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Show How Tariff Made 1 Us Independent 1 To the Extent That We Are a Self-sustaining Self-sustaining Nation Protection Is Responsible At the present time wo Bhould I come Into partial realization of the Protective Tariff, under which we have built up our own manufacturing. Wo feel independent of Europe to the extent that wo can ho p ourselves supply ourselves with products and ' goods. Tho ono weak spot Hi our armor 1 Is sugar. About ten yews ugo wo ' started, through tho Tariff, to build J up mi Ameilcan beet sugar Industry under tho advocacy of the then Secretary Sec-retary of Agriculture, Mr. Wilson, who pointed out, In senson ami out, the folly of keeping our ninety millions mil-lions of people dependent on Germany, Ger-many, Franco nnd Russia for tho bulk, of our sugars, when wo could grow them here, out of our own soli. Ilu last year tho beet factories which wo had built up announced they would shut down, lnrgely because tho now Tariff did not enable them to contlnuo In business. Now, with tho European supplies cut off, wo may suffer for -..gnr. , We nr.-.y now bo thnnkful for what wo once called our Tariff fostered Industries, In-dustries, for they will enable us to go 011, taking euro of ourselves and, after awlil'.o, turn them to account by supplying the wnnts of others, to those who nro now crippling thony selves by wnr nnd whoso Industries, will not soon recover. ! Wo arc, Indeed, well prepared to become a self sustaining nation, and wo owo It largely to tho fact thnt for a long period wo have had a Tariff that has made possible the development de-velopment of Industries here, not do. pending on other countries for necessities nec-essities which wo can grow or make at home. In the ense of sugar, we havo one article with which we began too late, and which wo find unestnhllshcd among us now that tho European sup plies nro shut off. Cedar Rapids, Iowa Republican. |