Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-07-20 | Page 2 | Letherwood Sees Faults in Sliding Scale

r ri i I b SCALE Those Tose Proposed Proposed'S ed S So Fa 1 l N Not t Con V g lamanS laman'S YI 1 S 1 u 11 the th A sugar u af a. a thu based bild on en any Y e et oi f d would be a a. a disaster r t th f ug b bee t industry in In the opinion of Con i Coh grassman E. E 0 O. Leatherwood L wh wh returned horns home from Washingto wc Saturday a morning The congress man mair man ac by his Kis family made the tho trip by auto and J. J main here her until shortly the tha horly house reconvenes In September S I The d determined ed fight to a eliding scale trl thrift tariff on the i beet sugar suga industry tr he safaris safaris' beIng be- be 1 Ing n w waged ged not by the Cubans or oz t the free traders trader but butr by American r dollars but byJ J r 1 Any scale suggested do i h i y J d declared cl red has been Id devised by Am America cap capitalists who wiio B see seea a. a j chan chance of or slipping f fore horse hOre ore Ipat past the walls walls' unnoticed t 1 If f these hese capitalists who capitalists Control the Cuba puba guba sugar situation ho can n fore force such a sliding scale fuch scle through urh congress con con- gress it will be boa bea a. a for the th 1 western beet grov growers gos go rs s Wall W l street r et can Cal manipulate the sugar market marke import and store large of q quantities a I foreign sugar sugar when thel prIce f. f hleb the tariff Js' Js Js is' J low v and n thereby nullify nulty the intended d pr protection t ton fo for fot the domestic Industry He voiced his reference preference for fora a flat fiat tariff rate b the possibility that a a satisfactory sliding put out scale might 4 eventually e i i be worked A less ieee open bu potent but lobby he j added Is applying the pressure presure to reduce the tariff taif In line lne the toe established pr practice cUce pf t f the ln- ln east to its own nest neat elt at t the west 1 expense p of ot the et 1 d