Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-03-10
THE gs:T SUGAR INDUSTRY.

Messrs. Oxnnrd's aud Cuttings views
On the Bect Sugar industry In this
country, appeared on the editorial page
of the Now York Evening Post or De
cember 18TH. 1901. and as every house
hold in the land is interested in sugar
the article viii be Of universal interest.
The Evening Post bids the heartiest
welcome TO every American industry
that can stand on Is own bottom and
i1ahc its way without leaning on the
poor rates Among these self-support-
ing industries. we are glad TO know. is
the production Of beet sugar At all
oyentg, it was such two years ago. W.
publish elsewhere a letter written IN
1899 and signed by MI OXnard anC
Mr. Cutting. the chiefs Of this indus.
try on the eastern side OF the Rocky
Mountains. showing that this was the
happy condition OF the trade at that
time. II parties masquerading as beet
sugar producers are besieging the Pres
dent and Congress at this moment
and pretending that they will be ruined
II Cuban sugar is admitted for six
months at half the present rates Of
duty, their false pretenccs ought to be
exposed
The letter Of Messrs Oxnard and
Cutting was probably written for the.
purpose Of inducing the farmers of the
Miesaaippi valley to go more largely
into the cultivation of bcets for the,
sugar factories This was laudable
motive or telling the truth and show
Ing the large profits which awaited,
both the bec,grower and the manufac-.
turer if the industry were pcrsevering-.
ly and intclligenty prosecuted. TO this
end it was pointed out that farmers
could clear $o5 per acre by cultivating
beets and might even make 500. But
In order to assure the cutyator that
he would not be exposed to reverses,
by possible changes in the tariff they
proceeded to show that the industry
stood in no need of protection.
"The beet sugar industry, these gen
tlemen say stands on as firm basis
os any business i'm the country" They
point out the fact--a very important
one-that their product comes out as a
finished article, refined and granulat-i
cd. 1t is not, like cane-sugar grown
in the West India Islands. a black and
offensive paste, which must be carried
in wagons to the sCaboard and thence,
by ships to the United States. where,
after another handling, it is put
through costly refinery. and then
shipped by rail to the consumer, who
may possibly be in Nebraska alongside
beet sugar factory which turns out
the refined and granulated article at
one fell swoop Indeed the advan-
tages of the producer Of beet sugar for
supplying the domestic consumption
are very great. We have no doubt that
Messrs. Oxnard ana Cutting are within
bounds when they say that sugar can
be produced here cheaper than it can
be in Europe The reasons for this
arc that
THE sugar industry is, after all
merely an agricultural one. We can
undersel Europe in all other crops
and sugar is no exception.
1T follows as naturally as the max
ing Of flour from wheat. II we can
produce wheat cheaper than Europe.
then naturally we can produce flour
cheaper, as we do.
Put the writer's OF the letter do no.
deycad upoG a-pyioM reasoning to prove
that they can mako sugar at a profit
without tariff protection They point to
the fact that under the Mckinley tariff
Of 1890, when sugar was free of dlty,
the price of the article was 4 cents per
pound. Yet a net profit OF 50 per ton
was made by the Gcct-sUSar factories
under these 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 bcet-sugar factories
had been started in bygone years back
in The sixties and seventies Of the nine
teenth century, ana 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 in
dustry Is already on a solid and enGur-
ing basis. There are factories in the
United states. these gentlemen tell Us
IN their letter, capable of using $4,000,
tons o. besta per annum at profit OF
SO rcr ton, and this would make q