People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1895 — Where the Bounty Went. [ARTICLE]

Where the Bounty Went.

Under the Cleveland sugar tari one great trust gets all the tariff at! the republicans boast that it was m so under the bounty system. How much better was it? , ’i The records of the treasury depar ment show that during the fiscal yei ending June 30, 1894, the payments i bounty on sugar aggregated $12,09! 899, of which $11,114,390 was on cai sugar, $853,114 ou beet sugar, $17,3 on sorghum and $116,121 on mapl Of the bounty on cane sugar slo v ß6t 890 was paid to producers of Lou: iana, $323,166 of Texas, $22,113 Florida and $155 of Mississippi. The records also show that sl' i 14,290 bounty on cane sugar was ps to 578 producers, an average of $1 195.66 to each producer. The atnou: paid as bounty on beet sugar was < vided among seven producers or fa toriea, making the average payme to each $121,739. Well, suppose 'that silver shot take the place of gold in the treasu —one is as useless there as the ottw We d<m’t care whether “foreign vestors” are alert, or inert, or m t bottom of the sea, _*;•