Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-11-19
MADE IN AMERICA SUGAR.

The Grand Junction Colorado Daily News, published in the
heart of one Of the beet growing sections of the west, is strenuously
urging the adoption OF a slogan Tor AmerlcanInade sugar 0 II
American people.
billion dollars annually for imported foodstufs khile their exports
amounts to but a trihe over three hundred millions a year, leaving
a aya ainDp the n Of If this ii trade balance, substantially one hundred
millions are expended for sugar.
In this connection it is also pointed out that it would require but
d million and seven hundred thousand acres of sugar beets, in addi-
ton to the acreage already devoted to bet production. to r pnsea AL
against us to that extent.
rgat's all very well, 50 far as it goes But We have observed
fortunes. The fortunes are amassed by the men who control the
manufacture and who control the sugar market.
The average production of sugar beets in Colorado is about
twelve tons to the acre. We doubt whether the average is so high,
The price has averaged Approximately five dollars a ton. After
imported sugar, the sugar manufacturers cut the price to $4.75 a
ton, giving a a reason that they could not afford to continue the
old prices under the revised tariff.
But when the E%opesn wal broke out and sugar jumped from
crease the price for beets to {; 25, or a quarter a ton more than was
is selling for twenty-five to fifty per cent more at wholesale than it
was selling prior to the beginning of the war, the price paid for beets
has been increased but about five per cent.
There is no special encouragement to the growers of sugar
beets in this negotiable division of the profits, especially when it is
a well known fact that at five dollars a ton there is but a small mar
gin of profit in raising beets, taking a series of years and a necessary
acre to raise sugar beets and get the crop ready for the factory.
At five dollars a ton, delivered at the shipping points, the cost
of hauling the beets from the field to the dumps varies from twenty
to forty per cent of the gross sum received for the crop,
When the sugar trust shall consent to, and will enforce, a fair
division of the profits, commencing with the cost Of the seed and
ending with the wholesale prices received by the manufacturer the
propaganda to provide American-made sugar for all the American
people may make some Roadway.
A New York dispatch states that unless unforeseen complications
arise the New York Stock Exchange will resume operations with
the beginning of the new year: The country has been getting along
very well without the exchange since the outbreak of the European
war. So far as we can perceive, the only gamers by the resumption
of business would be the spectators and stock jobbers and stock
gamblers. Tom Lawson may be a frenzed finance sort of chap
and we are inclined to think he is, but he certainly stated a truth
worth considering when he declared that the exchange should be
put out of business and compelled to remain out
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The sale of pure-bred livestock in this city last Tuesday was but
the beginning, it should be borne in mind. The prices were not as
high as it was hoped they might be, for the bidding was not at all
brisk. There were some really fine animals offered, but the best OF
them brought rather inferior prices. But thara ,n-sssaAHags be a he
character, When the breeders of stock come to understand that
they can pickup some really high-class breeding material at this
annual sale they will be here {im larger numbers and will be more
energetic in their bidding.
Of all the disappointnents in the Wilson administration, tM
presidents endorsement of Sullivan in Illinois was the greatest
Sullivan belongs to a school of politics foreign to- Mr.. Wilson
he secured the support of the great bulk of the democrats of his
state enough of them refused to support him to cause his defeat. M
Some people have been wondering. how John D. could afford t
blossom out as a Santa Claus to the starving Belgians. but Andrew
Waterman Of the Rec Heights Review seems to have given the snaf
away. Andrew says the price of gasoline has gone up two cents 8
gallon. I W
President Wilson seems to have been more popular in the west
than IN the east. In Ne York; Glynn, the democratic candidate f1
governor, had the strong support of the administration, but Glynn
was showed under by nearly two hundred thousand plurality.
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