how the bounty on sugar is paid,
and how it Is determined what part of the
sugar is produced in the United States. Ger
tain Democrats try to make 1t appear that the
refners run foreign sugar into their reineries
and collect bounty on it the same as sugar
produced in the United States.
This falSehOod is no more audaciOuSly
stupid than many others that the Demo-
cratic party is putting in circulation. 1t
is utterly impossible for any refiner to col
lect bounty on foreign sugar, or on do
mestIc sugar either. The bounty is paid
to the grower, and to him only. The pro-
visions OF the Mckinley bill are these:
l. A bounty of 2 cents per pound on all
sugar testing not less than 80 degrees to
the polaIiscOpe, from beets, sorghum or
sugar cane grown within the United
States, or from maple sap produced with
in the United States" and bounty of 83l
cents per pound on ''all such sugar testing
less than 80 and more than 80 degrees by
the pOlariScOpe."
2 The producer of such sugar, to be en-
titled to such bounty, shall have flied,
prior to 1St of July of each year. notice
of the place of production, with general
description OF the kind of machinery used
by him, with an estimate OF the amount of
sugar that he proposes 60 produce, Or of
the number of maple trees that he intends
to tap. together with BOND IN q penalty
that he will faithfully observe all rules
and regulations that the commissioner
shall prescribe for the manufacture and
production of sugar.
3. Upon fling OF this application and
bond the commissioner shall grant IL
cense for the production of sugar under
the bounty provision, but such license
shall not extend beyond one year from
date.
4. No bounty shall be paid to any per-
son engaged in refining sugars that have
been imported to the United States, or
produced in the United States upon which
the bounty herein provided has been paid,
nor to any person, unless licensed as herein
provided.
5. These provisions are guarded by a
penalty not exceeding $4,000, Or imprison-
ment. or both, against any person violat-
ing them.
The sugar bOuntieS are in the nature of
increased protection to the agricultural,
and not to the manufacturing, branch Of
the sugar industry.