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Show ! T( PP.OTKC'f SUGAR INDUSTRY t In criticising- the proposed ,:i'iiT nn sugar, opponents of the measure s:,y it will increase the price ' to ronstsiuor some two cents a pound and that the ones who- will reap the benefit will be the speculators specula-tors ami .not the producers. Without such a tariff , the American Ameri-can b"et sugar industry cannot ex- ' ist against competition of foreign sugar prodiviod with cheap labor. Without this protection, American Ameri-can farmers raising sugar beets could not be tvii.l suiiieaiH return for their I cron to enable them to grow beets. With the .American beet sugar in-dus'try in-dus'try gone, the ! S. would be who! ly al the merry of the foreign sugar j pr-e-lecra-a and speculators and we i would have no beet crop to balance the t-ituaiion. The tariff on sugar is not for the benefit of the speculator but is for j the benefit of the American beet j . grower ami sugar producer and also j for the benriit the American peo-I peo-I pie by aspiring them the development, develop-ment, of t.hei,- ,r,Ir,,tio ;.ugar i,1(lus. j try which win make them independ-j independ-j em f foreign supplies. : & |