Cuban Cane Sugar 



must, if only by reducing it, increase 



the consumption of sugar. 

 * * * * 



We see, thus, that the advance 

 of sugar goes hand in hand with the 

 advance of intelligence and pros- 

 perity; that adversity only slightly 

 checks the advance; that the high 

 cost of living and the prohibition 

 movement, both of which promise 

 to be with us for many years to 

 come, tend to increase consumption. 



As a result of the operation of 

 these factors, our national sweet 

 tooth has been growing sweeter and 

 sweeter not only ours, but that of 

 our neighbors. 



And the sum of this increase in the 

 use of sugar is indelibly written in 

 the statistics of world sugar pro- 

 duction, as follows: 



In 1870 the total production of 

 cane and beet sugar in the whole 

 world was 2,750,000 tons. 

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