Show GLOOMY OUTLOOK SEEN fOR SUGAR IN U SI Cuban and Philippine Imports Imports Imports Im Im- Im- Im ports Keep Prices Too Low Love Says Fully 75 pert per percent cent of of those engaged engaged en- en in making making- sugar in the United States will be forced out of business if present sugar prices prevail much longer This was the assertion of Stephen IT H. Love an official of tho the Utah- Utah Idaho Sugar compa company company- y In a talk on the sugar tariff situation before the Exchange club at t the e Hotel Utah Friday noon Ac Accusing using the Cuban sugar producers producers pro pro- of broadcasting false propaganda propaganda propaganda ganda in an ef effort ort to mislead American Amer Arner- American ican lean growers into inLo the belief that a higher tariff would not help them Mr Ir Love quoted quoted- comparative figures figures figures fig fig- ures for the past several years to show that after paSS passage ge of the McCumber Fordney-McCumber bill the price of beets rose from 50 in 1921 to in excess excess of 8 in 1922 and nd 1923 History would repeat itself he ho added and Sand the American farmer would now be bo getting more than 8 per ton for his beets if it were not for the the- press of Cuban and Philippine Philippine Philip Phllip- pine pin sugar shipments to this coun coun- try Mr Love took a rap at the American Ameri Amen can capitalists who have invested in the Cuban sugar industry by charging them with squeezing their profits out of the misery y of labor Personally he said I have no patience with persons who go into foreign countries for the purpose of producing sugar under labor conditions conditions conditions condi condi- that would not be tolerated in this country and then ask the domestic producers to get out of the way and let them them- take the market The speaker declared that the present tariff of 2 1 against Cuba is lower than that of any other sugar producing countries in inthe inthe inthe the world and quoted examples ranging from 1761 in Brazil to in Australia Australla Touching on the argument that a at t tariff lff increase will be be- detrimental to American trade in Cuba the sugar company official expressed the opinion that the tho farm fann prosperity prosper prosper- ity which would result from an adequate adequate ade ade- de- de quate tariff would benefit American manufacturers ten time times more more than the possible s reas of business in il Cuba |