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Show Another vitiw of tin financial jr Question. pThat the alue of the sugar Interests is appreciated by tho farmers, hb well as by others, Is denr from a ery admirable letter on theysubject whit' appears in recent issilu of tlio Analiciiu (iazelte, over the s'guuture ol "T. J. Joneii." "Suppose a sugar company builds a sugar factory near my lanch; say 1 ban twenty or forty acies, tiud no have a thousand of niv neiglibois, Tbu sugar company is willing to lontiact with uih to grow, sy ten noes of sugar lic"ls, ami pay mo $1,541 per ton for l'l per cent beets, plow tho ground und plant it iuyd'. I employ n litt'tt help lo thin lie beets und top them fur tho harvest At the Inmost I hao leu tons lo t'lo acre, or l'K) tons, to sell fur rU per ton and am paid $160 in gold, thermite kind of money that would be required to pay for the sugar If Imported Have 1 not added to tho country V0 of wealth? "TIihI lfiO, you know, would Inn e gone out of tlio country to pay for the foreign-gionii sugar, had il not boen for the election of tlio factory neur me; to tho factory ban enabled me, a common California (aimer, toadd t IV) ol actual gold to the wealth of the country', I didn't makuonil ilia'. goV, but with tl.u help of tho m ther caitli, tho rain, the sunshine and a pair of pood horses, I produce 100 tons of Biigar beets, and with them 1 headed ofT450 that would have goiis abroad to buy sugar. ''My beets iuu gone, and so lias the sugar that made delicious many cup o culTie, but the gold Is safe, not exactly in my bands, fur I, a faimir-llke, havo spent it f but His In the counlr). How-did How-did I spend it 7 FIim, 1 paid ofT n fen little bills that had been bothering me, made pome improvements about the house, giving the cari enters and lumbermen lumber-men work, pniil foi the wagon, helping the Illinois implement builder. 1'atd Schauman for a puller, and had the carriage car-riage fixed up, thus helping tho home mechanic, l'aid a car in advance for the Gazette, for which the editor looked surprised and raid, 'ihank )ou, thank you.' Wife and 1 went to tho stole, not a carpet for a loom and some woolen si helping the wool gioweia nnd the I'lilhi-delpbla I'lilhi-delpbla mauuf.U'tuieis;got sheeting and othei cotton goods, helping the cotton Hinuufai'.urets and tho Cm oil mi cotton gtowris. In fuel, t-lnui I came lo think 'of It, that $150 cnablid uin to buy things 'giowiiaud miuufactilied nil ucr this louuliy, und I jutt Ibought, pnilixting tliigiuwthuf tliosllg.il beet is not foitci-iugii foitci-iugii local Interest at all, but u national interest. That t-iriO of tolid mo.-.ey 1 billed (othe nation has gouonll er it. .ami ipiickeiifd the pulse of ovcry iudits-jliy, iudits-jliy, nil cictpling the iiillroad, audi must do the same thing oier next uar. t "Tl.e bill lactuiy iiotuuly eujblid mo to in ii l,c and nut' the luiiuliy -),r0, but If it wai the elzc.il the Chiiiu fuctory, it would euiib1 101) faiuieit todoilu- name 'lung, plant 10,0')0nciis and i-avct&O,-00') of now wiallli to .he rouuliy, annually, an-nually, and that wealth, at the er llrst, will be paid into ll.u liaudB uf 100 fiiimers fordiilril)Utioii "We need 00 such factories now, tu inn four mouths each per jcar, saving thiough tho farmers alone W,000,000 annually. |