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Show WHY NOT EE HONEST.' ' American producers of -Cuban sugar are Hooding the country with' propaganda ; to show that a slight, tariff on foreign produced sugar to enable en-able American beet-sugar industry in-dustry to compete with - the cheap-fo reign-labor-produced commodity is a bad' thing for the American people. All that our own sugar producers pro-ducers ask is a duty of l.'G cents per pound, the lowest sugar duty imposed, by any country. This is necessary to (liable them to pay America:! wages. Advocates of "free" sugar should have the honesty to say (hey favor cheap labor and at"1 billing to see American produced pro-duced sugar eliminated from the market. The beet sugar industry of the United States is essentially essential-ly an agricultural one. More than oD per cent of all the money obtained from the sabot sab-ot sugar is paid to fanners, the bulk of the rest goes to labor in American factories. The slight tariff asked is to protect American investors and American farmers who are developing our own country and maintaining our own payrolls. pay-rolls. If Americans wish to go to foreign country rnd invest (heir money mi a chance ot making large profits through cheap labiir they have a perfect per-fect right to do so, but1 they have no reasonable grounds for u.-lxing that they be allowed allow-ed to compete on an unequal basis u ith the man w ho stays at home, maintains the payrolls, pay-rolls, pays the local, state and national taxes and makes it possible for our country to prosper. |