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Show ''ME I'MRMEi: AND 'nn.: coap. tarifc l'';gures lecenily published in refe-eir refe-eir e to the ,.:u;ban sugar industry ' .how that the average price paid ) ilie Cuban farmer for his cane is abrut $2.25 a ton. As the manufac-urer manufac-urer obtains about 230 pounds of ugar from a ton of cane he pays a trifle less than a cent a pound far sugar in the cane. The quantity of sugar obtained last season from a ton of sugar beers in the United States, according to figures of the .Department of Agriculture Agricul-ture was about 254 pounds. Beets are purchased in the United States lor the most part on a profit sharing basis by which the grower receives :i certain guaranteed price and an additional amount based on the selling sell-ing price of sugar, so that the exact sum cannot be determined until the mga-r is sold. Taking into account only the minimum guaranteed price, which is at least $7 a ton, it appears t)h at the beet C:ga,r manufacturer pays the American farmer at least 2.76 cents a pound for suga.r in the beet. The question that these figures raises is How can an American manufacturer ma-nufacturer pay 2.7 6 cents a poaund for ; aw material thai costs his foreign competitor less than one cent? The answer is found in the fact'that when 'tuban sugar is 'brought into the United Uni-ted States the importer must pay , the federal treasury a 'tariff of 1.76 ! acnts a pound. Exclusive of manufact- ' uring costs the home prown and foreign for-eign grown products are just about ' on an equal footing in the United States market, the advantage still being be-ing slightly in favor of the foreigner. If the cost of landing foreign sirgar n the United States were not increased increas-ed 1.7 6 cents a pound by the tariff he manufacturer of beef sinrar wcuild j ave to -buy hii raw material on the i ame basis as his foreign competitor -i- elie go out of htisinesj. In that v.se he could pay only $2.5-1 a ton 1 or been. At that price not a ton of i'."ar beets con 1.1 be grown anywhere 3 a i he country a id all-.fj.3ar con-ium- ' ;d in the United States instead of j i bout 60 per cent of it as at presnt! roH ! b0 .grown from fore'.gn. so 1. I Ate-iv-ti to eonv'nee American B a i mo! 3 that the tariff c of no heielit 1 the: ii .ire mt likely to V. very far Ih the 75 ,000 ,' rov. ?r3 of sugar j et 1 when thev .---cii'pare the pri,;i 'lev :ee?ive which gives them only ' smo't lire fit, wi'h the price paid to 'he Cuban cine rroirer. . S |