Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1898 — A Possible Sugar Factory At Rose Lawn. [ARTICLE]

A Possible Sugar Factory At Rose Lawn.

Democratic free-traders who claimed that the enactment of the Dingleylaw would ruin our market abroad are not saying anything about the official figures showing the exports of 1897 to have been the largest in the history of the country. The Populist Convention recently held in St. Louis vehemently declared against further fusion with Democrats. The leaders attributed all the confusion and loss of strength during the past two years to the entangling alliance entered into with the Democrats. The leaders declared absolutely against any further combinations of the sort.

The apparent determination of Mr. Bryan to make 16 to 1 and 16 to 1 the only issue so long as he remains before the country in the position of chief spokesman and representative of the Bryan Democracy, has led a good many silver Democrats all over the country to the belief that some broader man, who will not confine himself exclusively to a single hobby, is likely'tor be a more successful candi- , date for the next national campaign. It seems that Senator Morgan was mistaken in his assumption that President Cleveland really favored the annexation/>f Hawaii, and based his apparent opposition upon technicalities which could easily have been removed. Mr. Cleveland rushed promptly to press on hearing of the Senator’s expression of views, anil assured the palpitating public that he, as well as the sugar trust, was dead against the annexation of HuVaii, which has been and is favored by the Republican party. Because the Treasury gold reserve has passed the $162,000,000 mark and is still moving upward, it is no reason why Statesmen should not provide for a rainy day and enact such currency legislation as will preclude the possibility of the draining of the Treasury gold through the emlless-clmin system of presenting greenbacks for redemption which must bo immediately reissued. It is hoped that enough sound-money Democrats will be found to co-operate with the Republican in the Senate to insure the adoption of some such currency measure as that suggested by President McKinley in his message to Congress. The large annual increase in the consumption of sugar showH a constantly widening field for the growers of sugar beets and the promoters of sugar beet factories. The sugar consumed in 189(5 was 1,900,086 tons, but in 1897 was 2,09(5,260 tons, an increase in the year of 166,177 tous or 272,854,000 pounds. Of the total production in 1897, only 41,847 tons was from beets grown in the United States. The total sugar production of the United States was 886,650 tons, leaving other countries to supply us with 1,760,607 tons, most of it coming; from Europe. There seems no reason why this should be, possessing, ns we do, the best sugar beet land in the world. .The free-traders are still trying to tell the people that the cause of the reduction of wages in the New England cotton mills is found in the iniquitous Dingley law. When such assertions are persistently make by Democratic statesmen

they point to a lack of sincerity, as a casual examination of the facts and conditions as they exist shows clearly that the operations of the tariff law have nothing whatevei to do with the reduction of wages and the strikes irf New England It is simply a question of internal competition and' the ability of Southern cotton manufactures, by reason of lower Images and less freight charges, to place their finished product upon the market at a lower figure than the New England manufacturers. This necessitates a reduced cost of production among the New England mills, and has resulted in a cut in the wages of the employees

Monon Nows. Wm. Kile, of Rose Lawn, was in Monon last Saturday He informs The News that the prospects are favorable for the establishment of a sugar beet factory at that point the coming season. A representative of syndicate that has in contemplation the founding of several of these factories in this section of the State visited Rose Lawn last week for the purpose of interesting land owners in the enterprise. He wants pledges from the farmers to devote so many acres to beet culture, and if a sufficient amount of acrenge can be subscribed to warrant the company in locating a plant there, it will be completed in time to work up the coining seasoh’s crop. Mr. Adams, who has large land interests around Rose Lawn, has promised to devote 1,200 acres to the culture of the new sugar product, while others are giving like encouragement. Northern Indiana beats the world in growing a fine quality of sugar beets, and The News expects to see a wonderful development of this hitherto dormant territory, as a result of beet culture;