Arizona republican., 1909-06-22
COMPARISON
OF PRODUCTS
Proof ofEqua|ity Of Beet and
Cane Sugars
AN ANCIENT SUPERSTITION
Origin of the Story of the
Inferiority of Beet Sugar
and Dissipation of the
Theory Sugar Is Never
made"
AN ANCIENT SUPERSTITION

| little local dynamite 10 nelp III
1 blowing up an old established theory,
to the effect that beet sugar is in
/ ferior to that manufactured from
cane. The theory was promulgated
| by the cane sugar interests many
years ago and at that time had some
! foundation, due to the fact that beet
sugar processes had not then been
perfected and beet sugar of inferior
| grade was placed on the market in
greater quantity than can sugar of
| inferior grade. The truth is that
either is bad if not good, but either,
4 if made properly is practically on a
! common parity of perfection.
Heretofore the subject has had
| little bearing on local interests and
| few have taken the trouble to inquire
| into it, preferring the old theory
rather than make an investigation.
| II has now, however, become a local
issue, since this valley and territory
has a beet sugar factory. The great
est success of that factory and the
| probabilities of the construction of
one, two or three more of them in
! this valley. will depend a great deal
upon the support given it in the local
market. Surely the factory should
supply the Arizona market in its en-
| tirety, all other things being equal
And it appears that all other things
are equal except the one fact of
prejudice in some quarters against
beet sugar generally founded on the
old bugbear that it is of inferior
quality. Any local resident may see
for himself by comparison at the
local grocery stores and others should
take for answer the decision of the
chemists who assert that they can
not tell one from the other unless it
I is labeled
The beet sugar industry is a COM
paratively young one in America. The
industry had not passed the expert
mental stage until 1896 when seven
factories had been constructed, three
of which failed later. In 1908 there
were Teighty-one factories, Of which
nineteen were to some extent failures.
Those figures are given to show the
growth of the industry and as a hint
of the fact that il is only within very
recent years that the perfection of
process has been obtained, and at
tention should be called to the fact
also that of the failures, other
things than faulty process entered
largely into them. There is business
management, lack Of capital and a
score of things just as important as
good process to successful manufac-
ture The rapid growth of the in
dustry, however, is ample proof of
its virtue and of it's future. Con-
corning the perfection of the process
an al Of
properly made, the following from
THE American Sugar Industry and
Beet Sugar Gazette" a monthly Chi
cago publication. is most timely:
That beet sugar is not inferior to
cane is a fact well known among it's
unprejudiced users. but, although it
seems somewhat puerile to take up
the defense" of a commercial factor
so well entrenched, an occasional
voice must be lifted in protest against
the rabid misstatements circulated
concerning the quality of the sugar
beet product. Every pound of beet
sugar manufactured in this country
since the industry here first began
has found a ready sale among do
nestle consumers Moreover, i'm
mense quantities of beet were i'm
ported into this country before the
home product was placed upon our
markets, and this foreign made beet
sugar was consumed as readily as the
cane from the south, its users not
knowing the difference. No one as
serts that beet sugar is in any way
superior to cane, for our object on the
contrary is TO establish the fact in
the minds of our readers that the two
are identically the same, but CONNER
cial and industrial interests are at
stake in view of the new era upon
which the beet sugar industry is just
entering, and no true friend of the
industry viii stand silent and allow
misrepresentation or anything else to
stand in the way of the most active
demand for the new product, which
promises to supply the entire domes-
tic demand where that demand is not
met by the cane product of the south.
Existing conditions prove that the
cane area of this country is restricted
lin fact it is slightly on the decline
while the opponents of the sugar beet
point enthusiastically to the millions
of acres of fertile, adaptable land
that might be devoted to the saccha-
rine root crop. Let nothing stand in
the way of the fullest expansion of
the beet sugar industry, neither of the
cane sugar industry, here on Ameri-
can SOIL is the slogan of all true
friends of protection. and let no false
report tend TO curtail the keen de- |
mand for the product of either
branch of the industry.
A very significant fact that we wish
to bring to the attention of our
readers is that in France and Ger
many, and in other countries, little
else but beet sugar is found. and it
is used probably exclusively for the
purposes, of canning, preserving and
candy making.
Beet sugar was for years used in
this country unknown to the consum-
ers. No fault was found with it.
1t should be known fo eval.v i,ca,.