The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-11-11
EQUITIES ARE NOW INVOLVED
Question Of Public Policy an Important
Factor
Possibilities Of the Home Production Of
Sugar
Investments Already Hade Running Par
Into the HiilIons-The Chino
Valley Beet Sugar Conn
pany Plant

The growth and development of the
beet sugar industry of this state furnishes
. study of national interest and impor-
lance. 1t is an example OF the birth OF a
now and untried enterprise which prom
Uses to supply long.fslt want IN the
national economy. 1t is the beginning Of
what may be reasonably looked upon as
one OF the most important productive
efforts which has been launched during
our history. 1t promises to emanoipate
America from the forced contribution to
foreign enterprise which the homo de-
mani for sugar has entailed Tor GEN.
fury. It brightens the hope that the day
10 near at hand, granted the enactment
of favorable legislation, when the mil
lions now sent abroad for sugar will be
expended in the American market as a
reward for the enterprise OF American
capital and for the employment of Am er-
ican labor.
Under the fostering care of national
guardianship Germany has advanced to
the foremost place among the nations OF
the earth in she development of sugar
making from the sugar beet. The pre-em-
inence OF that nation has become, IN this
industry, absolute. 1t has gwen to her
q comm anding position in the markets.
of the world as related to one Of the most
important enterprises among men. To
day this nation alone pays tribute to her
In yearly accounts which are possible OF
computation only in millions. Her ma
tional patronage of the industry has en-
abled her capitalists, artisans and farmers
to develop by experiment perfect plan
and mechanism whereby sugar of SUI
peiror quality Ia produced ana at price
within the reach OF all. So great has been
her progress In few yoHrs that even the
unmatched American inventor IS now
Obliged to take lessons in German
methods to enable him to prosecute the
industry. German machinery, German
methods and German workmen must all
be consulted in the founding of the enter
prise by any nation undertaking to man.
ufacture sugar.
These truths are alluded to for the rur-
pose of recsllinR the fact that what has
been done by Germany can be as we'll
and speedily done in America, given
equally favorable conditions. The whole
history of discovery and invention since
the birth of this republic sustains this
position. There is not a line of orig
NAL research, either in theoretical or ap-
piled physics, in which American genius
has not led the van whenever and
wherever II has become enlisted. Our
mechanical achievements hdV Deen such
as to arouse the unbounded admiration
Of the world. At our great world show ut
Chicago, American directnass and COM
prehensiveness of method and means 90.
cured the highest awards IN every line in
m m nj uua mr. Ia In ha affO W.
now being made by m erican enterprise to
supply the home market with homemade
sugar, instead of leaving us to depend
upon foreigners for nine. tcnths OF it, new
victories are already in sigh, and need
only fair encouragement to be secured.
What has been achieved in Am erican
LOGON otive. steamship, ordnance and
cutlery production can be achieved IN
American sugar prod uction.
The Importance of supplying the Amer
lean market with American made sugar
cannot be overestimated. Already the
industry has attained such i'm portance as
to become u matter of the utmost concern
to 1t least three Of the great states of the
union. IL involves the enlistment of
millions of dollars of capital IN profitable
channels, the tillaae of thousands Of a ,res
Of land not otherwise available for so
profitable use, and the employment of
still other thousands of farmers, artisans,
mechanics and laborers. 1t means the re-
tention in America of untold expectations
of gold, already matter of the gravest
concern; and last. and most important of
all, 1t means American independence in
the command of one Of the greatest COM
modities known to the worlds com m cree,
in the greatest ana best market in
Christendom. TIE welfare of less i'm
portant industries has engaged the at
tentiop of statesmen of all nations our
own included, for many years. That this
great enterprise, already far advanced
beyond tho experimental stage, should
fail to receive governmental support is
matter which admits OF no reasonable ex-
cuse.
When 1T IS remem bered that untold mil
lions OF tons OF raw sugar were imported
into this country Immediately previous
law became operative, for the purpose OF
Cutting this homo market and thus
sitting the efforts OF the you-g and
struggling industry at home, the oppo-
sition spirit which the American sugar
maker Is called upon to encounter may
supplied with quantity of sugar far in
advance OF the Legitimate demands Of
trade and all for no other purpose than to
make life burden to the daring capital
making In Yankeedom The baneful
effect OF that illegitimate importation Is
now felt in depressed market. the
necessary reduction OF the price of beets to
the farmer, the price of service to the
lahorer and OF just profit to the investor.
1t affords an example of the injurious
effect Of that national condition In which
there is an unlimited demand by one
country with nc means within its COM
mand whereby that demand may be sat-
isfsd. Once tho industry of sugar maxi
ing In firmly established in this country.
10 ba uta a n N
or any one Of thousand industries '' IL
which America stands supreme, and
the home market will be emanci pated
from the banefu effects of foreign de-
pendence and will be supplied with the
best and cheapest sugar that the world
mos ever known. At that time American
sugar will invade the foreign market pre-
eiseiy as American machinery of every
description known to the needs Of modern