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Show UTAH STATEjJSSCCIAia The Reason For A Sugar Tariff The United States consumes 12 times as much sugar, per capita, as It did a century ago, says United States Beet Sugar Association. In 1828 the average aver-age was 8.8 pounds; people used molasses, mol-asses, maple sugar, or nothing. Today the average is 107 pounds. It would have been impossible tc cripple America, if all the sugar imports im-ports had been held up, 100 years ago; today it would be a national calamity. The beet sugar industry supports more than a million people, part or all the time; and it is definite insurance against a foreign sugar monopoly. Our domestic sugar industry depends upon a reasonable tariff to save it from destruction des-truction by cheap labor, foreign competition. |