Excerpt from Sugar: A New and Profitable Industry in the United States for Capital, Agriculture and Labor to Supply the Home Market Yearly With of Its Product

Still more remarkable is the fact that imports from Europe for '96 were five times as much as during the previous year. For the calendar year 1896 the United States paid Europe over for sugar. All but a fraction of this was from sugar beets grown in Europe and worked into sugar at European factories, the shipment of which to this country was stimulated by export bounties. If Europe can make such an increase in one year, what may she not accomplish within the next five years, if the American market continues at her mercy?

Quite as momentous is the enormous increase during the past year in imports of sugar from the Drient. This sugar is largely grown by the coolie labor of China, the East Indies, the Philippines and Oceanica, or the fellah labor of Africa. English operators of Egyptian sugar plantations worked by fellahs for a few cents a day were paid over $3, 000, 000 for their sugar shipped to the United States last year, or eight times as much as the year previous. The increase from the coolie-grown product of the East Indies, and from the debased labor of the Philippine Islands, is equally as great. Unless protected against the yellow labor of the East, it is a question whether its manipulation of the sugar cane will yet crowd to the rear the forceful European beet-sugar industry.

Imports of cane sugar from the countries to the south of us Show a decided falling oif. In spite of the Cuban war, it is a matter of common notoriety that the competition of European beet sugars has so usurped the sugar markets of the world that the industry is no longer profitable under even the most favored natural condi tions in British West Indies, and Her Majesty's government is now seeking some means of remedying the difficulty. Mr Gladstone and other British free-traders are outspoken against the German export bounty.

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