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THE SQGARIQUESTION. 
 
 Mr. Blake's Hostility \o the Befin* 
 ing Induitry. 
 
 Hli MlitakeD Viaws AnthorltatiTtly Kepbed to. 
 
 •• lake, for example, sugar. Tbey boast 
 of 'tbe low price of sugar. Hugar is low here 
 oo&jpared with itR price (lere a few years ago, 
 Out it is inordinately high here compared 
 with the pi ice in Englaud in the present 
 year. The price of the raw material iias Tallen 
 enormously. We do not get anything ap. 
 preaching the full benettt of that reduction. 
 We pay infinitely more than they do in Eng- 
 land, or in bond at New York. A largo part 
 of the excess is paid into the treasury, I 
 frankly admit, a larger sum (ban I like to 
 see levied on sugar. But a very large part 
 of the excess over the foreign prices, a part 
 approximating on the consumption of the 
 year to $2, 000,000 beyond what goes into 
 the treasury, is paid by the people of Canada 
 in effect to assitit tb'^ refiners to carry on 
 their busiueHs. Now, I paune here, I cannot 
 further this evouing discuss this phase ot 
 the tariff." 
 
 To the Editor qf the Montrbal Oacbtti : 
 
 Sib, — In the fortgoing extract ''om the 
 speech of the Hon. Edward Blake, delivered 
 at Malvern, on the 22ad inst., we have a re- 
 newal of the old attack on the sugar refining 
 interest. 
 
 I attribute to the speaker nothing worse 
 than complete ignorauce of the subject, but a 
 heavy responsibility rests with those who 
 have supplied him with the misinformation 
 which induced him to make such statements. 
 
 Taking the accusations as be makes them, 
 I assert that each and everyone of them is 
 practically untrue. 
 
 1. It is not true that sugar is inordinately 
 high compared with England, for, after de- 
 ducting the duty paid by the Canadian re- 
 finer to the Customs, sugar is actually at this 
 moment, quality I :- quality, r'.eaper in 
 Montreal than in London. 
 
 Second. It is not true that sugar is dearer 
 in bond here than in New York ; for it is, on 
 the contrary, a fact that there is a smaller 
 difference or margin betweeu raw and re- 
 fined in Canada than in New York, and de. 
 ducting the same relative drawbacks for duty 
 paid, sugar is cheaper here than there, either 
 in the open market or in bond. 
 
 Third. These facts being so, the preposter- 
 ous assertion tuat about $2, 000, 000 is absorbed 
 by the refiners falls to the giound — no wilder 
 statement was evei made, or one so obviously 
 contrary to facts. 
 
 It is notorious that the public is getting the 
 fall benefit of the cheapness of the commod- 
 ity. If tbere a man ot woman m the Do- 
 minion who does not kOow that sugar is 
 cheaper and better than ever before in his or 
 her experience, notwithstanding the large 
 tribute It yields to the public revenue 7 
 QEO. A. DBUMMOND. 
 President Canada Sugar Refining Oo.