People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1895 — Where the Bounty Went. [ARTICLE]

Where the Bounty Went.

Under the Cleveland sugar tariff one great trust gets all the tariff and the republicans boast that it was not so under the bounty system. How much better was it? The records of the treasury department show that during the fiscal year ending June 30, J 894, the payments as bounty on sugar aggregated $12,099,800, of which sll, li4, 290 was on cane sugar, $852,1V4 on beet sugar, $1?,312 on sorghum and $11(5,121 on maple. Of the bounty on cane sugar $10,8(58,896 was paid to producers of Louisiana, $223,166 of Texas, $22,113 of Florida and $155 of Mississippi. The records also show that sll,114,290 bounty on cane sugar was paid to 578 producers, an average of sl9195.(56 to each producer. The amount paid as bounty on beet sugar was divided among seven producers or factories, making the average payment to each $121,739. Well, suppose that silver should take the place of gold in the treasury —one is as useless there as the other. We don't care whether “foreign investors” are alert, or inert, or in the bottom of the sea. . „ _