Show maintaining n ame american wages t sugar is selling at a low record price for the year down to for taw raw porto rican and tor for tine fine granulated the hawaiian crop Is estimated at tons above last years yield breaking all records heavy rains have interfered with the g cuban harvest indian sugar yield Is estimated much below the average but so many other countries are pros ducine more sugar both beet and cane that the total crop is estimated well above last years yield the position of 0 the sugar market tody illustrates the wisdom of a reasonable tariff which prevents the an of the american beet sugar industry and saves to the farmers and wo rauen millions and millions of dollars in wages which would otherwise be wiped out this is of much greater advantage to the american public than a few dollars which might be saved temporarily due to low foreign sugar prices As this phase of the tariff question is more generally understood it will gradually be eliminated from politics |