Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-05-03
ASUGAR BOUNTY MAP
INSTRUCTIVE IN SOME WAYS, BUT
FAILS OF ITS PURPOSE.

1t Shows That the Country Is Paying S1o'
100000 Per Year to support an Industry
Yielding O., 900, 600 Profit-The Countr.
Taxed to support the Canefields.
A small map of this large country Is
distributed gratuitously where it is ex
pected to serve its purpose best, with
the compliments of Delgado & Co. 1t is
instructive in various ways, besides be-
ing in some respects picturesque. Il
shows how all roads lead to the sugar
canefelds of Louisiana. An explana.
tory remark in manuscript states that il
shows how "other sections" will be ''af
fected" by the murder of the sugar in.
dustry "by the Wilson bill as it now
stands"
Upon its face are depicted numerous
trains of cars, said to be loaded, some
with fruit from California, others with
meat from the wild west, others with
oil and coal from Pennsylvania, others
with grain from various sections, others
with manufactures of different kinds
from the east, others with COW peas from
the Carolinas and SO on, and all destined
to the eanefelds Of Louisiana. Besides
the trains there are vessels on the exag.
gerated bosom of the Mississippi, on the
gulf and on the Atlantic careering ma
jestically toward the same destination.
The inference suggested is that if the
cane growing industry should be slain
by the Wilson bill all this commerce
would cease, and all sections of the coun-
try would be involved in the Louisiana
ruin, even as the Philistines persisted
with Samson when that mighty man of
muscle pulled down the pillars of the
temple.
A summary statement in the margin
conveys the information that the total
value of the commodities shipped annu-
ally to the caneields from all parts of
the country is 500, $40, 900, and that those
fields yield $25 ,000, 900 worth of products.
1t follows that the fields do not produce
enough to pay for what they get from
other parts of the country, the deficit
being $4,910,000 annually. This is an
instructive exhibit 1t would be more
so if accompanied by an explanation of
the way in which this deficit is made
good. Perhaps it is not made good. In
that case the loss must fall upon the peo-
pie of other sections who supply the beef,
wheat, oil, mules, COW peas and other
things, and the trade might better be de-
stroyed than not.
The further information is impaired
that the $50, 900 600 worth of cane prod
ucts support 100000 people. That gives
each of them 81 .66s annually for sup
port. This also is instructive. 1t shows
at once how improbable the cane grow
support person in southern Louisiana.
The point of it all is that the bounty
of 2 cents pound must be kept up, or
the market for 500, 910, 900 worth of prod
ucts from all parts of the country will
be destroyed Calling % per cent of that
sum profits, which is liberal allow
ance, the entire profit on this trade
would be $.477. 500. But the bounty
last year exceeded $4,000, 900 year for
trade yielding q profit of less than ST.
500 900. The people would be better off
to let the trade go and keep in their
pockets what they pay in bounty to the
canegrowers.
But there is no danger of losing the
trade. The people of Louisiana may pro-
duce less sugar if they get no bounty,
but they will produce more cotton, more
rice and more of various other things.
They are not going to stop producing if
the bounty is stopped. They will pro-
duce about as much as ever and will be
able to buy about as much from the peo-
pie of other sections. There will be about
the same trade and the same profit, and
the bounty will be saved to taxpayers
Chicago Herald.