Zucchero, canna e barbabietola: Una lezione di oggetto . leLubbock ha fatto un discorso molto convincente, ed è stata sostenuta da sowell, non solo da Sir Thomas Sutherland e dal presidente, Lord Avebury, ma anche da manyillustri delegati coloniali, che la risolutionè stata portata da una grande maggioranza. Questo era esattamente ciò che voleva il governo. Furono prese Misure Immediate per chiamare una nuova Conferenza, che alla fine si incontrò a Bruxelles nell'inverno del 1901. Questa Conferenza fu una grande questione e il fbreign delegatessapeva che il governo britannico, per la prima volta, significava business. Ha richiesto un tavolo molto grande per accom-mo

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Sugar, cane and beet: an object lesson . leLubbock made a most convincing speech, and was sowell backed up, not only by Sir Thomas Sutherland andby the President, Lord Avebury, but also by manydistinguished Colonial delegates, that the resolutionwas carried by a large majority. This was exactly what the Government wanted.Immediate steps were taken to call a fresh Conference, which eventually met in Brussels in the winter of 1901.This Conference was a big affair and the fbreign delegatesknew that the British Government—for the first time—meant business. It required a very large table to accom-modate delegates representing Belgium, Austria, Hun-gary, Germany, France, Spain, Great Britain, Italy, Holland, Roumania and Sweden. This Conference had to deal not only with thoseabuses which were rampant in 1898 but also with a newmethod of carrying out, on a still larger scale, theprocess of exterminating all unaided competitors. Themanufacturers in Germany and Austria had taken aleaf out of the Russian book and developed a new way. 124 SUGAR of fighting the French. The industry in each countryformed what is called a Cartel. They were so similar, and their results so identical that it will be sufficient todescribe, very briefly, the German Cartel. The consump-tion duty, that is, the duty actually paid by the con-sumer, was 10s. per cwt. ; but the import duty, that is, the duty which anyone outside would have to pay inorder to enter into the competition, was 20s. per cwt.—just double. The surtax on imports was, therefore, 10s.per cwt. and, within the limit of that large amount, thehome producer could raise his price to the consumerwithout fear of outside competition. But to effect thisit was necessary that the whole industry should com-bine. They did so, and bound themselves down undersevere penalties to adhere to the arrangement. Therefiners were to raise the price to the consumer and topay the raw sugar producers a fixed share of the resultingprofit. The practical outcome

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