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Show dollars annually into the public treasury, relieving by just that much the tax revenue to be raised annually from the American people. FIGHTING AGAINST BEET SUGAR. American producers of Cuban sugar, in other words , American investors in-vestors on foreign soil, are determined deter-mined to defeat the proposed tariff on sugar. . It is not the aim of the advocates tne tariff on sugar to prevent competition or is it possible for this country to try to supply more than a portion of our domestic needs. It would not be good business to shut out foreign competition. On the other hand, it would be very poor business to remove all protection pro-tection from our domestic sugar industry in-dustry which must operate under American standards of iwages, and allow foreign sugars produced with the cheapest kind of labor to run the American product out of business. Only when the selling price of sugar is at the veiy minimum 'would the tariff protection have any bearing bear-ing on the price paid for sugar by the American people. At such a time the tariff protection would prevent foreign producers from wrecking the American beet sugar industry. At other times, however, the tariff would be no tax on the''. American consuming pubile but on the other hand would turn ten niillions of |