THE SUGAR INDUSTRY. 



120 million dollars per year more wool, hides, cotton, tobacco, vegetables, breadstuffs, 

 dairy produce, fruits and nuts, hops, hay, oils, rice, flaxseed, bristles, bark, sumach, 

 chicory, eggs, hair, etc. Add imports of manufactures of hides, wool and cotton, 

 most of which could be made in this country from domestic produce, and we have a 

 total of nearly 300 million dollars a year, of which American farmers could, should 

 and must have a larger share without necessarily curtailing their exports of farm 

 products. Some officials wax jubilant over agricultural exports of 570 millions, appar- 

 ently blind to the fact that fully half of these exports are required to pay for farm 

 imports, exclusive of tea, coffee, and similar articles not now produced within our 

 borders. Payments for these imports of raw produce and manufactures of them 

 during the past six years have been If billions of dollars twice as much as the entire 

 interest-bearing national debt. 



PRESENT AND FUTURE COMPETITION IN SUGAR. 



The astonishing changes in the world's sugar situation during the past two years 

 are revealed in Table B.* It will be seen that in spite of the almost annihilation of 



* Table B MORE RECENT IMPORTS OF SUGAR INTO THE UNITED STATES WITH THE 



QUANTITIES AND VALUES FOR THE ELEVEN MONTHS ENDED NOV. 30, 1896, COM- 

 PARED WITH LIKE PERIOD FOR 1895. 



Total, 



2,249,665.206 843,067,868 1,342,507,081 



FROM THE "CHEAP LABOR" COUNTRIES OF THE ORIENT. 



Under No. 16, Dutch standard. 



China, 

 East Indies, 

 Hawaiian Islands, 

 Philippine Islands, 

 Other Asia and Oceanica, 

 Other countries, 

 Africa, 



Total, 



Pounds. 



1895. 



709,376 



301,010,479 



287,241,215 



75,832,592 



56,243 



148,012,975 



21,489,318 



Values. 



$15,334 

 5,583,094 



Pounds. 



1,052,804 

 926 



1,989,339 

 410,755 



662,182,292 



427,519,959 



127,013,996 



31,021,036 



475 



130,221,152 



$31,073,223 



Values. 



$7,833 



14,061,184 



14,395,210 



2,161,762 



14 

 3,140,325 



834,352,198, 816,655,360 1,378,327,299 834,590,020 



