Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1895-08-26

EX-SENATOR CHARLES MANDERsoN
ON THE FUTURE or BeeT SUGAR.
Hs Tells Oath That what IL Needed IL .
Small bounty Ia the Fsrmsr-Mschinery
VIII Overcome Foreign Peasant Labor.
The story Of beet sugar.

buuhii sSOuuty tO the Bmrmer-me
VIII Overcome Foreign Peasant Labor.
The story Of beet sugar.
Charles MandersOn, native Of Philadci-
phia, reared and married at Canton, o.,
volunteer private, fighting colonel of his
regiment, general In tho war, United
States sonGtor TWO terms and the most
popular senator of his day, eminent law
yer Of Omaha and general counsel for tho
Burlington railroad system, expressed
himself 10 me on better times at the Ori-
entail hotel GDd In Sousa's concert as fol
lows;
"The eros Of Nebraska and the west ut
largo lnsures business fortitudc and
money 10 buy and pay. / have come from
Salt Lake City through Washington, where
argued the case Of the beet sugar bounty,
and have just arrived here and am at once
10 fly home.
1.-The greatest of questions In the y,est
Is soon TO be tho beet sugar question. IL
will produce In this year Of 1895 AZ, 900 900
pounds Of sugar, though We have only four
American factories, Of which two are In
Nebraska, mt Norfolk and Grand Island ;
one at Lenhi, In Utah, and one In. Califor
MIA, ut Chino, tho latter tho largsst OF all.
Of sugar, Nebraska IL, 600, 900 pounds,
Utah 10, 900, 900 pounds. And yet so vast
is the use of sugar that Ncbraska's por-
tion will only DC one seventh Of her con-
sumption of sugar. She eats 80, 900, 900
pounds per annum.
"Tho consumption OF sugar is so pounds
per head OF the American people. This
nation pays $3.50, 600, 900 annually for sug-
han ~
country but England, which, having no
fruits TO ripen, sweetens her marmalades,
ETC., heavily. England's consumption Is
80 pounds per head. AS Germany, France,
Austria, ETC., pay export bounties TO ship
us this sugar, why do we not give 1t to our
own people?
"That will be the demand OF the west.
In few years we shall overcome the COM
petition Of peasant labor by mechanical
devices. Our machinery works will have
thousand millions Of machines to fur
nish. The vast scandal of the rehneries
here making IL per cent and extra divi-
dends Is an object lesson to the west.
"Sir, when the west adds beet sugar to
the riches Of American agriculture, these
refneries In their colossal trust must stop,
for beet sugar requires no refining. And
immense opening chapter Of sugar produc-
tion In the west.
kentucky is about to set up factory.
Nebraska has set the example OF state pro-
lection by Offering to pay flve-eighths OF a
cent per pound, conditional upon the fac
tories paying IS ton for the produced
beets. This Is a clear picture Of the state
of the agricultural mind upon the question.
,t;.x H..
5000 acres Of beets In 1894 to 5000 acres
in 1895. II the government would pay
the 2 cents per pound bounty ii agreed to
pay, the production would be instant and
immense, would offset the foreign export
duties and take from state bounties their
disputed legality and tendency to create
local instead Of general patriotism.
"At So per ton for beets we'll cultivat.
ed Nebraska acre would yield Is tons-S75
But 1t Is the most expensive and careful
cultivation ever attempted here.
"This beet industry began in the most
natural way. A few Germans from beet
provinces sent home for the seed and
planted beets at Grand Island, Neb. They
proved the conditions of the soil more ia
vorable than Bohemia or Germany, 16 to
II per cent sugar instead of 13 and IA per
cent Of saccharine matter, or one-fourth,
has been produced in special assorted lots
of Nebraska beets.
Already" said Mr.. Manderson, "the
expense of hand gathering and topping the
beets and throwing them from the fur
row where they grow upon the wagon has
been obviated by machine, run by one
horse, which scoops the beets up, and Is
like an application of the reaper and
binder. The next thing will be to thin
out the beets by machine. The crop Is a
marvel in its tenacity against drought.
With its tops withered, it's root plunges
deeper in the soil and makes sugar as II
from the furnace heat. / almost believe
that sugar Is born in the beams Of the sun.
Here Is the story Of American beet
sugar. The ground must be carefully pre-
pared, the seed imported and carefully
sifted, the earth pulverized, the beets
thinned in spring and the ground again
be carefully gone over the thinning done
by hand, and the crop topped. They are
then poured into hopper which has run
ming water or ditch at the bottom, and
the beets move forward and arc washed Ivy
revolving brushes till the beet meat Is as
white as paper.
"Now raised to the top Of tho factory In
quantities of 500 pounds they are weighed
and registered automatically, and pass
down to the shredding machines, huge
coffee mill thing, which works knives till
tho beets look like q tapeworm or ribbons.
Now they go on to the vats, Is or 10 In
number, which extract the sugar till the
last vat Is sugar water. The beet refuse,
meantime, Is saved as q splendid cattle
fattener.
"As the sugar water contains salts which
prevent capitalization, limewater Is now
added In vessel like big accordion, and
tho salts adhere to the lime, while the pure
sugar goes on to the vacuum pan and Is
boiled In vacuo. It's next step Is to be
purified Of It's molasses by centrifugal ma
chimes, and the drying pans take 1t up and
pass IL out clear granulated sugar. 1t has
entered dirty beets, and 1t emcrges refined
sugar. George Alfred Townsend In New
York Journal.
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