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Show BEET SUGAR NEWS. H Senator- Poffor on Sugar and H ij tlio Bounty. f "It wag costing tbo people to miicli (or U linear Hist Congress", In 18fH),di!toriiiliied H tbo duly nn foreign sugar In.' low n H ccrlitln grade nnd rnter iim ti tiflccn H yenr oxit:rIinc)t to il krmiiio whether M in tlint tlmu wo coiil. 1 not build up n H iiatlon.il eugnr industry In the United B Htntca ninl rrlii'tbcr our own people H could not In tbnl lingtli of time tuntcc H all or most ol tbomitf.ir e consume. It m wim enacted thnt during those Ilttren H yenrs n bounty of i! renin ehould ho paid B directly out of tint Treasury to inanu- M fnclurcra for sugar fur every pound they should make above ix certain stnndnrd, HP and H4 cents a pound on MUjr.ir below H that standard. Tli) mnnuuicluro of H domestic suirnr has largely increased H since that Hw bna paexed, mid If it Ih H nllotHllo run Hu coumc and uxjiire by H limitation, American inanufactilretB LliH niiffhttoho able to Hiipply wont of the H sugai we need at prlcr an low in It can H ba furnUhcd to us by foreign inanufnct- H urernj but whether they rcrch that point H or not tho peoplo will have, after thnt, H all their iingar atthelowent pricestlmt it H can bo produced for an) where In tho H world and laid down In our warc- H Whether tho bounty Bhoulo remain in M force until tho expiration of tho time M named in tho law la purely a mutter ol M busluemto bo determined by ourselves M in our own intcrcBlH. If the policy t1 M protection to manufarlores H lo be H maintained, tho nulcominittco oro ol H opinion that it wo"''1 bo f !'' lo H retain tho Imunty than to abolish it M and rentorollio duty, for tho rale Is the H name alwut 2 cents a pound. All for- H eign BUgarg of every grade ought to be H admitted frco for all timoi and if our H home manufacturers can not, eleven H nuiiejears of protection, successfnlly H copowith (Jcrinnn and French sugar- H makerc, thoycan goout of business. H The amount of money rahl as duty on H foreign sugar Imported into tho United H States during tho one hundred years H prior to 1800, when the duty was icmov H cl as to all course fliignrs, Is very large. M It amounted to about 7r0,000,000 from H 1876 to IB-JO." |