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Show DOMESTIC SUGAR SUPPLY. A $2, jGQ.OO'J b: et sugar factory is projected for County Cork, irc-iand, t i j . . t demands at least 4.000 acres (he fust year. Present profit ai d future economic iiidepcndence ere the goal. The f.t,Ti;ers of l!ie Milk River valley in Montana are guearan-lc-c-in,- almo-t 7,000 acres for a factory in I 925. The great Billings iactory uv s tl.i: product from a much larger acreage, paying the ...riTH.rs up to $2,700,000 for beets in a single year. Sugar independence inde-pendence a:-.d profit is worth while in any country. One of the most vital factors in Germany's ability to carry on the war wr,s her 300 .sugc.r fV:tu: Without doubt this var memory stimulated the Irish sugar idea. The United States should continually encourage domestic sugar production in quantities, a sugar supply adequate for either peace or var. Whatever is now pj.id as a tariff tax on sugar would otherwise have to be paid in some ether form of tax support for the government. 'I he millions of sugar factory money now going to the American farmer and the American laborer would be lost without with-out reasonable protection of American sugar producer; and the nation would be sugarless except at the caprice of the foreign sugar manufacturer. The tariff is not a tare upo:r, but a bonus to labor, as they proved in Germany and are preparing to prove in Ireland. |