The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1894-06-29

nard-s agent saying me <-cent bounty
is off and we must stop.
What will you do?' l asked.
II suppose | will put in wheat and
corn again. 1t is too bad that this coun
try has got to send 6O,OOO.0OO worth Of
wheat and corn after sugar every year
when we could make it here at home and
reduce our wheat and corn crops
What do you remember about making
beet sugar in Germany | asked
Il remember Germany used to pay out
$40, ,OOO. 900 year for sugar. This troub-
led Bismarck. and he told King William
that this sugar ought to be made at home.
Then Bismarck set the government chem
istexperimenting with beets. He had the
Reichstag pass law paying sugar rails
ers o-cent bounty"
"How did it result I asked
why. Germany is now not only max
ing her own S4OOOO.O 900 worth of sugar.
but she is sending $1OOOO.OOO worth of
sugar to America. and the bounty is now
reduced to l cent
| In conversation with Henry J. Ok
nard about beet sugar in Nebraska he
said:
I'VE can make $4,000, 900 worth of
beet sugar annually in Nebraska. and will!
do i if the government will stand by us
| until we get started
| Then you think it good policy to foster
this new sugar industry here?'
"Of course. When we make our own
sugar we will save this country $50. .OOO,-
OOO year. 1t is cheap enough for this
government to pay out S9.OOO,OOO Il year
for few years to gain an industry which
will give to our laboring people 5000. .OOO.-
GOO in ten years And then we will take
off the bounty and we will have our own
cheap sugar forever"
! will the taking off of the bounty kill
the industry"
mo. but it will stop its increase. We
will try to keep our factories running to
save our machinery till the administration
is changed and then hope to extend the
had gotten all ready to build big factory
in the suburbs of their city. Public meet
! ings at the Board Of Trade have been
! held and money subscribed | am afraid
this will fall through. Capital is timid.'
| Sugar, l say, is the salvation OF the
wheat farmer and the cotton planter.
| High prices will come for whea: and cot
| ton when we reduce the quantity. and not
tlll then. and sugar alone will do it. This
| $50. .OW. 600 which we will annually save
on foreign made sugar will all go to our
| laboring men. 1t will eventually make
| cheaper sugar and lift both planter and
| farmer to prosperity.-Eli Perkins.
Republicani.m in Colleges.
| It probably panied the Democratic free
| trade soul of President Eliot when he
learned that Saturday last Il Southern
New England League of College Republic
an clubs was formed in atfiliation with
Yale, Williams Amherst Brown, Tufts.
Wesleyan. Boston University and the
| Worcester Polytechnic Institute were rep
resented at the meeting.
The meeting Of these clubs is signif-
cant. as it gives the lie to the statement
so frequently made that the Eastern col.
leges. especially Harvard, are hOtbeds OF
free trade SO far as Harvard is con
cerned its Democratic Free Trade Club is
dead. while its Republican Protection
Club is alive and kicking. as President
Eliot discovered the other day when he re-
fused it the use of the Sanders Theater
for its meetings. Of the political COM
plexion of this university, the Boston
Journal says:
or l5S Harvard men who have held high Of
fee in the state or national government, ia
were believers in the principles Of the Repub-
lican party, and only thirty nine were Demo-
Gratis. Of the students who graduated from
Harvard between 1885 and 1892 7l2 were Repub-
licans and 365 were Democrats and = careful
canvass Of the university in 1892 developed the
fact that the Republican majority was greater
than it was in 1SSs-that is, that the Republican
strength at Harvard was steadily increasing.
The same is true of Yale College. In
1889 there were 80 free traders and 43
protectionists in its senior class, while in
1893 there were 36 free traders and Il
protectionists in the same class. Fur
thermore, says the Journal:
At Williams canvass found ia students who
favored Harrison to only fOrty-seven who sup
ported Cleveland. Amherst in 1892 reported
licans, 16 per cent. Democrats, and per cent.
Prohibitonists. III the College of LIBERAL Arts
OF Boston University lately the Republicans out
numbered the Democrats five to one. At TUFTS
College a recent graduating class contained
eighteen Republicans to one poor solitary DEM
ocrat. At Wesleyan the Republicans comprise
Is per cent. of the student body. and there are
actually fewer Democrats than Prohibitionists.
Though it is long time before the next
general election comes off the college
undergraduates. as it appears. propose to
put themselves in evidence when the oc-
casion shall require it and to line up by
the side of the Republican alumni in the
fight with the free-trade enemy. It is
evident. further, that while they take
science. literature and the classics from
presidents and faculties they do not take
their politics from them. The college
clubs will be heard from in 1896.
Epigrams from McKinley's Minneapolis
Speech.
Is the national distress, the business de-
preston and the universal poverty of the
people, which have relentlessly followed
the enactment of every revenue tariff
measure in all our history, to be lost upon
us in the calm consideration of this eco
nolnic subject:
The past year has been a long one
Labor, more than all, and dearer to US
than all, has succumbed to the wasting
blasts Of the great change by which in
dustry has been cheated Of it's just re-
wards.
While the Republican party failed to
carry the last election, the. cause for
which it contended did not fail 1t sur
vived the awful disaster and shines more
brilliantly and gloriously than ever be-
fore.
The Democratic party has suffered-a
calamity we could bear with resignation
il it had not also carried in it's train the