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Show BEET SUGAR 'NEWS. - Save the Sugar lndestry. I am hero In Norfolk, Nib., looklim ont on tht la-jest beet sn?ar factory in America. Lait year It made 15,000,000 pounds of whlto sugar. Tlioueands of farmers alonj Ui PlatU Valley nine contracts for an lnirrnl tnif bcelsiTcxtijear. They are now mi' lug for fear of tbro tenod dimeter f nrt simply dszed t he knoik-om i the present Congresu liatthit i young but griming supu m - Many Kbrasks. farmers, I ea, made their lonlrncts tor raleilip I nest spring drilie Grand IiUnrt Norfolk fictorles. These farinam just begliiulng to learn lion ii Decti with protlt, and tlu-iuiui'"-wheat fields and corn uelds wre iwi into sugar. 'Three message-," said Mr. (Meson, n large fsriner of Alma, near Sir-Cook, "1 made a contract to raise forty nercn of beets this year. The Wilson bill had favored the bounty and wo were happy To-day I gt it toll-cram from Str. Ox-naid's Ox-naid's agont sttylng 'the l!-eent bounty Isoffond ve must stop,.' " "What will you do?" I asked. . "I. suppose I will put In wheat and corn again. It is too bd that this country has jwt to scud (60,000,000 woitl. of w heat und cot n of tor sugar everr year wlinn we could make it at homo and reduce onr wheat and cotton crops." "What do you remember about rouk lng beot sugar in Our-cany?" I oskid 'I rctnembsr Germany used to pay out 40,OU),000 a year lor sugar. This trnuli--"--"wJd Bismarck, nnd ho told King William that thltsngarouj-httobemadeatliouie Then nisnmrrk set the Government chetni&t eiperiraeuting with teas. He had tho Itslchitsg pass a law paying ' sugar raisers a 3-cent bounty " "Hom- did it Minli?" I asked. "Why, Germany is now not only making mak-ing her om n $10,OW,000 worth of sugar, tout the Is lending f 10,000,1)00 worth ot -c augir to America", nnd tho bounty is now reduced to 1 cent." In a conversation with Mr. Henry .1 Oxnanl ahout beet sugar In Nebraska hi zaldi "Wo can ranko 3O,O00,C0O worth of beet eugar annually in Nebraska, and will do it if tho Government will stand & by usunlil wogct Blortcd aKfcf. "Germany and France stood by their HU beet sugar industries for twenty years. SSBXt.aJww.AiVva;yjt Qt,c5-T wi - Jf'p' our sugr factories. Colossal tusj-hlfi- W"' i ' cry has to come from Belgium, arid wo & hae to hire talent at big wa?ee. Our I firm has spent millions of dollars nnd , run great risks, and we nro only just f-attiiiR started. Wo Inul to Import Gorman farmers and teach American liOW tn cultivato beets. Wo have not " uiatld inouey. Wo hale lost licavil, I but with tho bounty on w.i expected to ..nj .M,r im.L'ta nml nunntnnllv realize 'J v twjjethlnu on onr eypeihnont Land "" is ten times as cheap in Nebraska as in r Germany, and iter beets nro 2 per cent eotcr than German beets, but our Ameilcaii labor e four times as lilgh as Jexmr.n labor." , "Tlietl ou think Jt good policy to " ',, fus'.er this new sugar Industry here?" "" "Olcourtru. When wu maku our own ! sugar uo save this country f3O,0O0,O0O a jear. It Is ciieu.i inough for iliia Go---o-.. eminent to pay out f 0,000,000 a yiar for nfen-ycar to gain an lnJuetry wIi.lIi ,. '. wlllglvo to our laboring peoplo t(J0O,(W,- t O00intenears. And then when we v Alice getthe iudustry wowllltuke off the ' bounty and we will have our own cheap sugar foreier " . "Will the taking off the bounty kill tho industry?" "IXo, but it will stop Us increase. We i will try to keep our factories running to f Hueojr machinery till the ndmlnlstra- 1 t ion is changed , a nd then hope 10 extend r"".. ' the bidustry again. The Utlrena ol Oinalia had gotten already to build u big factory In tho suburbs of thelrclty. Pub- -r lie meetings at tho Koard ofTiadehave ' eeii held aud money subscribed. I am 2 AfwW this will not fall through. Capl- tnlif Timid." 'j i. "Whae will bo the effect of rnUhu P C? annually 60,000,000 worth ol sugar in ' l""' ' S ' Ihw country" I asked. "Tli'o raising of GO,OQO,000 worth cj I ' ugur in this country w ill take out 100, l. 000,000 bushels of cereals and 2,000. JOO H bales of cotton. Sugar is already colng up the Brazos nnd alcuj the Gulo ll Wexko in Texas. It Is going up Baou V .Lafourche and crowding up lUd Blvsr jl to Alexandria ond Natchidoclits. Jt is i " taking i-ottou out of Texas, Loulslaua 'I 4 snd Florida, and any Southern man ij. ,, will tell OU that 0,000,000 bides of ' cotton meant 10 cents' a pound, whllo f 8,000,000 bales means 7 centu per pound j ' Jtis tho very silvatlon of Iho cotton &M planjcr." C I can verify the good news from the , South, for hundreds of plauters from . Alexandria -to St. Charles, La., told me I J last winter that with tiieold bounty on, J I all the cotton plantations from tho Gulf I 1 to Bhroveport would go into sugar, and, I onco In and refineries built, It would i I utay thoro, and tiat It w as tho only w ay ( p !a tcUjic? tholr cotton acreage ijl vny, Is the salvation of tin jH x nnd tho cotton jH comofrom wlieitand kBBlBBlBlBM i r cotton when we reduce tho quantity, and not till then, and tugar ntont mil bo This 100,000,000 which wo will annually save on foreign made sugar will til go to our laboring men. It will eventually raako cheaper sngar and lift both planter And farmer to prosperity. Du Pckkiks. |