The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-03-26

| is worse than it was after the civil
war. Then there were prospects ahead
| upon which credits were based and
| Were secured. There are no such pros
poets now and our sugar planters are
| simply trying to meet the exigencies
of the situation as best they can.
1.-The suggestion of change from
sugar to cattle are more easily made
than followed. A change OF that kind
becomes a reorganization, liquidation
of the old business and the inaugu-
ration OF a new business. All this
may come, but 1t would be a COM
plete change in our civilization The
sugar business requires a laborer for
every ten acres of land in cane Gull
ture. In the cattle business one la
borer can care for 200 acres in cat
tie pasture, or even more In other
words the cattle industry occupying
the same lands as the sugar industry
won't require per cent of the labor
now or recently concentrated in the
sugar industry"
The Cuban market of 1894, with
but year of prospective free sugar in
the United States has already grown
and produced this year $4,000 long
tons Of sugar, against $4,000 long
tons last year, and 5Ss,000 long tons
the year previous.
This is a showing that we predicted
in our former article, but only the be-
ginning. BY the time we have three
more years of the efforts to reduce
the cost of living" we will all be
through with high living" The
Louisiana Planter further says:
I'VE do not despair in Louisiana
We shall not always have Woodrow
Wilson for f0raSidoy1f nd
say that perhaps behind the clouds
the sun is still shining The so-calIed
progressive party certainly never
contemplated any such radical legis-
lation as is today impoverishing the
people of half of Louisiana and has
destroyed hundred million dollars of
invested capital"
This too is a delusive hope for su-
gar, for the money and machinery
now in use in Louisiana sugar max
ing will be largely transferred to
Cuba.
Louisiana and Florida sugar and
syrup producers are reaping their re-
tribution for voting against their own
interests for years, and hoping that
the republican party could and would
protect their greatest industries while
they fought protection as a principle.
VIII Mr.. Chandlee come back to
Chipley and practice what he
breaches? Grand Ridge section, that
produces more and better syrup than
any part of Florida, will only have
one-third of a crop and expects not
more than one-half the price Of two
years ago. Mr.. Chandlee grossly ex-
the capacity of Florida for
supplying the sugar consumption of
the United States, which now amounts
to seventy-two CID pounds for each
man, woman and child of the United
States, and the fact is that all the
sugar cane grown in the state of
the past year, would not have
supplied one of the large centrifugal
centrals of Louisiana for the usual
sixty days grinding.
Another great fact is that, in the
last quarter of a century, there have
been more than a hundred thousand
fools, who brought, or sent more than
a thousand million dollars into the
sunny southland, to invest in protect
ed industries while the native element
were fighting and voting against their
interests. and we will all have to take
our retISoution.
Yours,
JOHN THOS. PORTER
Grand Ridge, Fla, March %.