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Show ECONOMY FOR ALL SUGAR PLANTS General Superintendent L R. Kc-cles Kc-cles of the Amalgamated Sugar company com-pany states that improvements nnd repairs on the factories of the company com-pany will be minimized this year, due to ihe tear of the management that President -'dect Wood row Wilson's administration ad-ministration will lower the tariff in sugar and thereby reduce its market value. "We cannot meet the competition cf island cane sugar." said Mr. ESccles, "and to avoid the chance of losing money in the sugar business this year we will get along with the machinery machin-ery as it Is and will make no improvements im-provements or repairs. Cane sugar can be made in Cuba for 1 1-2 cents a pound, and ocean transportation and the refining process proc-ess being cheap, il Is quite impossible impossi-ble for the beet factories to compete In the sugar market with this competition compe-tition without a protective tariff ' Mr Kccles stated thp.l his company would contract for the usual acreage acre-age of sug:r beets this year but would not care to purchase a larger ton-unge ton-unge His Investigations in Cuba led him to the conclusion that without government protection by a tariff about as large as at the present timej the beet sugar business will necessarily neces-sarily be placed at a disadvantage. Contracts for beets are being en-t. en-t. red Into over the entire fieid cov- red by the company's factor ll"' -ever, all the superintendents have Lcen Instructed to curtail expenses :nd avoid the expenditure of monev for improvements. |