| Show FOOLISH MR ME STAYNER lr stayner agrees with bourde ourde our definition fini tion of bonus and bounty in in another column and then says the legislators ought to declare H will give a bonus of one cent a pound on sugar but that is a bounty the we will live give means that the public trea treasury cury will give the legislators have a right to live atre away or even throw irow away their own money to their hearts content but they must not give awa away other peoples money that is entrusted to their charge then sir mr stayner makes this astounding declaration the use alone of the amount of money saved by the fatton fat ton from froin goins going out of af the territory about is worth all of the 1 paid as a bonus by the territory certainly provided your funn funny y supposition is true that the vast sum now invested in the sugar factory would have lain idle producing 0 nothing during 0 the iho last three years had it not been for the chance owners had to invest it in the sugar factory ks As a m matter atter of f fact this capital aou would id have produced in other things as much as it has produced in sugar now mr fr stayner if that half a million dollars had been in in your our hands durino during 0 the last three years do you mean to say ay tha t you would have hurried it in your cc cellar hail or well to rot and rust away or would it b have ave been invested by you or some oncel one else sein in some paying payin enterprise besides what do you mean by using 0 that extra bagent figure 0 Is that the value of the sugar sugar 0 produced by the factory this is evidently what you mean meal lecause you you go on to say this amount will have been literally earned by iho people 1 cople of the territory in this year alone but mr stayner Slay ncr you forget tr to tell what it costs to produce the sugar 0 you merely tell what you suppose it sells for arid and foolishly say this is the gain tn in other words you say eay it costs nothing to produce the sugar sugar arid and whatever value of sugar suar is produced it is just th that at much t gain tho the cost of production you say makes no difference if a pound of sumar sugar 6 costs seven cents to produce it that is uses up seven cents worth of labor and materials in its production and then sells for six cents the 0 gain is six cents is it can you not count mr stayner |
