YOU AND I n 



who devote their workaday lives to its cultivation 

 and manufacture. Why have you never realized that 

 desire ? Up to the present moment, I am persuaded 

 that you have been in the same helpless position as 

 I was until quite recently. I could not find anyone 

 who, through the popular medium of a book, had dealt 

 with the sugar industry from a popular standpoint. 

 Consequently, I determined to set forth on a travel- 

 round of various centres of the industry in its many 

 phases, from the cultivation of the raw material to the 

 manufacture of the marketable commodity, with a 

 view to seeing for myself the things I wanted to see, 

 and finding out for myself what I felt I should like to 

 know. Having done this, I now offer myself as your 

 guide on a similar quest. 



Briefly to sum up our relationship the one to the 

 other during the whole course of this tour : the majority 

 of you, I take it, have no direct commercial interest 

 in sugar ; you are simply and solely pleasure-seekers of 

 general knowledge. And those of you who happen to 

 have a commercial interest in this commodity would 

 like to know something more about sugar than its 

 exchange value and all the problems that affect market 

 prices. It is my aim and object to help all of you to 

 gain an intimate knowledge of sugar-growing and 

 sugar-making by taking you to look at the scenes and 

 scenery amidst which they flourish, and by so leading 

 you into the life of which they are the centre that you 

 may not only get into touch with its stern realities, 

 but feel the fascination of its subtle romance. 



By the Sugar World we will understand those dis- 

 tricts in which the production of sugar is of intense, 

 ofttimes paramount importance from the commercial 



