Show WANT SUGAR DUTY KEPT Farmers Object to Pro Pro- Proposed I posed Lowering of Tariff NEW YORK TOnK Au Aug Aug- 14 ThUe While t te e prices of ot mot most food products ts have been rising during tho the past few months sugar augar remains a exception Wholesale quotations on both refined and nd raw sugar eu-ar arc moro more than two cents centa a pound low cr than a year ago Under these conditions condition sa aas s Facts About Sugar the public has hag lot loot Interest In the at- at attempt at attempt tempt being made by those In- In In Interested production In Cuban sugar tion to bring brine about a 0 reduction Jot i the Import duty but thu this very do- do de decline cline dine In prices ha shad shod the eftI ett df 1 5 of Intensifying the Interest of b bee bee- bec growing goro Ing farmers farmer In the western states otates who are r paid for tor their crop cropIn cropIn cropin In proportion to the market ot of sugar and who that a further reduction In their net re- re returns returns re returns turns will make It Impossible for them to grow crow sugar beets In con petition with Ith ith other farm fann crops crop F Various farmers organIzations Including the tho American Farm arm Su- Su Bureau Sureau Bu Bureau reau Federation and the th Intern Intern- International l Farm Congress have adopt adopt- adopted adopted ed cd resolutions recently urging tha that t no reduction bo be b made In the duty on sugar which they point to as one of the thc few Items In the schedule that Is of direct benefit to the farmers of ot the States They accuse those thoo wh J have havo b ben been n agitating for a reduction reduction tion In the Import rate of ot Incon incon- inconsistency Inconsistency In claiming on Oft the on hand that a reduction In the tar tar tar- Iff on sugar will lower its Ils 14 cot cost V o otho othe the tho consumer while admit admitting tin II ott on the other hind nd It Is la the tion competition of the larger crops grown IIron In Inthe inthe Inthe the United States during the pa put paz t eason that has hils been the main fa La tor Lator fator In the recent decline In price prices CUBAN PROFIT They quote from a market r re review view re-view vIew by an association of ot refiners and Cuban producers producer ia recently a no ac July 18 which to tho the pressure from front grown sugar ugar as being the tho eau cause causa of othe the continued d decline In prices to show how that consumers rs ar are receiving the benefit of ot a reductIo within the past pa t year amounting to t more Cuban than the entire tariff on oct Cu- Cu Cu ban sugar augar which Is cents centi a 1 pound Their argument Is la that th l to rIve give the Importers of ot sugar su a further antage ad o oer o'er over er domestic producers by bv lowering 10 the pro present nt tariff rate would reduce the competition now exist exists by cutting 10 down American production and so ao would injure consumers rather than ben ben- benefit hen ben benefit them P H CO COST PROnE PROBE Representatives of ot farming In particularly object to the tho course of o the tariff L commission In It Its recent investigation of at the relative costs coats of ot producing sugar in hc the United States and nd Cub Cuba he- he l cause they assert isert that the con has ha based its Inquiry Upon 1 a 0 comparison ot of manufacturing p costs instead of at upon which the they contend Is la the thereal thereal real roal measure of the ability of the domestic and foreign Industries to compete on equal term terms and thy they are aro preparing to ask Coolidge t to return the re report ort to InstructIon Instructions to stud Bud this phase of the sub Bub nub nub- In case the tho commission rec rec- rec a rate of oC duty which will American endanger the ability of ot Amer ican farmers to continue production In comp competition with their the imported product They ei ea e that i the tho tariff law 1110 authorizes the pros pros- presIdent Ident to change the duty on an an change din Imported ha has y commodity Alf only i- i when a 0 taleen I place lace In the I relative i cot cost of oC production and abroad and that no at hon home such I change has hu occurred In ln the th cost coit cot cot- Cr sugar sInce the pre ent lw hw was WL en I In k tJ |