Show TARIFF QUESTION BETTER UNDERSTOOD Desiring to protect the domestic beet sugar industry President President dent Coolidge has declined to lower the sugar tariff This place places no hardship on the consumer the president explains because sugar now is 5 2 1 cents wholesale a pound barely over the prewar prewar prewar pre pre- war price whereas all other foodstuffs are 50 per cent higher I do not believe we can maintain such reasonable prices if we destroy our domestic industry The President said if the price should go up abnormally he might wish to reconsider The President is is right Our OUI home sugar industry is all all' that saves us from being entirely at the mercy of the foreign sugar producer and speculator President Coolidge recognizes the fact that the tariff question is no longer a political issue but a cold blooded business proposition to be considered in in the light of its effect o on n workmen farmers farmers' and the consuming public |