Show A SWEET tho Damoc ratio press of tha territory to be somewhat exercised on the question of free sugar the average democrat from either eeness or cannot or will not understand why avery other article should not be admitted free ol 01 doty because suar is so admitted hia is of that peculiar braoo which would maae him angry with a cat for not thriving on an exclusive diefe of hoy because a cow gets fat on it if there is any credit due for removing the duty on sugar the republican party is enticed to it that party favored it the democrats opposed it but from the way the dem cratic newspapers boast abent ahr saving to the people by the removal of tho duty on sugar they seem to imagine that democrats are responsible for it the fact is they have simply discovered at this late day that tho were right at they generally are and democrats were wrong on tb is question as thea are on most questions and as usual I 1 are beginning to hodge the republican party believes ehlt like of which we cann t produce at home should ba admit iree because in sach cases the foreign importer fixes th price there h aug no home production to compote and if is a duty charged the amount of that duty is added to the and the consumer ia this conn try pays ik articles the like of which we can protace at home in sufficient or nearly sufficient quantities to supply conr own people republicans believe should pay a doty because in sah cases the home production fixes the price and the importer must sell at that price or stay out of our markets in aishor event home campb haying reference to our conditions higher brings prices down to the lowest living limit that conr own produce uan afford this is the natural and necessary result of competition which no number of corn lm 3 or trusts can for any great length of time prevent if the foreign article of the latter description is adur eted free our producers must come to the foreign price which is below the living limit of the home producer who must taen either go out of busi ness or cut the wages of the labor he employs to the foreign standard ditl er of which would be disaster oas and result in higher prices ultimately or as soon as the foreign producer had control of our marketa with reference to sugar we produce about 8 per cent and import about 92 per cent af what we consume the quantity which wo can produce for many years to como is so small compared with the quantity we import that for all ent practical purposes it occupies the same position that tea or coffee and such article the like of which we cannot produce at aa occupies the forsigh iu porter furnishes cuch an enormous proportion that ho fixes and controls tho ance and adds the duty when there is any to the cost we therefore that our people should net be compelled to pay a duty on 92 per cent tor the purpose of protecting 8 percent but we also think that the sugar industry should not be permitted to be entirely crushed onic of existence which it would be by learine wholly at the marcy of the foreign competitor and we therefore pay a bounty of about 2 cents a pound on all sugar produced in this country thus affording the a protective duty would do enabling the industry in its infant and experimental baago to livo and grow while our people aro paying a bounty on 8 per cent instead of a duty on 92 percent the result is we are paying about a apar less for our which ia partially offset by bounties amounting to about a clear saving of of to our people and at the aado time an important industry is fostered and encouraged cou raged whenever our homo pro ducra can furnish more than half the sugar we cone aae thoa it will become cheaper lo 10 pay a duty than a bounty but under the conditions it ia clearly cheaper to pay the bounty |