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Show It is announced that the food administration is contemplating a vigorous enmpaign to induce I farmers to plant more sugar beet acreage next I season. This effort ought to succeed. There is n good market in America for sugar produced in America. We also have a good export market r.s long as Germany is barred from the field. But It Is worth while to remember that the Industry which can now be so confidently encouraged to expand wns on the verge of ruin In 10M, when the placing of sugar on the free list was threatened. threat-ened. Beet sugar factories and cane sugar mills were closing and the farmers were abandoning beet sugar production. Only the outbreak of the war and the hasty repeal of the clause of the tariff law which proposed to place sugar on the free list saved the Industry from ruin. Let us expand the American sugar industry, but let a not forget how near we came to ruining it by the enactment of a tariff law drawn on democratic lllni'H. |