. Something about sugar; its history, growth, manufacture and distribution . ted on sugar brought into Francein foreign bottoms. Even with this protection the domes-tic producers were not satisfied. French colonial sugar, whenexported, received the benefit of customs drawback of 120francs per 100 kilograms, and the same privilege was accordedhome-grown sugar upon which no duty whatever had been was tantamount to an export premium of 120 francs per100 kilograms, and it may well be imagined that under this pa-ternal arrangement old factories came back to life and new onessprang into be
. Something about sugar; its history, growth, manufacture and distribution . ted on sugar brought into Francein foreign bottoms. Even with this protection the domes-tic producers were not satisfied. French colonial sugar, whenexported, received the benefit of customs drawback of 120francs per 100 kilograms, and the same privilege was accordedhome-grown sugar upon which no duty whatever had been was tantamount to an export premium of 120 francs per100 kilograms, and it may well be imagined that under this pa-ternal arrangement old factories came back to life and new onessprang into being. Under this regime by 1836 nearly one-thirdof the sugar refined in France was beet. The payment of thispremium was so great a drain on the government treasury thatin 1840 the authorities seriously considered the buying up of allthe beet-root sugar factories then in operation for forty millionfrancs and the equalizing of the tax on foreign and domesticsugar. The scheme was not carried out, but in 1843 beet-root * The excess of import duty over the domestic revenue NAPOLEON I BEET SUGAR IN EUROPE 133 sugar and cane sugar were placed on the same basis. This hurtthe domestic industry severely, and if it had not been for the set-back to the cane production by the abolition of slavery, the beetinterests might have met with ruin. Nevertheless, in spite ofmany adverse turns of fortune, the general trend was forward. Beginning with the year 1836, the beet-sugar industry in Ger-many, which had been paralyzed by the raising of the Conti-nental blockade, went ahead rapidly. The German manufactur-ers gradually succeeded in obtaining a higher extraction ofsugar from the beet and consequently their operations showedan increased profit. Krause of Austria and Schubarth of Prus-sia, both of whom had studied beet-sugar making in France,did much by their efforts to rehabilitate the industry in Ger-many, where it has steadily grown in importance ever since. The manufacture of beet sugar w
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