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PARAGRAPHS 216-219-BEET SUGAR.

Cost of sugar from Apr. 1, 1906, to Mar. 31, 1913-Continued.

LAS ANIMAS FACTORY, LAS ANIMAS, COLO.

[Italic figures denote loss.]

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PARAGRAPHS 216-219-BEET SUGAR.

Cost of sugar from Apr. 1, 1906, to Mar. 31, 1913-Continued.

GRAND ISLAND FACTORY, GRAND ISLAND, NEBR.

[Italic figures denote loss.]

PARAGRAPHS 216-219-BEET SUGAR.

PROTESTS OF CALIFORNIA CITIZENS AGAINST PASSAGE OF FREE SUGAR BILL.

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GENTLEMEN: We, the undersigned citizens of the State of California, respectfully submit our most earnest protest against the passing of a free sugar bill such as was offered by your committee and passed at the last session of the House of Representatives.

It is not our intention to enter into an extended discussion of the tariff situation, but we wish to impress upon you and to bring to your attention more clearly the widespread influence the beet-sugar industry is exerting in the agricultural and the general business conditions of this State.

With our 11 factories now in operation we consume over 1,000,000 tons of sugar beets annually, which requires approximately 110,000 acres of well-cultivated land, giving employment to 25,000 people during the growing and harvesting of the crop. The influence exerted by the culture of beets is not alone that of furnishing employment to a vast amount of labor, but it also tends to raise the standard of the agricultural industry and brings the land into a higher state of cultivation, so that the returns per acre from crops following beets are very materially increased both in quantity and quality.

We wish to call your attention to the growth of this industry, which from 1897 to 1911 has developed from a production of 40,000 tons of beet sugar to 600,000 tons annually, increasing 1,500 per cent in 14 years. In spite of this splendid growth we scarcely produce 8 per cent of the sugar consumed in the United States at the present

time.

This industry has brought into the community prosperity and growth beyond that of most agricultural or manufacturing industries, owing to the great amount of labor required to produce the raw material besides the labor required to manufacture the finished product.

However, in spite of our favorable soil and climate conditions, we can not compete with the cane plantations of the Tropics either in the yield per acre or in the cheap labor which is employed to grow the cane and manufacture the sugar.

The future development and growth of this industry is entirely an agricultural problem and requires the protection which it has enjoyed during the past and which is necessary for its growth and development in the future. With this protection removed and brought into open competition with Asiatic labor and tropical conditions it will unquestionably destroy an industry which has done and promises to do so much toward the development of the agricultural communities of this country. This steady development has been observed by the cane sugar refiners, who have been gradually acquiring large holdings of cane plantations in the foreign cane-growing countries, which plantations will grow less valuable as the beet-sugar industry develops and consequently their desire to crush same.

It is not the intention of this petition to place before you a long list of statistics, but it is the hope and desire of the petitioners to impress upon you the fact that the beetsugar industry is strictly an agricultural industry which not alone develops lands for

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