The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-12-28
ahh BRET-sUGAR 1Npucrn.
o'nard's and C~ut,,,u,
ON the Subject. 'ews

sne Mew York Evening Post Of in
per IL last, and as everv b"N VI Deem,
iaet' every man, woman ans in
interested in sugar, 1t being 90 orS snld i,
~os. important articles of dan ., tho
our readers will thank us for iood,
ing TINS notwithstanding edit plIaq''
Inc Evening Post bids tbs hs''
~e'eome to every American inSra ess
NAT can stand on it's own bottOm s'ry
make us way without leaning on aad
poor rates. Among these sel,1s IN Tho
ing industries. we are glad to rppOrs
the production Of b~eet-sugo, "'M
events, it was such two years aro AZ al AL
publish elsewhere a letter wriit.
tssS' and signed by Mr.. oxpara N
Mr.. Cutting, the chiefs of tbi. ana
Try on the eastern side of N. pA',
mountains, showing that tbi, 10y
happy condition of the trade AZ
time. If parties masqueradinp az h.~
sugar producers are b~esieginp N.
president and congress at tbis
ment, and pretending that thew n'n
be ruined If Cuban sugar is admi...a
ior SIX months at half the pr,ssH.
rates OF duty, their false pretenss'
ought to be exposed.
The letter of Messrs. Oxnard 49,,
cutting was probably written for tbs
purpose of inducing the farmers Of thu
mississippi valley TO go more larpaIv
into h cultivation of beets for ~
sugar factories. This was a laudahlo
motive for telling the truth and show.
ing the large profits which awaited
both the beet-grower and the mann.
1acturer if the industry were persevpr.
ingly and intelligently prosecuted. tn
this end it was pointed out that farm.
ers could clear SOS per acre by %cultiyat.
ing beets, and might even make sian.
But in order to assure the cultiyator
that he would not be exposed to re.
verses by possible changes in the tar.
III, they proceeded to show that the IN.
nustry stood in no need of protectiol
The beet-sugar industry, these GEM
lemen say, stands on as firm a basi.
as any business in the country" Thew
point out the fact-a very important
one-that their product comes out ass
finished article, refined and granulat-
ed. 1t is not, like cane-sugar grownip
the West India islands, a black and of.
fensive paste, which must be carried in
wagons to the seaboard and thence BY
ships to the United States, where.
after another handling, it is put
through a costly refinery, and then
shipped by rail to the consumer, who
may possibly be in Nebraska, along.
side a b~eet-sugar factory which turns
out the refined and graduated article
at one fell swoop. Indeed, She advan.
tages of the producer of beet-sugar
for supplying the domestic consump-
ton are very great. We have no doubt
that Messrs. Oxnard and Cutting are
within bounds when they say that
sugar can be produced here cheaper
than it can be in Europe" The rel.
sons for this are that
THE sugar industry is, after all. merely
an agricultural one. We can undersell Eu-
rope in all other crops. and sugar is no e1.
CtpllOn.
1t follows as naturally as the max.
ing of flour from wheat. If we can
produce wheat cheaper than Europe,
then naturally we can produce -four
cheaper, as we do.
But the writers of the letter do not
depend upon a-priori reasoning to
prove that they car make sugar at a
profit without tariff protection. They
point to the fact that under the McKin-
ley tariff of 1890, when sugar was free
of duty, the price of the article was
4 cents per pound. Yet a net profit
of So per ton was made by the
b~eet-sugar factories under those
conditions, not counting any bounty
on the home production of sugar.
They boast that they made this profit
while working under absolute free
trade, and they have a right to be
proud of this result of their skill and
industry. Many beet-sugar factories
had been started in bygone years, back
In the sixties and seventies of the nine
teenth century, and had failed, because
the projectors did not understand the
business. Since then great progress
has been made, both here and abroad
in the cultivation and manipulation of
the beet. What was impossible thirty
years ago is now entirely feasible
The industry is already on a solid ana
enduring basis. There are factories in
the United States, these gentlemen
tell us in their letter, capable of using
$4,000 tons of beets per annum at
profit of SO per ton, and this would
make a profit of $1,o5O,O0O as an IN
come to be earned under absolute free
It must be plain to readers OF TINS
signed by the captains Of the
industry, that the people
in Washington who are declaimlng
against the temporary measure when
the president of the United States
for the relief of the Cuban peo'
pie IRE either grossly ignorant OF the
subject, or are practising gross decep'
ton. The tenable ground for themls
10 say: "Other people are having pro,
that they do not need anu
we ought to have more than
need" This would be conslsten.
the letters of Messrs. Oxnard anu
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