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Show Loofbourow Scores j Sugar Control j: Lashing out at 'rubber stamp'" support of all New Deal legislation, without regard for its effect on the welfare of Utah, Fredick C. Loofbourow, Loof-bourow, Republican candidate for congress from the Second district, has campaigned throughout tftnh county the past week, speaking Thursday at Spanish Fork, Friday ; afternoon at Provo and Friday evening eve-ning at Lehi, before Hcpublicnn gatherings. "The Democratic congressman ( from this district voted for one New Deal measure which, if curried cur-ried to its intended conclusion, will destroy one of Utah's mo:t valuable industries," Candidate Loofbourow said. "I refer tp the Reciprocal Tariff act, passed by the last congre.'i.i, and under which the executive niny make reciprocal trade treaties with foreign countries. The first treaty so drawn was with Cuba, and re-) re-) duccd the tariff on Cuban HUgur from $2.00 per hundred to 90c p'-r i ' hundred. The retail price of sugar ! lias not gone uown accordingly. "The profit, of SM0 per bund- i red, has gone to the rcfincra of j Cuban sugar. Who owns the r'- fineries? Wall Street. The Chmsi ' National and National City Bunko of New York. 'It is' the published intentint) of Secretary of Agriculture Wfilla';n to limit and eventually !,irc' th; j sugar bet industry o'f the United j states, is this Reciprocal Tariff tho j first step in that direction? When the Democratic congressman vol- ' ed for this measure was he voting ! to 'protect' Utah's sugar beet industry? in-dustry? "The New Deal is all right in may respects, but it cannot be followed fol-lowed blindly. When the policiea of Wallace and Tugwell and Farley oppose the very livelihood of Utah, l they should .be fought to a fininh. If elected, that is what I propose to do," he concluded. |