Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1890 — Subsidies for Everybody. [ARTICLE]

Subsidies for Everybody.

Vermont farmers who have maple sugar groves insis. that the Federal Government ought to give them a bounty on the sugar they make from trees, just as much as the planters in Louisiana who make it from cane or the growers in Kansas who get it ont of sorgnum, and Congressman Grout, of that State, insists that the Ways and Means Committee shall, even at this late day, rectify the blunder. Mr. Groat and his constituents who have sugar maples are entirely right; if any producers of sugar are to receive a bounty, all producers of sngsr should. But why should only the owners of trees which ire sngsr maples be subsidized? If it will promote the prosperity of the nation to pay a bounty to tne Vermonter who has a grove of maple trees, why will it not enhance that prosperity still more to give a bounty to the * Vermonter who has no maple sugar “bush” but who has an apple orchard? —New York Evening Pool. Through violet air we see the town, ■ And the summer sun a-slipping down; The maple in the hazel glade Throws down the path a longer shade, And the hills are growing brown.