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Show same thing that has happened in the rubber situation. It is human nature to demand the highest price when one ahs a corner on the product. The only way to prevent pre-vent being held up is to prevent the corner, and this can best be done by competition American rubber coming com-ing rom the Philippines or other points in the tropics would do this just at America sugar is doing it. The cheapest market in the long run may become the highest market if domestic domes-tic competition is eliminated. The rub ber situation proves it. WHY RUBBER IS EXPENSIVE The prices of automobile tires have hsen advancing rapidly during the past few weeks. The cause we are told, is the unprecedented rise in the price of crude rubber which has advanced ad-vanced 36 cents to $1.15 per pound The advance is due to the; corner on the crude rubber output on the world. Therte have 'been vehement (protests (pro-tests from tire manufacturers and from automobile users. Conferences have been held with a view of remedying rem-edying the situation. It has been suggested that Americans', go into the rubber growing business. This migmt ultimately bring relief but the trouble is that five or six years must elapse at best, before American crude rubber can be brought into the market. mar-ket. The reason that America has depended de-pended on British crude rubber is that the British, using native labfcr could produce it cheaper. According to free trade doctrine the arrangement arrange-ment should have been ideal. But fortunately for-tunately it did not work out that way The cheapest market has become the dearest. The free traders maintain that we should do the same thing about sugar j buy in the cheapest market. Eliminat ing the sugar tariff would cut off American production because the Cu- ! ban producer could undersell the American Am-erican producer. But what would happen hap-pen when the wily Cuban had eliminated elimi-nated all competition? Exactly the |