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Show THE SUGAR TARIFF. Recently some' interesting facts concerning beet sugar were brought out when the Mountain States Beet Growers Association presented a request re-quest for small tariff increase on imported im-ported sugar. According to the association's request, re-quest, such an increase would not cost the average household more than 50 cents a year additional, and would prevent domestic producers, who are now being throttled by the low duty! competition, from being forced out of j business. Last year the return from j the sale of sugar beets barely met pro-' duction costs. . It is estimated that within 10 or 12 years the domestic sugar industry could, if necessary, produce all the sugar we need, thus placing us beyond the danger of a foreign monopoly. If beet growing were profitable, many farmers, in suitable localities, would turn land now used for wheat and oth-: cr grains to sugar beets, thus bring-! ing about more prosperous and better-balanced better-balanced agriculture. It is the duty of Congress to give scientific and careful attention to this proposed tariff increase. Domestic industries should not suffer because of foreign cheap-labor competition. |