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Show i ; VK ARE ALL INTERESTED Arthur Brisbane, in his editorial column in the Hurst papers, says: ' The condition of the cotton crop is the best for this time of the year of any crop within three years. That's good news for the South, also the North. It shares in southern prosperity. pros-perity. "The North should not grudge a fair price for cotton but pay it will-' mgly. Too low a price will mean emigration em-igration and loss of southern labor, then a crop cut down and much higher high-er prices." In these two paragraphs, Mr. Brisbane Bris-bane sums up the reason for every section of the country supporting reasonable rea-sonable polacies which encourage Industrial In-dustrial development in other sec-J uons. No part of this land is sufTi-' cient. unto itself. Mr. Brisbane's ar-i gument applies with equal force to the raising of sugar beets. If foreign countries are allowed to ship sugar j in here without any tariff to protect: the home product, which is produced by higher priced labor, it will be only a little while until our domestic; Industry In-dustry is reduced to a starvation basis ba-sis or ceases to exist, as the farmers turn to other crops to save themselves themselv-es from ruin. Then the inevitable takes place, sugar prices shoot up, and we payj more than we should have done if j conditions had been maintained which would allow our own industries indus-tries reasonable . development and prosperity. . |