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Show OGDEN MEN AND THEIR TARIFF EXPERIENCE. One of the provisions of the new tariff bill, which U being watched with much Interest in the beet sugar districts, dis-tricts, admits duty Tree 300,000 tons of sugar from the Philippine islands. The beet sugar people are not opposing oppos-ing tjuch a measure, but any greater amount of free sugar from those islands would bring a protest. Three years ago David Eccle3 anl H. H. Rolapp of Ogden, anticipating the throwing wide opon of our markets mar-kets to the products of the Philippine, had planned a trip to Amerlca'3 Aslauc colony, having in view the obtaining of sugar cane land. At that time, with c'uty free, the local capitalists flguro t "they could ralso and ship sugar to this country at less than the prevailing prevail-ing market price' and make bigger interest on the money lnvosted than was possible in the beet sugar industry. indus-try. The change In plans of the administration, ad-ministration, ending in tho failure ot the movement to open our doors to Philippine products, diverted tho at- ' tentlon of tho Ogdenltes. But that which they had been reasonably assured as-sured could be done still stands as a menace against the beet industry ot Utah and other slates where beets aro grown, and is only prevented from becoming be-coming an actual and serious danger by the proposed limitation of Imports. In their investigations, Messrs. Ee-cles Ee-cles and Rolapp learned that all tli-3 sugar the native Filipinos might produce pro-duce would never become a determm-ing determm-ing factor in the sugar market, but with the efficient and cheap labor ot the Chinese of the mainland to draw upon to an unlimited extent, tns Philippine sugar output could be maao the all controlling factor In fixing the price of sugar in the United States, particularly In the western stato.i where the cane sugar would find an easily accessible market from the seaports sea-ports of the Pacific CoasL This readjustment of the tariff schedules mual be followed with close scrutiny by western people who mua make their objoctloni known in most emphatic manner, If they are not to Buffer au unfair discrimination. Tho eastern part of the United States is qulto content to allow tariff revision if the revising downward is confined to the prodncta of the West, but we ot the West much assert our rights and our voice as an Integral part or this government and stand firmly tor equitable legislation in which tne East must bear it full sharo or the bur-don bur-don of free trade. |