The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-23
Washington
Day by Day

Washington, April 22.-(SpeciaD-As tbs
excessive consumption OF sugar In this
country has made us a nation of pie
eating dyspeptlcs, so excessive talk and
legislation concerning sugar have given
the body polite violent indigestion, with
the result that many individual Americans
are being ridden by Nightmares.
Apart from the government and import
trade experts, there is probably not one
person in a million in this country who
knows the difference between 16 Dutch
standard sugar and Dutch standard
sugar, or who even knows what is meant
by the term Dutch standard.
Probably nobody except the expart Is
aware that standard is a bottle, not
unlike any old square-shaped stomach
bitters bottle and that the number refers
to the color of the sugar in the stand
ard" Specifically 1t will come like ''yel-
low sensation to the ordinary citizen to
| be informed that the" Dutch standard
consists of fourteen bottles, numbered
consecutively from to 20 inclusive. and
all in 2 case not unlike the familiar
liquor case seen on the sideboard in the
| diningroom of a well-to-do family, ex-
cept that instead of the three bottles
in the private liquor case there are four.
teen bottles in the Dutch standard sugar
! case.
In other words. In the Dutch standard
the are fourteen standards"
bottles, and each bottle filled with a diff.
ferent grade of sugar. The standard case
Is agreed upon and put up fresh by Am
sterdam sugar brokers once every year
| This work of the Dutch traders is ac.
cepted as standard by the commercial
world, and bottle No. 16 of 1t is very
conspicuous in the statutory law of the
United States.
For the purpose of taxing the people
FOR the benefit of the sugar trust, our
government has adopted bottle No. 16
and the devil as well as the sugar trust
is to pay by the nation that makes itself
dyspeptio because 1t is a sugar topper.
| You will find the so-called temperance
advocate tearing his hair in frenzy OF
wrath over alcoholic stimulants, and YET
within the hour he has put seven humps
| OF sugar in his pint of coffee and poured
the hurtful stuff into his stomach. lie
can't see that such indulgence is intern
perance in one of its worst forms, just
as he is blind to the fact that the eating
of two pounds of beefsteak and a pound
of pie at a meal is most grossly intemper-
ate. The most bowling TRADE against
'intemperance" as leading to eternal fire
and birthstone and groans / ever heard
was spoken by man whom 1 had seen
empty a big tin plate of chicken pie
But what has chicken pie got to do
with sugar?
de rose Is red.
| De violet's blue;
Sugar am sweet
| An so am you"
Upon the average every American,
whether child woman or man, contributes
nearly seventy pounds of sugar land
SANDY to build vast monument to bad
! health and aching teeth every year.
The doctors and dentists and under
takers Of this country will well adopt
bottle No. 16 of the dear Dutch as a
national emblem of their respective oc-
| equations.
The basis of the tariff duties now laid
by the United States on imported sugar
is a raw sugar under No. 16 Dutch stand
ard, and testing not above rs degrees by
the polariscope, to be specific. DR.. Harvey
Wiley, the noted sugar expert of the De
partment of Agriculture. whose testi-
mony has been so repeatedly referred to
in recent discussions of this article OF
trade, has written at length to inform