Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1901-12-28
The Beet Sugar Industry.

h,,.,, nx,,,i,. 49,, ,,,,,,i,.,. ,-t....
"'''''' 'N'"'" """ N''''''s '''"s
on the beet sugar industry In this
country appparol on tho editorial n,yn
Va WV Nv" '''" '''''''"H ''s' VI ''''
cemNer l. last, and MS every house,
n,,, +, a., lam, T., ,,,,r,s,,, f., .,,,,.
- ~" '' '', ''s"'
TIE article VIII be of universal interest
THE RECT SI,GAR INnI Srpy
inc iN'h'nE lost hiuS 'he h'@riiest
welcome 10 every American lh"usiry
mat can stand on It's own bottom and
make lis way without leaning on the
poor rates Among these self support
ing Industries We are glad 10 KNOW Is
the production OF beet sugar At all
events, II WAS such two years ago. We
publish elsewhere Il letter written in
lNM, ana signed 10y Mr.. ONuari aud
Mr.. Cutting, the chiefs ot this indus
try on the eastern side oi the Rocky
Mountains, showing That this was III"
happy condition OF the trade NJ 'hAt
time. If parties m"sNnrr"dnS IA beet
sugar producers are h'Hl'E'hS the
President ana congress III TINS mo-
mrni, and pretending tIat 'hrA VIII 10
ruined II CUBAN sugar Is ad''h'td Tor
SIX months ~ hali lhe pres"n' rates OF
duty their false pretehces ought to be
exposed.
Tie letter or MeSSrs. oNlard ana
Cutting was probably written for the
purpose OF inducing the farmers of tile
Mississippi Valley 10 go more largely
into the cultivation OF hceis Tor the
sugar factories. Tins was lAudable
motiv" for telling the trulh ANA show
ing the large profits which awaited
poth the Meet grower ana the manufN'-
iurcr IL the industry were perSeNcr'
ihgiN ana ihI"ll'g"h'lS prosecuted. 10
TINS END II was pointed ont that farin-
erS could clear sta per acre 10y cult
waiting heets, ana might even make
Nloo. but III oFHrr 10 assure the cultl-
Nator mat he would not he exposed to
reverS's by possible changes IN the
tarli, ln'N proceeded 10 snow lhAt the
inm"S''S S'o'" III no n'''' Vi I'''''''"'''
ne p'et sugar INDUSTRY 'h'se gen
tlehen say stands on as hrm basis
ms any business in the country They
point out the fact--a very important
onc-that their product comes out ms Il
finished article, refined ana graduated.
1t IS not ike cane sugar grown IN the
West lnula Islands, BRICK ana ot1cn-
slNe paste. which must be carried IN
wagons TO the scaDoafu ana thrhce ny
sill'S 10 'he ,hl'cu states, Where, AZ
Ter ahother hanuiinE, II Is put through
n costly refinery and then Skinned by
rail to the consumer. who NAV poss.
bly be in Nebraska, alongside n beet
sugar factory, which turns out the re-
fined and granuated article at one fell
producer OF beet sugar for SUPPLYING
the domestic CONSUMPTION are very
great. We have no doubt that Messrs.
OXnard and Cutting are within bounds
when they say that sugar can be pro.
duced here cheaper than it can be in
Europc." The reasons for this ara
that
.Tho Sr,,r industry, e. or,or al
merely IN nprirulturnJ ono wn cam
undcrsel Europp in all other crops.
and sugar is no exception"
1t follows as naturally as the making
of flour from wheat. If we can pro-
duce wheat cheaper than Europe. then
naturally we can produce flour chcap.
er. as we do.
But the writer's of the letter do not
lepend upon -priori reasoning TO proye
lhat they can make sugar mt n profit
without tariff protection. They MONT
90 he r">, Mat "ndei tne MvSin.s1
'arifr or lS"", when sugar was free OF
duty, rhe price of the article was four
cents per pound. Yet net proht OF S3
Der ton was made 10y the beet sugar
factories under those conditions, not
counting any bounty on the home pro-
duction OF sugar They boast that
hey made this profit while working
under absolute free trade. and they
have right to be proud of this result
Of their skill ana Industry Many
beet sugar factories had been ,Srted
IN hygOne years, back in the sixties
and seventies of the nineteenth CEN
Jury, and had failed, because the pro-
iectors did not understand the bust
ness. Since then great progress has
Decn made, both here and abroad, in
he cultivation aud manipulation of the