We expect a production of sugar aggregating a value of $10.000.000 during the year 1903. The soil of the arid West has proven eminently adapted to the production of beet sugar. every year witnessing an increase in saccharine matter and a greater purity of the product. Considering. then. that according to the report of the Bureau of Statistics of the Treasury Department. the imports from foreign countries for 1901 amounted to 4.500 000000 of pounds of sugar. valued at $115.00.C90. of which more than 4.000.@06.0 pounds. or fully 85per cent. came from the Tropics. where it was produced by "coolie" labor. and the remainder from the bountyfed fields and factories of Europe. we beg to point out that our people should not he deprived of this opportunity to employ theft labor and to dispose of their pro duct within their own markets. When it is known that Cuba imported into the United Stales during 1901 1.2 00.009 pounds. or fully 30 per cent of the cane sugar which entered our ports. deriing therefrom an estimated revenue of over $30.000.900. it may appear reasonable that the people of the West should he allowed an eaual chance with them. and that is what the difference in labor in Cuba and Colorado. added to the tariff. amounts to. The beetsugar industry of Europe is being fostered by the Government.