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Show H Titist ys TIi e Farmers.- H Tlie sugar war, or the efforts of 1 the sugar trust, against the efforts M of the sugar beet farmer, is by no H means settled, but will be one of H the most important questions to M come up before Congress soon H after the holiday recess. The H question has settled down to a M 'fight between the American B farmers on the one hand and the M Cuban farmcis on the ofier, the H Cuban farmer being backed by mt me sugar trust ami the American H farmers by the American beet H sugar manufac'ureis. The sugar H trust has no American interests. B Its product is foreign. Its profits H are made on a foreign raw mater- H ial in which even American labor H cuts but a small figure. The sug- H ar trust in its demands says that B the Americon farmer and his pros- M pcrityiis nothing compared to that m of the Cuban. The American H farmer gave his sons to fight B Cuba's cause, nml, now according B to the doctrine of the trust lie H must also sacrific himself and his B family to the greed of this trust B that has no interest mi American H institutions. K Will the American farmer &it H idly by mid allow hiimelf to be H pursuadsd into going way back H and sitting down? We don't be- HL tfeveitl Hi n |