to US by foreign manufacturers; but whether they reach that point or
not the people will have, alter that, all their sugar at the lowest price
that it can be produced for anywhere in the world and laid down in our

'Whetherthe bounty should remain in force until the expiration of
the time named in the law is purely a matter of business to be deter-
mined by ourselves in our own interests. If the policy of protection
to manufactures is to be maintained, the subcommittee are of opinion
that it would be ch'eaper to retain the bounty than to abolish it and
restore the duty, for the rate is the same— about 2 cents a pound.
All foreign sugars of every grade ought to be admitted free for all time;
and if our home manufacturers can not, in eleven more years of pro-
tection, successfully cope with German and French sugar-makers, they
can go out of business.
The amount of money paid as duty on foreign sugar imported into
the United States during the one hundred years prior to 1890, when
the duty was removed as to all coarse sugars, is very large. It
amounted to about $750,000,000 from 1875 to 1890.
