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Show BBb & Our Sugar Industry. H jr Henry T. Oxnnrtl, prcalilont of Hie B American Itect-Sngnr Association, innilo B i strong nppcnl before the Ways and H ;.ronnn committee of tlic llotiso in behalf K of tlie retention of the bounty on sugar. H IU showed that n primary considera- H tic i which imlnccil tlie ennctmentof the H jircjoot law wr.s tliat we were sending H ntirciul for a product that wo can as well H prod u-o here, from 100,000,000 to K- H D00,0Vof gold nimually. Wolinvoscnt H ubronil for sugar In forty years, nearly H fSuU.COO.OOO. Tills Is an exlmtmlvo H ami unnecessary drain upon our pcoplo H for an agricultural artlele,'tlio raw ma- B torlnl forulilch wo liavo both soil and J; rlimato to raise, and It lias always been J tlio policy of thin and of all civilized J nations to cherish and foster any iiltI- J cultural product that promised so much J for the pco1o as utigar. Wo aro tlie Jj largest consuincraof sugarln tho world, J Our consumption is about sixty thrco )ounds per capita. We produco only 10 J per cent of tho total amount consumed J by our people, and wc coustinio nearly J one-tlilnl, or SO per cent, of tho norld'H j product; and tlio object of tho bounty J lnv is to chango tills relation. 77i, J Lot Angtltt, Cat, |