2 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 requiredto 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 1% 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. 
QUANTITIES AND VALUES FOR THE ELEVEN MONTHS ENDED NOV. 30, 1896, COM- 
PARED WITH LIKE PERIOD FOR 1895. 
SUMMARY. 
Not above No. 16, Dutch standard. Pounds. Values. Pounds. Values. 
1895. 1896. 
Beet sugar, duty, 197,518,466 $3,488,811 996,882,058 $21,664,611 
Cane and other (under reciprocity treaty with 
Hawaiian Islands) free, 287,241,215 7,603,108 427,597,959 14,395,266 
Cane sugar, duty, 2,829,002,221 52,791,998 2,314,671,164 51,159,954 
‘Above No. 16, Dutch standard. 
Beet, cane and other, duty, 83,591,941 2,144,451 184,999,206 5,285,145 
2 free. 287,241,215 $7,603,108 427,519,959 $14,395,266 
Total sugar, } duty, 3,110;112,628 58,425,260 3,496,552,428 78,109,710 
IMPORTS IN DETAIL—FROM EUROPE. 
Under No. 16, Dutch standard. Pounds. Values. Pounds. Values. 
1895. 1896. 
United Kingdom, 11,726,525 $223,296 34,817,129 $818,717 
Austria-Hungary, 5,021,834 89,650 54,919,481 1,224,043 
Belgium, 17,077,297 292,119 83,874,887 1,974,567 
Germany, 167,085,525 2,973,033 814) 792, 974 17,505,183 
Netherlands, 4,780,704 75,652 7,300,662 156,592 
Other Europe, 5,569 345 21,437,146 489,532 
British North “America, 24,047,044 . 506,594 1,096,522 87,902 
Total, 229,744,498 $4,160,689 1,018,238,801 $22,256,536 
FROM ‘“‘COUNTRIES TO THE SOUTH OF US.” 
© Under No. 16, Dutch standard. Pounds. Values. Pounds. Values. 
: 1895. 1896. 
Central American States, 714,370 $9,087 
Mexico, 2, 704, 791 35,753 4,422,609 $77,482 
ide "West Indi es, 160, 7302) 007 2,921,691 252,098,003 5,435,206 
Cuba. 1,816, "940, 204 35,013,065 415,344,400 10,100,120 
Other West Indies, "162,002,834 2, 807, 100 342,630,730 7,157 586 
Brazil 159, 163, 682 3,286,460 
Other South America, 106,501,000 2,281,172 168, 847, ‘657 3, 716, 369 
Total, 2,249,665.206 43,067,868 : 1,342,507,081 $31,073,223 
FROM THE “CHEAP LABOR” COUNTRIES OF THE ORIENT. 
Under No. 16, Dutch standard. Pounds. Values. Pounds. Values. 
1895. 1896. 
China, 709,376 $15,334 368,389 $7,833 
East Indies, 301,010, "479 5,583,094 662,182,292 14,061,184 
Hawaiian Islands, 287, 241), 215 7,603,108 427,519,959 14,395,210 
Philippine Islands, 1B, 832, 592 1,052,804 127,013,996 2,161,762 
Other Asia and Oceanica, 56, 243 926 31,021,086 823,692 
Other countries, 148,012, 975 1,989,339 475 14 
Africa, 21) 7489, 318 410,755 130,221,152 3,140,325 
Total, 834,352,198 $16,655,360 1,378,327,299 $34,590,020 
