The age-herald., 1899-05-24
SECRETARY WILSON
 AT WASHINGTON Has Returned from Visit to Louis
 jana and Texas. HE DISCUSSES POLITICS
HE DISCUSSES P
Found Land Enhancing in Value, and Predicts Present Era of Low Prices Will Give Place
 to Higher Figures

Washington. May 23.-Seeretary Wilson returned today from his visit to Louisiana and Texas, which was made in conformity with the wishes of the president for the purpose of looking over the sugar, rice, tobacco, fruit, cotton, grazing and other industries of that region. He reports very considerable cooperation on the part of the producers of those states in giving him facilities for seeing everything along these lines.
 The encouragement given by the Dingley tariff will have tendency to increase the area of production and attract capital to the enterprise. The people are much more concerned over the future policy of con- gross respecting their industry than they are over the heavy loss on the coming crop by low temperatures. They are pleased to note the increase of sugar pro- duction from beets in the northern states, judging that they will not be alone in the future when public policies are framed regarding the importation of their product. The large amount of money being paid to foreign countries for saccaharine matter gives abundant opportunity for enterprises in the production of sugar within the
 
 be made by the producers of sugar to earn that money.
 Referring to the political situation the secretary said:
 '"rhe people accommodate themselves to circumstances politically. The repub lican says: We want protection Others who do not like to use the word protec- tion says: The government needs reve- nue. But however it is put, the present policies of the government are very popu- lar"
 The secretary also expressed the opinion that the encouragement gwen by the Ding ley tariff has had a marked effect on the rice producers around the gulf and that extensive arrangements are generally be- ing made to produce all the rice consumed in the United States, which he thinks will soon be brought about
 ''There seems" the secretary said, "to be very good reason for the sanguine dis position of capital and enterprise to pro- duce sugar, tobacco and rice in the gulf states, particularly sugar as it has been ascertained through extensive experimenta- tion carried on by the department of agri- culture that nearly all the northern states from New York to California are well suit ed for the production of sugar froh beets. Much has been done for sugar production in the south by scientific investigation. The sugar planters years ago secured the services of Dr. w. c. Stubes, who has not only directed all their improvements in the field and factory, but has educated young men in the sciences and arts related to su- gar production, and these young men are now found connected with nearly all the enterprises of this kind in the gulf states"
 The secretary reports that he found the tobacco and peach industries gaining a firm foothold in Texas. and that both are proving profitable. In some localities there is as much as 1.400 acres of fine Cuban to- bacco in cultivation. He found land gen. erally enhancing in value and predicts that the present era of low prices will soon give place to much higher figures.