Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1895-09-20
OUR AMERICAN SUGAR
It Should Be Used in Prefer
ence to China's Product.
ENCOURAGE HOME INDUSTRIES
Every American should Demand the
Native Product and See That
He Gets 1t.

1nhaDltAnLS OF tno OulOeu SVoSOo "Ae
most prosperous people and consume
more OF both the necessities and lux
uries of life, generally speaking, they
are behind the English in the oonsump-
tion of sugar.
In lS90,9i the sugar used in tho
United Kingdom was an amount equal
to ISL Ia pounds per capita, while
the figures show an average consump'
ton in the United. States OF only
sol Ia pounds per capita.
What the reasons are for this great
difference have puzzled many persons,
and we must look carefully for them II
we are to find the causes.
| American morkmen receive more pay
than the laborers of any other country,
and as rule have the money to obtain
for their table everything wanted. 1t
seems fair to assume the Older the
country and civilization the more care
fully are the questions OF household
economy and hygiene studied, and II
this is true why can we not argue from
the premise stated that we have failed
to great degree in discovering the
wholesomeness and the economy OF
using large amounts of sugar?
Looking at this question from the
national side we see some reasons why
we should he heavy consumers OF
sweets and again we see that we are
Obliged to buy most Of the sugar we
use from other countries, and we owe
lit Ito ourselves to carefully consider
what we as individuals can do to stim.
ulate the sugar producing and sugar
manufacturing and sugar consuming
Industries Of our countries.
The United States sent out OF the
country in 1898 the enormous sum oi
$l16, 900, 900 for sugar, and this amount
if it only could have been retained al
home would have done much to make
this country prosperous and woulc
have been great help during tht
awful panic of the last two years. Th'
policy of the United States has beer
i very clearly determined to be of pro
lection to home industry and hom'
manufactures, and whether we con
slider the recent tariff laws as wise o.
; unwise the fact remains that they ar
; unpopular and do not fill the bill.
The question of protection is popula
and if the voice of the people is thu
voice Of wisdom we may all be pardon
, ed for the maintenance Of those opin
ions which will help to shape the do
, nestle snd foreign policies OF tn
:; United States for the ensuing genera
! tions. .
q If it were necessary that we shoul
! buy staple like sugar abroad in orde
o that we might sell our surplus OF othe
!; products we might perhaps as well bu
. sugar as anything else, but this is nc
q the case. We can sell our products
: the worlds price, and that is what W
o do always when we export; if we ca
take back coin instead of other prod
ucts that under the right conditions W
o can raise at home we are so much tn
3 better off and the imports OF none
i will assist us in maintaining our cul
! rency without having to pay sue
= prices for our credit as we have recen
, ly paid.
> Again we come to the question
l. practical Importance: How can you {
a citizen do anything to promote tt
70 objects the country desires to obtain?
Il In the first place, what kind
- sugar do you consume yourself?
Charity and wisdom begin, or shoul
begin, at home.
If you buy sugar, do you ever II
,s quire as to whether you are gettir
that of domestic production or mani
70 facture? If you do not you have ne
n lected your duty as an American cit
@. zen and you should remove the bea
le of carelessness from your own eye b
In fore you censure your representativ
i and senator's for overlooking son
Z. things that might promote the welfa
~ Of your country.
ID II is true that we not only impo
at immense quantities of raw sugar, b
TO on the Pacific coast pernicious ira
Ilt has recently sprung up in the man
ed factured sugar Of China, many rets
ne grocers handling it surreptitiously.
ne Think of it, in a section OF t
% United States as sparsely capitalized
70 the West coast, actually sending
money to notoriously cheap lab
'se country for an article of househo
~ consumption which is refined and pl
10 duced at home.
"a OF what use are such legislative 9
ler actments as the Chinese exclusion {
Nv if our people, the very ones who VIC
as most clamorous for the prevention
u u the competition of cheap labor, are {
~ ing to suffer their hard earned coin
iel be sent to China for sugar rein
there?
" The idea that the price Of sugar
n z, kept at its present low figures ON
=, ~ Pacific coast by the importation
~ Hong Kong sugar is an erroneous OF
~ ~ for whenever the American refner
- advance the Chinese importers have
81 y. variably followed. If American grs
In In uIated sugar was selling at say nj
~ cents today the price of foreign wor
AZ. $1,000 ntn ku.x<ls ta ~