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the same value? It has been urged that we would 
find an outlet in Canada and England. This may be 
the case, but at what a difference in price ! 
Both the Canadian and the English markets are open 
to our sugars, and if they at any time offer prices as good 
or better than any other country, our produce will go there 
free of all restrictions, and our planters will no doubt at 
once avail themselves ot any such inducements. 
But what about Canada? The Dominion's demand 
for our sugars can hardly be called a fa6lor in our political 
economy. I think I am right in stating that our entire 
export thither does not amount to much over one twenty- 
fifth or less, of our crop (which for the sake of argument 
I will put down at about 120,000 tons per annum,) or 
say 5,000 to 6,000 tons. To suppose that by closer trade 
relations with the Dominion we could increase their 
demand for our produce is a fallacy. Their tariff a6ls 
against the higher class of our sugars, and in any case 
the northern people would not bid for our yellow 
crystals at anything likely to compensate us for the loss 
of the United States markets. The hallucinations about 
the Canadian market becoming a large customer for our 
sugars may therefore be abandoned, and on this I may 
speak with some authority, seeing that my firm has been 
a shipper thither for a long period, and its members know 
all that can be known here about that market. 
Then comes the question about the English market. 
I think this might be answered by the mere statement 
of fa6t that, in spite of all that has been said in its favour, 
our planters, who no doubt know best where their ad- 
vantage lies, continue to make by far the larger por- 
tion of their crop for sale in the United States and not 
