Show I 1 WHO GETS THE SUGAR it iva va designed De deneil for the th deot grower and end a oo 00 to ill him does the farmer or the sugar manufacturer fac receive tha the bounty on beet 11 sugar the manufacturer receives it fr from orn the government aal turns it over oter to ills th fanner in payment for his beeta beets without a bounty the manufacture manu factura of beet an suar gar could not at its present stage of ir development in this country be on successfully c cew carried on OIL the sugar maker was wa tn in x condition somewhat as follows ha ile found that say pounds of b bat 4 I 1 I 1 I 1 won M produce 5 0 j pounds ol 01 sugar which would sell for say 4 cents a pound or 20 cents ile tie knew it would cost bia him so much in interest on capital invested wear and awl tear 0 of f machinery deterioration ut of plant wages and other expenses irk dinv inv dent to working the beets into sugar that he could not possibly pa y over cents a hundred to the farmer for av Q beets without losing money farmers could not grow beets at so low a price and tho consequence was so long iong us its these conditions remained une unchanged hange I 1 that no beet suga r would be produced in in this country at tins this point ther mckinley law steps 8 in and guarantees two cents a pound pou ill in ill addition a doli tion to the regular gillar re market price for all the sugar the manufacturer can pro dace cince this amounts to an additional ten tell cents on the sugar produced by pounds of beets and enables him to pay the farmer twenty cents a hundred which makes boet beet growing a profitable business it is plain that the far farmer meris is the one who really receives the bounty although it is first paid to the manufacturer a fac i f if the farmer at any time believes or discovers that the manufacturer is not paying all he should for beets but is putting the bounty into his ills own pocket all ha be has to do is to make his freeta into sugar himself and get the bounty direct if he be has not sufficient capital the farmers of a neighborhood or a township can unite it and build a joint factor tory for the beets of all but there is little danger of the manufacturers u facture rs making abnormal profits for there are millions of capital waiting for a chance of investment and its owners are continually on the watch for some paying industry in which to embark they would quickly find it out it the beet sugar makers were getting rich and would go into the business themselves this would increase the demand for beets sugar maker drown brown would bid against a sugar maker 31 alter black for the farmers beets and their price would to the highest point which the market price of sug sugar gar plus the bounty would warrant As tha the industry expands competition will be sure to adjust all these matters equitably in any case the payment of the bounty to the farmer directly before the sugar was extracted from beeta beets would bo be manifestly impracticable |