Sugar will be greatly lowered in cost to the consumer, while the bounty given to the domestic producer will soon establish the cultivation of beet and sorghum sugar in the United States, as the same policy has done in Germany and France.
Sherman discusses the expected reduction in sugar costs and the promotion of domestic sugar cultivation due to the bill.
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