6^ BEET-ROOT SUGAR AND 



ish, and not to enhance, the price of sugars. He goes 

 on to say, u The North and the South may fight as 

 long as they like. The 4,000,000 slaves in the South- 

 ern States may be freed, the 400,000 negroes in Cuba 

 may also be emancipated, as well as those of Brazil. 

 The African slave trade may stop, drought and insects 

 may continue to ravage the sugar plantations of Re- 

 union and Mauritius, but sugar will not become scarce 

 in Europe for all that. We shall continue to be sup- 

 plied by our own admirable industry, whose advan- 

 tages and development we have set forth." 



In a later issue the probability is discussed of the 

 United States continuing to import annually 300,000 

 to 400,000 tons of sugar from Cuba and Brazil, " when 

 they have the ability to supply all their wants with 

 beet sugar from their own soil, not only with certainty 

 of profit to the manufacturer, under the existing tariff, 

 but also with advantage to the whole country, because 

 of the unreliability of the cane crop of Louisiana, 

 which never ripens, and which at any rate is certain to 

 be paralyzed for the next ten years. 



" But even if the duties on foreign sugars should 

 be abolished, the advantage would be on the side of 

 the beet-sugar manufacturer, who will probably have 

 less need of protection than the Louisiana planter. 



" The people of the Northern States will not long 

 defer the cultivation of a plant which contains so much 

 sugar that it will soon teach them to forget that which 

 was formerly produced upon the banks of the Missis- 

 sippi. As to the competition of Cuban and Brazilian su- 

 gars, they have no more cause to fear it than have the 

 beet-sugar makers of France and Germany, where the 



