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Show m '? v 'f BBB; ousting the B SUGAR TRUST BBB .;. H The hearings befoia tho llardwlck H sugar committee show conclutilvely H that every cuuo-Biigar refiner in the K United States regards the domestic B boct-sugar Industry as n strong, grow- B ing, and dangerous competitor of the H Sugar Trust and Its allied and luric- BBBJ pepdont refiners, and that they nil BBBJ , advocate cither nbaolutc free trade BBBJ or hcuvy reductionrf In tho sugar tar- BBBj Iff as a means of killing or crippling H bect-supm' competition. H Congre-isman Martin uccuses his R domestic brethren of Just "knowing It B privately," while ho Is out in tho op- H en. Ho B "I think 1 can understand, If I can B not sympathize with, the desire o( K gcntlomen to i-ub1i this legislation BHBT IhiougU this IIuubo with jimt as lit- H tie nolBo as possible. I havo no doubt H thoy wouhl like to deliver this moiis- M lire out of this body us silently and H oxpodltipuHly as It Whs Conceived In H tho committee mil ratified in tho B caucus, and that, I think, Mr. Chnlr- BBBl' man, was a record in such lcglshi- PBB' thin, considering tho fact that this BBB , measure Involving tho certain vtlp- BBB ing out of between fifty ami sixty H millions or dollars of roveuuo and tho H certain crippling and possible wiping BBBti out of a great American Industry. H Confronted with a situation such as BB that, 1 think that any time for the H consideration of this bill would bo H too much time for those gentlemen H who favor It. Hut perhaps I ought BBBJ not to be too severe In my obsorvn- BBB tlon about tlio manner of enacting BBB such Important legislation, bocauso 1 BBB am perfectly well aware of tho fact BBflj notwithstanding what tho vote on BBh this bill will be, that there arc many BBJ gentlemen on this side of tho Houbo BBJ whoso position with roferenco to this BBB legislation differs from mino only BBBV, by reason of tho fact that I am knock- B ing it publicly as woll as privately, M 1 know full well, Mr. Chairman, that H'' thoy aro just as relieved as I am B by the knowlcdgo that It will soon B bo on Its way, destined neither to B reach Its destination nor to roturn to H Us |