The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1895-11-09
OUR AMERICAN SUGAR
It Should Be Used in Prefer
ence to China's Product.
ENCOURAGE HOME INDUSTRIES
Native Product and See That
He Gets IL.

inhabitants Of the United States are a
most prosperous people and consume
more of both the necessities and lux
uries of life, generally speaking. they |
are behind the English in the consump-
ton of sugar.
In lS9O-91 the sugar used in the
United Kingdom was an amount equal
to ISL IL pounds per capita, while
the figures show an average consump-
ton in the United States Of only
59l 1-2 pounds per capita.
What the reasons are for this great
difference have puzzled many persons,
and we must look carefully for them if
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 if
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 be 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
it to ourselves to carefully consider
what we as individuals can do to slim
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 of
$116, 900, 900 for sugar. and this amount
if it only could have been retained at
home would have done much to make
this country prosperous and would
have been a great help during the
awful panic Of the last two years. The
policy Of the United States has been
very clearly determined to be of pro-
lection to home industry and home
manufactures, and whether we con-
slider the recent tariff laws as wise or
unwise the fact remains that they are
unpopular and do not fill the bill.
The question of protection is popular
and if the voice of the people is the
voice of wisdom we may all be pardon
ed for the maintenance of those opin-
+ ions which will help to shape the do.
nestle ard foreign policies Of the
United Stat IS for the ensuing genera
tions.
If it were necessary that we should
. L.. 10 lfl~a oIroad in ordQt
that we might sell our surplus of Other
; products we might perhaps as well buy
sugar as anything else, but this is moi
the case. We can sell our products a
the worlds price, and that is what W.
D do always when we export; if we cal
take back coin instead of other prod
q ucts that under the right conditions w
can raise at home we are so much thu
better off and the imports Of none,
: will assist us in maintaining our cur
: rency without having to pay sucl
. prices for our credit as we have recent
, ly paid.
: Again we come to the question o
practical importance: How can you a
: a citizen do anything to promote tn
= objects the country desires to obtain?
= = In the first place, what kind o
sugar do you consume yourselfg
Charity and wisdom begin, or shoul
begin, at home.
If you buy sugar, do you ever in
'e quire as to whether you are gettin
that of domestic production or manu-
70 facture? If you do not you have neg
J. lected your duty as an American cit
9 zen and you should remove the bear
10 of carelessness from your own eye bt
n fore you censure your representative
i and senators for overlooking som
S things that might promote the welfaI
y of your country.
10 1t is true that we not only impol
~ immense quantities Of raw sugar, br
20 ON the Pacific coast pernicious trad
~ has recently sprung up in the MANI
81 featured sugar of China, many reta
10 grocers handling it surreptitiously.
10 Think of it, in a section of II
y United States as sparsely capitalized |
the West coast, actually sending i
money to a VIGOROUSLY cheap lab
- country for an article Of househo
y consumption which is refined and pr
" duced at home.
80 OF what use are such legislative e
- actments as the Chinese exclusion a
-, if our people, the very ones who we
- most clamorous for the prevention
"A the competition of cheap labor, are &
~ ing to suffer their hard earned coin
as be sent to China for sugar refn'
80 there?
\ The idea that the price Of sugar
va kept at its present low figures ON q
,Iv Pacific coast by the importation
~ Hong Kong sugar is an erroneous on
ho for whenever the American refneri
% advance the Chinese importers have
Ne variably followed. II American gra
ON ulated sugar was selling at say nj
cents today the price of foreign won
be about the same. The truth is tn
supply and demand makes the worlC
he market ON sugar as it does ON wht
est and other great staples. and when t
in New York and London markets a
nj vance OF decline the price of all suga
rs. either American or Chinese, is i
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