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Show I How Will It Effect us. H Tho expected ling npparcntl y h - 1 poned. The sugar trust has acquired a I controlling interest in the Hawaiian I commercial nnd gugar company, is 1 about to build a refinery nt Honolulu I nnd will of course monopolize the sugar 1 product of tho Sandwich islands. If 1 now that trust enn in.luco tho United 1 States to admit Bimar freo from the 1 Philippines nnl the Wost Indies, or I annex thoso islands, the trust will pro- 1 ceed to likewise got a monopoly of their I sugar. Thosuceossof this policy would I givo the American sugar refining com- pnny, or trust, wealth beyond computa- 1 lion, nnd its shares wouldjbo worth two I or three times as much as now. But 1 such a policy would annihilate our do- I . mestio sugar-producing industry. It I would ruin existing beet sugar factories ' I nnd cane sugar mills, and deptive American farmers of tho home market I ior enough beets and cano to produco I the $100,000,000 worth of sugar imported annually, They started out some years since, to put that vast sum into tho pockets of Amoiican farmers instead of having it go to tho bonnty.fed producers of Europe or the coolio sugats of the tropics. Tho outcome of tho war ehouU not be allowed to thwart this high purpose, especially since its defeat would bo to the profit of a -few monopo. lists in the sugar trust. The American people should buy thoir sugar from American farmeis. Orango Judd -Farmer. |