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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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gsthat led Mr. Wilson to condemn his own billas finally distorted, while causing PresidentCleveland to refuse to affix his signature. Sothat it is not the Republican party alone thathas played into the hands of this evil anduseless monopoly. The Trust Sugar is not to any large extentAlone a product of our own soil. W^e Benefits \ r are the greatest consumers ofsugar in the world, and we have to importmost of our supply from other countries.Cuba and the other West India islands arebetter adapted to sugar culture than anyother parts of the world. Our limitedLouisiana sugar-growing area is not welladapted to that purpose, and would abandonsugar but for the high duty that gives theplanters of a limited coast strip som.e profiton their crop. The best agricultural expertsof the country would strongly advise Louisi-ana to give up sugar for various other cropsthat can be advantageously grown on her soil.But even if Louisiana sugar is to be protectedfor some years to come, this can be done all
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THE MAGNIFICENT CUSTOM HOUSE AT NEW YORK. THE PROGRESS OF THE U^)RLD. 647 the better by a simple specific duty on imported suj^ar that sliall wholly or practicall\ignore the distinction between refined andunrefined grades. The same thing may besaid of the persistent efforts to develop beetsugar in our Western States into a great andstandard American product. The heavy ditferential between raw sugar and refined sugarbenefits the Sugar Trust alone. It is aswindle upon the American public, and it hasgiven the rrust a club by means of which ithas intimidated, first, the honest Louisianacane-growers, and, second, the ambitious andentirely reputable leaders in the movementfor the W^estern growth of beets and themaking of sugar from that crop. g^g^ As sugar is made nowadays in ato the country like Cuba, the cane is Cane-fields I , i , i . . . , cruslied and tlie mitial processesare carried on in great factories in the cane-fields known as centralis. These are now sowell organized and equippe

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