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Show to save tlio American beet sugar industry in-dustry from extinction due to dumping dump-ing foreign sugar produced with cheap labor on to the American market. mar-ket. Unless this is done, farmers and beet growers fear that the beet sugar factories will be unable to sell their sugar for a sufficient price in enabh the farmers to raise beets, or maintain main-tain their sugar factories. A duty of 1.8 cents per pound such as is being proposed, is the lowest imposed by any country, and would be but a small item to the American family compared to the advantage of enabling our own sugar beet industry in-dustry to exist and save us from being be-ing ait the mere; of the foreign sugar producer and speculator. I-ROTECT SUGAR BEET INDUSTRY INDUS-TRY Chambers of commerce and promotion pro-motion bodies in California towns around which sugar beets are raised are forwarding congress resolutions 1 urging slight increase iu sugar tariff i |