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Show Don't Kriow.lt All. ' With their usual blunter, . the H Herald attacks Manager Cutler's H views on llie sugar question as H given 'in our last issue, assuming H i that they know all about it but H they don't. They don't even H know that there has been an agi- H latton of this quesJon though such H' f well-known papers as the Ameri- H can Agriculturist, Louisana Plan- H ter and Bradstreet's have been H devoting much space to it. To I. show that it is being agitated H abroad we take the following Hi fromr the N. Y. Tribune. Speak- Hl ing of Mr. Chamberlain their H London correpondent says : H "lie may also bo harassed bv Colo- H nial agitation over the augar question; B the sugar induatry of the Eaatand West m Indies liaa steadily declined under the B ' preasuro of the bounty-stimulated beet Br; industry of .Europe. Even the -vacariiii M created by the deatruction of Cuban F augar interest has not helped the rival m producera. Tho augar planters are cry- M ing aloud for the Imperial government B to. protect their industry against this M destructive competition; the presaure M already is great, and Mr. Chaimberlain B ' iR believed to favor the appointmontof 1 a commission for investigating the aub- M ject. Negotiations for securing the fl abolition of the Continental system of H bounties are as hopeiesj now bh when 1 Baron Honryde tortus, now Lord Pir- M bright, attempted toconvincethe Euro- m , peon Powers that they were cutting one 1 ' nnother'a throats. The only effectual M method of saving the sugar industry in H Guiana, Trinidad, Barhadoes and other H ialanda would be to admit their roduct fl duty free into British ports and to levy M duties on Euroiean beet sugar; but the M Salisbury Government ia not likely to m ' propose ho radical a change. England B must have cheap sugar for marmalade M antl jam, though her augar islands may H . j periBh.", H &',- J Also elsewhere in this issue will H be found.. an article from a Berlin H correspondent. These are am- H pie proof that the question is be- H ing agitated. H In regard to the ad valorum H duty, the Herald knows that what Hi , ' Mr. Cutler bas is true, that it is H ' f a farce. The reports Of the cus- H, . torn officials have repeatedly sta- H ted that thousands of dollars are Hj annually lost to our government H'! ' by such duties |