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so valuable to him, lie will seek new markets, and he will be ready to 

 supply to the factories which may then be established the raw product 

 necessary to successful and economic work. The extent of cultivation 

 in this way induced would seem to leave no question as to the possibili- 

 ties of securing all the supplies that an average manufactory would re- 

 quire, and the difficulty of making contracts for such supplies would be 

 materially reduced if not entirely abolished. 



The loss the government might sustain by the temporary reduction in 

 the revenue from spirits might be subsequently compensated for by es- 

 tablishing a tax upon the sugar produced, so that if we consider that 

 if from the introduction of this " industry sufficient sugar may be pro- 

 duced to supply our home demand, it would not only become the cause 

 of retaining annually in this country about one hundred millions of dollars, 

 and a source of employment to over 100,000 laborers, but might, at the 

 same time, become as fruitful a source of revenue to the government in 

 the future as spirits and tobacco have been in the past and are to-day. 



