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Show as well as in preventing foreign monopolization mon-opolization of a necessary commod'ty. If the tariff were abolished, 'foreign sugar manufacturers could place sugar su-gar on our market at prices which our home producers (who pay wages commensurate com-mensurate with our standards of living) liv-ing) could never meet. Hundreds of other American industries are in the same position. LET'S PROTECT OUR WAGE EARNERS. "The tariff on sugar is a very important im-portant item to the Black Hills and it will increase with the development of new beet growing territory in and about the Belle Fourche irrigation project and the Rapid Valley. All contracts with beet growers in the past have been based on the probable price that will prevail in the American Ameri-can market when it is placed on sale by the mill owners. These contracts name a m.'nimum payment per ton for beets, and have a schedule attached which guarantees the grower addition-sums addition-sums dependent upon what the finished fin-ished product eventually brings,'' says the Deadwood, South Dakota, Pioneer Times. A tariff sufficient to equalize pro-luction pro-luction costs in the United States and foreign sugar-producing countries is an all-important factor in bringing irosperity not only to beet growers in South Dakota but in many other states |