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Show H Some Good Pointeis. m H I'rom l'lcld and l-'arin, B There is one poiilt in favor of the ir- H , rigatcd west for crowing the best Btigar H beets in the world .which is not taken H into full account by those who discuss H the subject. In a word the irrigated H condition precludes the bad consequences H from rainfall during the ripening period H of the beets, which induces new roots H and dissipates the sugar content. For H ibis reason the very best success in the H "United States in growing sugar beets B will be had in the irrigated sections. B Eastern sugar refiners oppose the beet B sugar industry because it would reduce B the volume of their trade .Ninety per- H cent of the sugar importations is raw H pugar for their factories, a beet sugar H plant includes the refining process and H robs the trust of a market. Which will H itbeV Shall the 1 diners be protected H and! strengthened, cr tle cultivation o H beet sugar be encouraged? H We hope the death linger of the sugar H trust will not be stuck into tue pit) now B being baked in the senate chamber rehi- HB tivc to a duty tn such refined sugar as is BB mado from beets. Hero is what the B farmers want: A ttpeeifir duty equal o B one and a half cents a pound 011 sugar B testing ninety degrees, which is tlio B uverage quality of domestic iuw ui (.ar B made in our beet sugar and cane sugar 1 mills. This would be obtained by B making the Dingley rate of oneCwtita' B pound for seventy-live degrees test lU m gin at seventy-three degrees test. It is m G-100 cents a pound less than the senate 8 bill's complicated rate lignres on the B basis of the average declared . value of B raw sugar imported last year, and (MOO B cents more than the Dingley rate. A R further or differential duty of oue- B -eighth cent as special protection to r B liners which is enough to prevent B foreign refined sugar from underselling B -domestic refined of either home or B foreign production. This one-eighth B cent differential is the Dingley rate, B awhile the senates b'll makes the dif- B fcrential three-sixteentliB tu nearly one- B half.cent u pound, according to quality B of sugar and way it is figured. Farmers H want all sugars to pay these duties, B and hence oppose the Hawaiian free H sugar and the eight-tenths of one per- H cent discount of other reciprocity sugar Bv proposed in Dingley bill. Oil these two H ijtoints the senate bill is all light. |