St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-12-14
MINNESOTA BEET sUGAR.


The GLOBE yesterday morning gave
its readers long and very interesting
account by an expert of the process and
profits of making sugar from beets.
From this we learn that at 81 ton for
the beets, the farmer makes net profit
of over $50 an acre. AS the profit from
wheat is under SO, and that from corn
is about the same. it is evident that rails
ing beets for the sugar factory is the
most profitable use the Minnesota
farmer can put his land to. There is
small doubt that, when a sugar mill is
started in any locality in this state, its
only difficulty will be in REFRESHING the
eagerneSS of the farmers to supply it
with its raw material.
Turning from the profits of beet
raising to those of converting them
into sugar, the prospect Mr.. MEYERS
holds out are not less aliurlng to the
man of money. With money earning
not over S per cent OH loans and netting
only about 10 in the roundup in any
business, the opportunity to place
money where it will earn 35 per cent is
certainly tempting. MI. MEYERS pre-
sents tables of cost and profits which
warrant his conclusions. Even if his
estimated price of sugar be cut in two.
there still remains profit with which
most men will be content.
But-and the GLOBE regrets that this
promise of big returns on investments
has its ''but''-it is compelled by its
fidelity to Democratic principles to en-
phatically dissent from the concluding
hope of Mr.. MEYERS that ''the bill for
bounty of l cent a pound for the
sugar and so cents pound for the beets
in the state of Minnesota will be passed
by the next legislature" The GLOBE
wishes the enterprise well. 1t will open
its columns gladly to whatever will en-
courage and advance it, but it draws
the line at the bounty. 1t believes that
it is not function of government to
| build up Industries. This On principle.
1t does not believe it pays in the long
run. This as matter of policy. 1t does
not believe it is right. That settles it.
as far as the GLOBE is concerned. Then
| there is that constitutional inhibition of
taking private property, the taxpayers
money, for private purposes, the sugar
beet-groWer's and sugar-maker's profit.
In RESPONSE to circular letter sent out by
the state committee relative to the campaign
of "a, a correspondent writes: with the
class of Democrats in which | am most in
terested the campaign of '94 began on Nov
9. Like the man who never got drunk but
once, because he was drunk all the time. they
have never gone into but one campaign
There is the same difference between them
and many so-caled Democrats that there is
between the children that attend Sunday
school all the year round and those that only
show up at Christmas time when the plums
are to be distributed. No doubt you have
observed how OH Christmas eve the latter are
found on the front seats within easy reach
of the presents, perfect. fac-simile of the in
termittent Democrats who are in a state of
Information except at convention and cleo
ton time, when they are up in front. their
forms and voices looming up and overshad-
owing all else. To Democrats not of that
class your circular is welcome messenger,
Notwithstanding it comes like reYeille to
a soldier already on the march,"