Cuban Cane Sugar 



It would seem, if prosperity sweet- 

 ens our sweet tooth, that adversity 

 should have the opposite effect. 

 But such is not the case. It is as if, 

 in times of adversity, we were saying 

 to ourselves, "We cannot afford 

 more sugar but we cannot get along 

 with less" and so, as always, in 

 such circumstances, we limit our 

 expenditures, but spend, really, a 

 little more than we can afford. 



The figures show this. The de- 

 cade, for example, between 1890 

 and 1900 was a period of protracted 

 and general financial depression in 

 the United States. At the beginning 

 of this decade the per capita sugar 

 consumption was 60.7 pounds, while 

 at the end of the decade the con- 

 sumption was 61.8 pounds. In other 

 words, instead of cutting our sugar 

 down to a point where it had for- 

 merly been, we kept it at just about 

 a constant level. 



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