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Show KNOW THE FACTS . The tariff is blamed for a lot of things for which it is not responsible. re-sponsible. Witness sugar as an illustration. While the price in our country was blamed to the tariff, the price in Canada and foreign countries was as high or higher. When sugar prices are above cost of production in this country, the tariff does not prevent foreign shipment at cut price if foreign producers care to make the drop. But the tariff does prevent the wiping out of our domestic beet sugar industry under abnormally low price conditions when the foreigner could ship in here below our cost of production. For the slightly higher price we have to pay under such conditions, con-ditions, we have the benefit of a domestic sugar industry which saves us from being wholly at the mercy of foreign producers. |