The Washington herald., 1911-12-17
BY JAMES b. MORROW.


beet, which looks like a parsnip
ought to weigh two pounds, is enriching
thousands of men in Europe and should
be enrichfng hundEeds of thousands of
farmers in the United States. The beet
itself is not sweet. Neither is the soil
in which II grows. 1t is all a matter of
sunlight and atmosphere, of the chemis-
try of nature working with simple ele-
ments and familiar tools.
Refined to equal purity, there is no diff
ference between cane sugar, beet sugar.
and maple sugar. The one would taste
like the other. Dirt, so described by
science. gives maple sugar its favor. Ma
ture, in making sugar, whether in the
cane field, beet field, or forest, follows
the same formula. Thus the mysterious
storage of sugar in beets has been going
on since the third day of creation. when
the earth, being so commanded, brought
forth grass the herb yielding seed and
the tree-yielding fruit" Man was a long
time, nevertheless, in finding ii out.
Beet sugar. seemingly, is a new indus
try. 1t really is, in this country. Yet
John Stewart Barry. afterward governor
of Michigan. went to Europe more than
seventy years ago TO study the methods
of manufacture. The Mormons of Utah
imported sugar machinery from France
in 1854. hauling it in wagons drawn by
oxen from the Mississippi River to Salt
Lake City. The father of Senator Reed
Smoot directed the building of the fac
tory. But the MormOns could neither
operate the machinery nor grow the
beets. They are making large quantities
of sugar to-day, however.
The people of the United States spend
S6O0o,00O a week for sugar. More than
half of it is bought in foreign countries.
All of it could be grown and manufac-
tured at home Capitalists are ready TO
willing to plant beets. Sugar from beets
has been made in this country for thirty
two years.
The Original American Factory.
The first factory to be commercially
successful was built at Alameda, in Cal
ifornia. 1t is still in operation. Now.
after a generation of experimentation, of
appeals to and arguments with the ag
riCultural classes, there are but sixty
seven factories in the country and only
four in course of construction. Napoleon
Bonaparte, a hundred years ago, started
five times as many in France.
Thirty-fiVe corporations, said to he un-
related, own and operate the factories in
the United States. At the front of them
all is the American Beet Sugar Com
pany. capitalized at so. .OO0, ,OOo. H. Rieman
Duval courtIy and rugged. with gray
board of directors. He is a powerful man
in banks. railroads. and manufactures.
Also, he is a silent man and a strong
Chara cter. around whom could be written
a great romance of modern business, his
personality giving it dignity, vitality, and
action, and the financial atmosphere of
]. PierpOnt Morgan.
We never talk here he said to me,
unless our names and the name of our
company are omitted from anything that
may be published"
And he was very much in earnest, al
though kindly and democratic. But he
broke his rule when | spoke of Stone
wall Jackson. The name of that IA
nous Confederate chieftain brought a
smile into his face and warmed his eyes
into friendlineSs.
Il only knew him he replied to a ques-
ton. from a distance. We were at Har-
pers Ferry when Jackson came from the
Virginia Military Institute to take COM
nand of the troops assembling at that
point He was thirty-seven Years old and
wore heard, as was the fashion at that
time Why have they sent us that old
man. boys and military experts like my
self asked one another. We soon found
out.
Il was a courier the first day at Get
tysburg The Federals were driven
through the town to the hills beyond.
John B. Gordon. of Georgia, was in COM
mand of a brigade on that occasion. Lee,
Early. Ewell. Hill. Gordon, and other
generals held a council of war in the
evening. Unless we go up the hills to-
night Early said. adding a little pro-
family to his language, the Yankees will
be down upon us in the morning.
If jackson Had Been There.
Had Jackson been alive and present
Earlys advice would have been accepted.
we would have won the battle of Gettys-
burg, and would have marched on to
Philadelphia. In some way Early's warn
ing leaked out of Lees tent and became
known throughout the Confederate army.
Many years afterward l asked Gordon,
then a Senator in Congress. about the in
cident. He confirmed all that l heard at
Gettysburg, saying: You have repeated
EarlyS words exactly as l remember
them JaCkson'S wounds at Chancellors-
willie just two months previous to the
battle of Gettysburg from which he died.
prevented us, I think. from defeating
Meade and capturing the city of PhiladeI- |
phia. No one can tell what else might
have happened"
The names of many Duvals are in the |
directories of Washington and Baltimore.
Most of the Duvals so published are COL |
ored. ''All of them, so far as l can |
learn" Mr. Duval said in tone of |
back over the men of his family to Ma |
reen Duval, a Huguenot refugee, who |
settled in Maryland more than 80 years J
ago, "all of them" he went on to say, |
ARE as black my hat There is not a |
drop of white blood in any colored Duval
have ever seen"
When he returned from the war, Mr.. |
Duval became an officer of the Baltimore |
Hnd Ohio Railroad, having friends, as he
explained, who owned large blocks of
stock, and who prevented him from be-
coming a self-made man. He is now a
director of the Santa Fe, the Seaboard
Air Line, and other railways, and of !
banks and manufactures. He has three
homes one in New York, one on Long
Island, and one in Florida In politics he
is a Republican; in religion an Episco-
palian
What" / inquired. before talking to
him concerning sugar, do you think
about business conditions?"
Business, as every one understands"
he answered, ''is in much confusion. If
we could get rid Of the radicals in both
Parties, or could close their mouths, we
should be making money and starting
new enterprises. There is too much ora
tory. The President, in my opinion, de-
parted from dignity by engaging in de-
Date with Martin Llttleton over the Sher-
man law Why should the President of |
the united states stop to answer every |
man VINO jumps up with suggestion or
Gluclsm! Things are bad enough as
they are without making them worse
In no country in the world avoo-. l.