The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-06-19

ApFopos 70 tie dlscuasiol In Congress
coucolnlhg ne Possibilities OF the devel-
opnI1ut Of n vast beet sugar industry, in
connection With the sugar schedule Of
he tSfift bill. everything on the subject
= ruaa with interest. The farmers es-
pscllIly are interested in knowing what
he lbiItio1ura for ne opening up of
q new feld for them.
IA thIs connection the Intelligencer
herewith reproduees an address deliver
"a " Hon. John W. Mason. ex-United
Stats commissioner OF Internal revenue,
a. MdrgantoWn, April 8. 1884, at the dedi-
cation Of the West Virginia Experiment
tern as internal revenue commissioner
be had charge OF the payment Of the
botnolea, % sugar under the Mex nley
bill iiid md opportunity to familiarize
q with the subject OF sugar beets.
Isha repeal OF the bounty BY the Wilson
NV checked the industry which had just
beam 10 develop. Now that the subject
p aGlln Z matter Of public discussion,
lIF. hlnBon'a MOrEautown address VIII
Be fonnd fun az important Information.
Amer . few preliminary remarks Mr..
Mason said:
Tfsgi fiat need not apologies for cali
inE Sour attention to a greatly neglected
branch Of agricultural industry. refer
- no culture OF sugar beets. THIS, In
my ilid fnent, o one Of the most promis-
fng 1t tie undeve1oped agricultural In
llrltrleS OF the country. II ia now the
source OF great prodt IN many countries
whose soil and climate are apparently no
more favorable than ours The necessi-
q for increasing the production OF sugar
- tia United States will be manifest
VYh1l, uFo remember that we consume
Ynnpa SnEar than any other country; that
IN net we consume about one-fourth OF
an ffa srngar consumed In the world. and
We produce less than one-elEhth OF what
~ congume. The world produces lit
IL ~ than 1GOO0, OQO. 900 pounds Of sugar
1nr1aliy, and the United States con-
onnao8 more than 1000, 600 pounds, an
average OF more than S. pounds every
year for every man, woman and child.
We oend abroad every year more than
gi0l 800 900 TO pay for sugar. il Is the
duty Of every nation to produce what
ever Il consumes. II practicable. How
then are the psople OF the United States
70 produce. probably. eight times a.
rnuch Gugnr Annually as they now pro-
6ues9 In Ver.y little Of our territory Is
80 PRODUCTION ot sugar cane practicable.
Il q coudned almost exclusively TO the
9t1fes OF Texas, Louisiana and Florida.
we en- scarcely hope that there viii ever
bepFoduced In these states enough sugar
% Suppsy the present. 70 say nothing OF
4he idl4laSimg demands OF our people.
SUGAR can be produced from cane In
Cuba and other southern countries more
fGy0rnhls 70 Its culture. 20 much more
ciieipIy than. in the United States that
the cane producing states cannot hope to
compete with foreign markets. unnided
by the government. These states have
0iready been oided In some form by the
general government, and Il Is believed
tlIat without aid the industry would per-
Notwithstanding the did this Industry
has had, yet the increaRa In production
during the past half century has not
bes1 such aS to Justify the conclusion
thaf these state8 can produce enough
GnElr from cane TO supply our own mar
fetE Most OF the cane Eugar In the
United States Is made in the state OF
I0uialana and the increase In that state
Tor the last forty years is not at all
promising, as the following table Will