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Show siiKir, and it asks If It wouldn't he belter lor that sugar to be iniiniifac-tured iniiniifac-tured In this country, thus giving additional ad-ditional employment to labor mid retaining re-taining that amount of money In thin country? This sound so pliiiisulili) that nine out of t''n nu n would say, Yes, to thin proposition. It looks hh if $mi,immi.iiiio more would bo paid mil to the HtiKar beet raisers and to the employes em-ployes In sugir factories and almost any one would say that this would be a good thing for the country. The avcr-uk avcr-uk man doesn't rea.-ioii very deeply and he Is apt to accept a plauaable argument, ar-gument, without examining It cloudy. It Is this fact that accounts for the general belief In protection. Yet the whole theory of protection rests upon no stronger argument than Is contained con-tained in the above statement, which Is an utter fallacy. It Isn't better to make sugar or anything any-thing else in this country If we can Import it cheaper than we can make It. No matter how much we Import we don't send a dollar of money out of the country to pay for It. An Industry which can only be established and continued con-tinued under protection doesn't add a dollar to the wealth of the country or add anything to the effective demand for labor. Importations Into a country are always al-ways paid for by the exportation from that country. There Is no such" thing as International money. The money of the United States, whether gold, silver or paper, never leaves the Culled States .although It may have a small circulation just outside the borders. International and Interstate trade Is always the exchange of good made more cheaply In one country or one section of the country for goods made more cheaply elsewhere, and Is mutually profitable. The $si).ooo,00i) worth of sugar we import Is paid for by our exports of grain, meat, machinery, machin-ery, oil, lumber, cotton, etc. If the hulance of trade Is against us that Is If we Import more than we export the 'mlance Is settled In gold not gold as money, but as merchandise at so much in ounce, the same as we would export ex-port wheat at so much a bushel. If rade Is In our favor we Import the gold at so much an ounce, but the trade Is Just as profitable In the one case as In the other, otherwise there" wouldn't be any trade. If sugar or anything else that can be more cheaply Imported is restricted rom coming In through a tariff to enable en-able them to be produced In this country. coun-try. It means ao much less of other goods produced here are demanded by other countries that there is therefore there-fore that, much less demand for labor In these other Industries, that 90V ' 0011,01)0 consumers of sugar have to pay more for It for the benefit of the sugar trust. How small a share of the benefits of this tax go to the sugar beet raiser Is seen by the fact that for the $4..'0 or $5.00 per ton the farmer farm-er receives for his beets the sugar trust gets about $1H for the ttiiR.ir made from a ton of beets. How little benefit the sugar consumers of Utah get from having sugar factories at their doors Is seen by the fact that they pay ft per hundred more for their sugar than do the people of Kansas City.. Whatever reason there may have been for the protection of our "Infant Industries" those reasons no longer exist. The Infants have grown to lusty manhood. Almost any of them can compete with the world. Our Improved Im-proved machinery and more efficient labor enables us to successfully compete com-pete with Industries In countries where labor Is much cheaper. What protection does Is to create monopolies which charge more for their goods to the American consumer than to the foreigner. The sugar trust Is one of these monopolies which, not satisfied with big profits, swindled the government govern-ment out of millions of dollars In duties through fraudulent weighing scales on the New York docks. A PROTECTION FALLACY. . i . We have received from Senator Smoot a congressional document on Ihe "Indirect Ileneflts of Sugar Heel Culture." So far as It treats upon the subject of the tltlo we have no criticism criti-cism to make. Hut on the first page of the pamphlet the statement Is made that we Import $80,000,000 worth of |
