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Show CRY, IS PURE BUNK. J La Follette who poses as a friend of the farmer, is now trying to thrust a knife into the Wisconsin beet sugar industry Wisoncsin farmers cannot raise beets in competition with sugar-cane in Cuba. His "Anti-Monopoly" cry, is pure bunk. He is working right into the sugar trust's hands and at the same time he is striking a hard blow directly at the sugar beet raisers of his own state. We are now producing in the United States one quarter of the sugar we consume con-sume reduce the tariff and it will be a mortal injury to the home industry, and inure to the benefit of the American sugar importing interests. It will kill the domestic production, competition will then be squelched and without competition, higher prices will inevitably carry to the consumer. Another cash crop will be abandoned. The factories will be idle millions of dollars invested to produce homegrown home-grown sugar will be lost. He stated in his speech last Monday, that the tariff must be reduced. He is either a friend or a foe of the farmer. The beet grower must decide. Menomonee Falls (Wis.) News. |