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Show f 'Behind the Times. i Tho people of the east have an idea that tho inhabitants dwelling in the "wild and wooly" west arc away behind tho Limea but in many eases it is just tho opposite and wo see tho eastern j, people stranded on tho sands of time while the world has gone on. This is i ! especially tho case with Eome eastern ,' papors on tho sugar question, Thq jJ following article taken from Collier f ' Weekly shows some of tho ideas still extant in the Empire state: ( ' "In anticipation of higher tariff rates ' " on sugar there is said to bo a suddeiji awaking of interest in the sugar beef; and its culture. That sugar cunbe- P made from beets has long inco beeii f ' s i known; it is known also that beet-sugar. !, ' is made so well arid cheaply in Germany that some of it is shipped over heWund, sold at n profit, but whether American' can and will find profit .'in sugar beets ,fj ' remains to bo seen. 'A few of them , ; liavo dono it, thankb to State bounties; J . but tho work requires either cheap labor . ' or highly intelligent labor, each of which is ecu co. If it becomes an established industry here, the initiative will piobubly be taken by rich men or lirmB whoaro interested in the refineries. They will select their land carefully, 1 vultivato systematically, avoid all I carlossnoaa and waste, succeed fairly rf f well, and then be soundly abused for mnkini' monov through tho upo" of ' capital and brains combined. Tho only '- ' other method that promises success is ' lor owners of land in proper localities f'! to do some combining for their own f account, and ofi'or colony inducements , I . for Fiunohinen and Germans w ho al- I' ? ready undeiatand the business." h The idea oi importing 1'renchmen or js . Gormana to grow sugar beets in this country. If tho editor of that papor will come out hero wc will show nim formers who have been in tho business but a few years but thoy could give theso Europeans valuable points on raising i b MM . i sugar boots in fatt wn doubt if imported farmers could make any success suc-cess at al' of it in the irrigated districts. Some of those effete eastern people should wako up and learn n thing or. two. K |