The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1894-03-22
An Tnportsnt letter.

VI htlTthentatlNtSt h'uiu ny ihpthinE
the sugar industry Of the United States
injure not only very materially our own
large business which it took years 10 ca.
tablish, but also that Of thousands OF
otheritlrms doing business with the SUI
gar industry, beg your indulgence to
bring TO your kind consideration some
Of the most potent points in favor of the
protection OF this industry. My plea is
based on 20 years practical experience
and close observation of all the details
concerning the points at issue.
first started my public career IN the
beet sugar factories Of Austria, and this
industry, only the intense fostering care
of the various governments. became the
formidable competitor of the tropical
cane sugar, supporting now millions of
laborera at home and permitting, under
a bounty system, the export of said beet
sugar in competition with the cane SUI
gar! Ii this was accomplished by legis-
latiye care in Europe, why should not
the same results be brought about in the
United States? We should produce the
sugar we consume at home, employing
millions OF our laborers in producing
the same, who would otherwise be for
ced to seek employment in other coun-
tries at this industry. We have not on
ly the soil and climate for both the cane
and beet sugar production, and there
lacks nothing but the legislative foster
ing care to develop these resources and
export American sugar to foreign lands,
What reason should there exist for PER-
hitting millions Of dollars to go abroad
for one commodity which after ten or
twenty years Of fostering care should be
produced as chcaply at home az it is now
manufactured abroad?
Fince citizen OF the United STATES /
hake devoted almost my entire time TO
the Louisiana sugar industry, travelling
during the harvest season from planta-
tiln to plantation, which puts me in
, Possession OF inside facts and knowledge
WNch very few possess, rs to the posi-
~ ties-of that State as a sugar producer.
You are fully informed OF the finan-
clal condition Of Louisiana at the close
OF the civil war. As YOU are aware it
was very hard work for Lousona plan
tiers to climb up and get the credit for
the necessary improved machinery TO
cheaper the production OF sugar in order
TO cheaper the production OF sugar in
order to compete with the world. Slowly
but surely progress has been accomplig-
he'd. Then came tho bounty promise of
fifteen years by the United States Con-
gress and the confidence given the capt.
talist with this promise created pro-
gross during these three years Of its ex-
, istence which can hardly be realized by
} anyone who is not close observer OF
this industry II thie bounty be main
tanned during these - years as it uu-
questionably should bc in due respect
for bonafde gov,u,ment promise, OF
at least be replaced w.,h a Two cent tar
IN for revenue durias this liked period.
VIC eani talists with renewed confidence
IN Thea greatgovcrnment-wcg.t. gsitAou.
hesitation construct large number OF
sugar houses of twenty TO fifty million
bpounds capacity for each harvesting sea
son in beet and cane sugar sections and
1.-THE cost of production would be so re-
duced M to enable competition with the
world.
All the lands surrounding such factor
les would be forced into cultivation OF
cane or beets to supply the same, aud
the improbable cotton, wheat, corn and
rice crops would be diminished in the
same proportion as cane and beet would
increase, In all the above crops we have
an overproduction and in sugar alone
we import seyen.eights OF our own con-
sumption, without mentioning the DOS
sibilities OF export, just as we now do
with wheat, corn and cotton. The now
existing houses OF Louisiana, Texas and
Kansas, Of one and two millions pounds
capacity and therefore workingat a big
financial disadvantage, would gradually
consolidate into large profitable esiab-
->--<z. But this Capitalization of
&c cement Of sugar houses requir-
es time, airing which the fostering care
of the government is unavoidable in or
der that the desired end may be accom-
plished. In the meantime the industry
would he destroyed by foreign COMPETE
ton. The results obtained in the beet
sugar industry in Europe should be con-
vincing proof to any statesman what
this fostering care has accomplished and
the same results can therefore be expgc
ted at home. 1t it only n question OF
time when the United States sugar in
dustry can become seli-sustaining and
be able 10 compete with the world in
sugar production by Capitalization Of
sugar houses.
To strike the beet and cane sugar IN.
dustry out Of existence by one legislative
stroke without giving il chance OF exc
isience ia this vast agricultural common
wealth, will be unique barbarous
stroke OF craftsmanship that even the
Gar OF Russia would hardly be guilty Of.
In conclusion will endeayor TO show
what this industry means to those OF The
Union which have no land or climate
adapted to the production OF sugar
II We visit a sugar plantation We viii
find that, practically speaking, there i.
nothing to be found on the same but
what is produced in other States OF this
great Union. Sugar farms Droduce