Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-08-20
DENIS DISAPPOINTED.
FAIL IN EFFORTS TO p,scREp,T
THE DINGLEY LAW.
Business Ia Improving and the Pco-
pie Are Pleased with Work ON the
TnriF-The Sugar Duty Will stinu-
late Beet and Cane Sugar Growing.
New Law All Right.

seAS
to befog the atmosphere with their
cries about trusts. and especially the
Sugar Trust, and second, to show that
the new revenue law was no revenue
producer. is II failure. In both these cf
forts they are to be disappointed. Ger
tainly their effort to make the Dinrley
bill as it became law advantageous
to the Sugar Trust as compared Will,
the Democratic law which it repealed,
was an absolute failure. Nobody be-
l1eves that; the men who made the as
sertion do not believe it themselves:
in fact, they know better. Now it
seems likely that they are to be tlisap.
pointed in an opportunity to complain
Of the new law as Il revenue producer.
1t is certainly starting off in Il way
which surprises its enemies and de-
lights its friends. In the few days in
which it has beer i'll operation, the Gus
tom rates under it have been very sat
isfactory. far in advance OF those un-
der the Wilson law in Il corresponding
period OF its history.
Business improvements.
The expectations of the friends of the
new law III regard to it's effect upon
business is being rapidly and satisfac-
torily realized. TlsNt there is Il marked
improvement in business conditions all
over thu etuntry is perfectly apparent
both frFN letters and kilograms which
are beAg received here. and from the
publications. in the newspapers as well.
A large number of letters and tele-
grams have been received here in the
last two days showing a marked inn
prOvcment in business conditions in all
parts OF the country. While, of course,
much of this is due to the good crops
and good prices, enormous expectations
which have brought large sums Of
money into the country and other fav-
or:lble conditions of this kind, there can
be no doubt that the enactment of the
new law and the confidence thus cre-
ated, has had an important and plainly
perceptible effect in stimulating busi-
ness activity. opening factories and
general improvement both in the actual
conditions and in that prime factor.
confidence.
Sugar Production to Bc Stimulated.
There are few men in the United
States better posted OH sugar produce
ton and its possibilities than Congress
man Meyer of Louisiana. who has
spent lifetime in the heart of the
sugar producing district of the United
States. He says frankly that he be-
lievcs sugar production both us to cane
and bects will receive a greater stimu-
lus from the enactment of the new tar
iff law than anything that has been
done for it. 1t may be added i'll this
connection that the rate of protection
given to sugar by the new law is great
err than ever given to this interest un-
der any preceding law. Possibly the
actual amount of protection rer pound
may have been greater under other
laws. but the fact that the cost of pro-
ducing sugar and that prices the world
over are now so low. makes the ad
valorem rate of protection which is
given by this law greater than any iii
the past.
ut seems to me" said Congressman
Meyer, talking to Il correspondent upon
this subject. that sugar production in
tie United States ought to be greatly
stimulated by this law. l believe ,lia,
we can and should, and hope certain
IL that we VII, produce in this coun-,
try all the sugar that our people re-
Quiee."
"Do YOU refer to beet sugar. Mr..
Meyer, or to cane sugar when you .alli
about producing enough for the people
OF this country"
Both. We shall, feel sure. in
crease our production of cane sugar
very greatly. This increased pioduc-
tion will undoubtedly stimulate our
producers and increase the rumbcr of
producers. We ought to increase large
ly the quantity of cane sugar produced
in this country"
rs there additional area not ccc,l-
pied suitable for that purpose. Mr..
Mcycr:"
"Yes. plenty of it. In Louisiana there
is a good deal: in Texas and Florida
also much land suitable for this pur.
pose"
do you expect to see the production
of beet sugar develop throughout the
North:"
Undoubtedly. Conditions have been
SO thoroughly tested by those s,a,ly-
ing this subject that there can he. 1
think, no doubt of the entire l,r,ctica-
bility of producing beet sugar in a
broad strip Of country stretching from
the Atlantic to the Pacific, and look
to see that interest develop very rap.
idly under this new law.
will the additional protection which
this law gives prove any more advan.
tageous to the beet sugar enterprise
than to cane?"
"In one sense it may. The cane sugar
industry is already well developed.
while that Of beet sugar is not. 1t takes
less capital to go into the production Of
sugar beets than it does to produce
cano s,lpar because beetS can lle trims.