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Show - I'OIJTKS AMI J ARMING Not so very long ago one of the great political criesi was for "free sugar, su-gar, so that the poor rarmer can have sugar on his table." This year, a sack of first-class farm spud si will almost buy a sack of sugar; 10 to 13 pounds of butter will do as much; a case of eggs will buy two sacks and more; a fair hog will buy four sacks. And yet the free trade bugaboo for farm consumption is not dead; nor is the howler for an anti-butter substitute bill in every dairy state;. If anybody has profited by the development or America under un-der the tariff system, it ought to bo the farmer. Going back to the sugar suestion, sugar beets paid almost $100,000,000 to American farmers la.st year and again this year, for -a crop that would be impossible to sell under tariff-free sugar from cheap-labor cheap-labor foreign countries. |