Omaha daily bee., 1895-12-07
CANE SUGAR.
Total all countrics.. 3,575, SIS 500 sos, SAP sic
BEET SUGAR.

Total all countries..... 3''O,siS629 SluS,h42olt
BEET SUGAR.
Germany ................. 25i,6s1971 sll, 063 SOS
Total all countries........ 5lO,S5O,2i6 1913 04l
In addition to this, Louisiana may be
counted on for about 500, 900 pounds OF
cane. while the local beet sugar crop cuts
only very small figure in the trade at large.
There is a certain amount of dutiable sugar
of a higher grade imported each year, and in
1894 this was 5S,965,576 pounds, OF value OF
50. .236 S32. There is an export trade in re-
fined sugar of about 15, 100000 pounds year,
of total value of about three-quarters of a
million dollars. These figures give the whole
sugar situation in very simple, clear fashion,
and show that the people Of the United States
eat yearly about o000,00O,000 pounds OF
sugar, imported and domestic. and of this
amount Cuba supplies nearly or quite one
half.
Where does the Sugar trust stand in this
crisis? This is question which its mag
mates answer when it is put to them with
shrug of the shoulder and an adherence
to their fixed policy of silence. 1t has been
hnted and charged that the trust managers
were lending substantial assistance to the
struggling Cubans When asked whether 1T
is so they reply, Fudge" which may mean
yes or no. 1t is not impossible that an un-
derstanding about concession from the
republic of Cuba Libre when it is formed
may have been a condition precedent to
any assistance. Or it is equally not un-
likely that the trust people may not worry
over the destruction Of the Cuban pla!,ta-
tions.
The trust people, BONE of them, are
holders of Cuba sugar property, but the
trust is an international buyer. 1t bids in
Hawaii and Java for its sugar supply each
day and the price of refined sugar Is fixed
in relation to the ruling and prospective
prices for raw sugar. If the destruction of
every Cuban plantation should double the
worlds price for raw sugar at o'clock this
morning, before 10 O'Clock the trust would
double the price Of it's refined output and
the American people would be called upon
to pay twice as much as now for the filling
of every sugar bowl on every breakfast table
the land over.
The trust is also a speculator in raw sugar
and it may be taken as settled fact that,
no matter how the fight in Cuba may end
and whether or no the trust r. meddling in
the fracas, 1t will come out ON top as raw
sugar buyer, and still more so as a refined
sugar seller, to say nothing of the magnf-
cent opportunities this day-to-day uncer-
tainty affords for playing the market on the
$40, 900, 900 of sugar stock which is kicking
about the speculative arena.
A few weeks ago that mass of stock was
quoted as worth about SS4000,O00. Since
then it has been selling on a basis of about
$72, 900, 900, or drop of S12OO000O.
AS the United States takes the majority
of the Cuban sugar, so 1t is American money
which is invested in Cuban plantations.
Spanish capital, If there is any such, is not
invested there But in Boston, New York
and Philadelphia may be gathered a score of
men who are the real owners of the $20,-
900 now imperilled by the order of Gen.
eral Campos.
1t Is the American pocket individually as
well as the American palate generally which
is interested in this sugar chapter of the
war, and already strong influences are at
work to bring those facts before the authori
ties at Washington, both administrative and
legislative