212 THE SUGAR INDUSTRY. 



DOMESTIC SUGAR PRODUCERS ORGANIZED. 



The American Sugar Growers' Society is the organized center of this new industry 

 Its objects are as follows: 



1. To secure for American farmers, laborers and capitalists the American market 

 for American grown sugar, instead of having the American market supplied with the 

 product of the highly protected and bounty-fostered beet sugar industry of Europe, or of 

 the cane sugar industry of the cheap labor countries of Africa and the East. 



2. To put into the pockets of the American people the $100,000,000 now sent abroad 

 annually for imported sugar one billion dollars every ten years. A sum which within 

 a dozen years or so may be $200,000,000 annually! 



3. To show the American people that this upbuilding of what is destined to be 

 one of the greatest of American industries and one of the most beneficent to American 

 agriculture, can be done without injustice to others and without unduly advancing prices 

 to consumers, but so that the enormous sums now sent out of the country every year 

 may be distributed among our own farmers and others engaged in cultivating the thou- 

 sands of acres of sugar beets and cane, and in operating the hundreds of enormous fac- 

 tories required to supply the people of the United States with sugar. 



4. These results to be aided by (1) appropriate tariff legislation to offset foreign 

 export bounties and to afford reasonable protection against foreign competition; by (2) 

 maintaining the same duties against sugar from the tropics as from other countries, in 

 the future as in the past, irrespective of the political relations of the East Indies or the 

 West Indies to the United States; and (3) by whatever encouragement may be offered 

 by the respective states and by localities that desire to secure sugar factories. 



5. In addition to these objects, the American Sugar Growers' Society, through it; 

 local and state organizations, will encourage farmers to become experts in beet and cane 

 culture, will act as a medium through which capitalists and others who wish to start 

 factories may reach localities that want factories, and will in every proper, reasonable 

 and legitimate way do all in its power to promote the best development of our domestic 

 sugar industry. The society will resist and try to prevent or circumvent any unjust 

 action toward the industry that may be attempted by the sugar trust, and will do its 

 utmost to secure for the growers of beets and cane the fullest measure of whatever help 

 may be extended to the industry by state or nation. 



Officers of the American Sugar Growers' Society President, R. M. Allen of Ames, 

 Neb., president Nebraska Sugar Beet Growers' Association; first vice-president, 

 Charles A. Farwell cf New Orleans, La., president United States Cane Growers' Asso- 

 ciation. Treasurer, Herbert Myrick of 52 Lafayette Place, New York, president Orange 

 Judd Company, and editor American Agriculturist of New York, and Orange Judd 

 Farmer of Chicago, 111.; secretary, B. W. Snow, Marquette Building, Chicago, 111., statis- 

 tician Orange Judd Farmer. 



