The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1893-02-03

ton 10 abolish bounties. Such state
~ things would be the inevitable result
- hountv payments in this country. |
They might stimulates Prodnction' ous
would never make healthy sno haser
I'll industry.
sin is7s England abolished her fss-
port duties upon sugar. and every go
eminent of Europe. AS well - that q
the United States, has In turn taken >
hand in the contest of making sugar
and selling it TO her at less than cost
The annual gift made to the English
ue.,ple in this way Is estimated by LORD
Bramwell 70 be not less than - 900, OOO'
or 40. 600. OO0 And A. Lalande, deputy
from the Gironde, In an article ON sugar
hounties in rEcouomiste Francois in
August, 1879, estimates that about s4o''
900, 900 Is annually paid by the Euro
pean government to encourage the eA-
port of domestic sugar.
This enormous sum OF money u
drawn from the people OF the severn,
countries by taxation Noattempt Will
be made here To explain all the separ-
ate systems OF bounty payments which
have from time 10 time existed. but only
the systems now in force will be given
At present France, Germany, Austria
the Netherlands. Belgium and the
United States pay bounties on the pro-
duction or export Of raw or refined SUI
gar"
In discussing the sugar bounties OF
the Mckinley tariff act, Mr.. Lindquist
says:
THE essential provision OF the law
outside of that fixing the rate OF bounty
=, be p>id is the latter. which prescribes
that TO yet the benefit Of the bounty
each planter must make his own sugar
Now IL is a we'll known fact that only
| the largest planters do this The small
/. ntanters cannot afford the expensive
machinery required As soon as the
: law went into effect capitalists applied
!, to the treasury department for an IN
: t.rpetation of the law 70 determine
!, whether they would be permitted q
: ecect sugar houses for making sugar
. from the cane produced by the smaller
!. planters The treasury department d.
rected that on sugar SO produced M
!. bounty could be paid. For the same
: reason IL the small planters were to sci
| their cane tO tuC Aai ~ ~Vss~~' -
sugar produced from it could not CLAIM
Z the bounty The bounty, therefore,
= not for the small planters. who mos
= need it, but for the large and pcweriu
? ones Being unable to compete wit
= the large planters, the small grower
= will be forced to the wall and com
- pelled either to sell or lease their land
;" To the big concerns or cease producin
!. entirely. !,
* This effect OF the law has alread
y ,xsen shown in the number of applies
.' tons for licenses sent in to the co'nmi'
y sioner OF internal revenue. The tots
" number of applications from cane suga
:. growers is $50. but many OF these Al
from the same planters. since the req
as lations require separate applicauo
oe for each plantation. All told. ther
oe fore, there are only about COO planter
y" who will receive the bounty. Accor'
'c. ing TO the estimates of the commi
u sioner these 600 concerns will divit
NO among themselves total Of $40. $50, 90
Oh or Az. $50 each this year. Seven he
a,e sugar growers will get ejs4. 200, or IS
e's ass each: three sorghum planters %
~: ~ 600. or sl6. 500 each. and 1929 map
-" sugar makers. sl5O.OO0. or $ss each
~ grand total of ell, i34, 200 TO be paid o
l"e OF the money in the treasury collect
~. by taxation
- Not until 1905 can this law he
'a' pealed, and by that time there "
=. have been paid to such concerns as 7
rs CafYrey Central Sugar Refinery x la
'ns road Co. which will this year get -
va 600 in bounties, total Of si67,o0o o.
~" II the present rate of production
maintained. 1t will. however. on I
count OF increased production be neal
5000. OOo, 900.
This bounty law was not passed
ley the small planters, for as we have Sc
h - they have been denied its privileg
'sss but was enacted in the interest OF
large syndicatcs. especially that VII
~. ~, was formed some time ago in Philac
-" phia-thc home Of those fed by COVE
ney ment contracts--to grow sugar
Florida. In this, as in other thin
government has brought up its capi
n, lists. especially in Pennsylvania. IN
-" doctrine. that they ought not to unt
take anything without first having
- assistance, either in the form of Ia
-. protection. bounties or governm
.L;. contracts"
WIS And now what have been the eff
|, upon the home production OF sue
Estimates of the crop Of ls9s-3, obsal
from Messrs Willett and Gray. OF
90. York, the sugar authorities Of the "
Pr, crn world. place our crop Of cane 81
'u. this year at 2is. 7a5 tons, a gain OF
49,. tons over last years crop The :
production for the whole world
-" creased from 5.544.4l6 in 1s9i-s
80. 1898, 5a5 tons in 1923 Thus with
high bounty we are neither kecl
n de- Pacs w" ,s,,,,,,i., ton
} has WAN o1'