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Show DISCOURAGES PRODUCTION. I What is the effect of constant agitation for a reduction in the sugar tariff? At present it is just enough to give the American beet sugar industry a chance to exist in competition with cheap labor foreign production. The constant agitation to lower the tariff tends to make the farmer who raises sugar beets uneasy, it keeps the beet sugar factory : unsettled, and throws a wet blanket of discouragement over this domestic industry which saves our nation from being at the mercy of foreign producers. Some sugar factories state that their crop this year will be only 50 per cent of what it was last year. This is a discouraging situation. How much better, it would be if western farmers and western sugar factories could feel assured that over a period of years they would have certain tariff protection which they could count on in making the investments and improvements necessary to build up the sugar beet industry to the position it should command in this nation. |