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Show Senator Thompson, democratic senator from Kansas by accident, declares his intention of urging urg-ing the next congress to stop enforcement of the Underwood tariff law, by tho terms of which the tariff on sugar has already bcenTcduccd nnd sugar su-gar is to go on tho free list May 1, 191G. A great roar hns gone up from tho sugar producing states because their great staple has been singled out for particular Injury by the party which went into power specifically pledged thnt its tariff legislation should injure no legitimate industry. It Is acknowledged on all sides that the sugar industry in-dustry in our country has been dealt o hard blow by the reduced tariff and faces utter ruin if sugar su-gar Is allowed to go on tho free list. Tho government govern-ment treasury Is losing n lot of money on account of it. too, and no one pretends that the consumer hns been benefited n penny. As usual, the only bcncficinrics of free trade oro foreigners. It is, nevertheless nnd notwithstanding, great snort for republican protectionists to stand off nnd watch the democrats, lwth those who enacted the law and those who were hit squirm ns the result of their votes for congressmen nnd in con-gross con-gross becomes apparent. It is n valuable lesson in tho rudiments of protection nnd one not likely to bo lost on the country when once more it comes tlmo to decide between protection nnd free trade. |