It is already demonstrated by the Department of Agriculture that the saccharine matter contained in the sugar beet is in direct proportion to the cool. even temperature in which it is grown and the high latitude that gives the longer period of daylight for the formation of sugar In the growing plant. The National Irrigation Congress. which met at Ogden in 1903. realized the importance of this new industry in conjunction with the rapid development of irrigation in the West by unanimously adopting the following resolution: Whereas the culture of sugar beets is already one of the most Important industries of the arid West. and Whereas our home market now requires the annual Importation of over $100.000.000 worth of this commodity. the most natural product that can be produced under irrigation and shipped in great quantities to our large centers of eastern population . and Wliereas under the national irrigation act the culture of beets will afford our greatest quickmoney crop. and Whereas It is being urged that the United States Congress further stimulate the sugar industry of the Philippine Islands by reducing our tax upon Philippine sugar. by increasing the present limit of 2.500 acres. which Individual corporations can now hold to 25.000 acres. and by the introduction of contract cooly Chinese labor: Therefore. be it Resolved. That we hereby protest against the enactment of any legIslation which will tend to arrest the full development of the Americau sugar industry by extending further concessions to the employers of cheap Asiatic labor . that we are unalterably opposed to the introduction of contract cooly labor wherever the American flag floats. and that legislative agitation or attacks on the sugar interests of this country should cease. to the end that this great industry may develop in common with all our other great Industries. And again. in 1904. at El Paso. Tex.. they unanimously adopted the following: It Is the sense of this congress that the Irrigated lands of the arid and semiarid West are demonstrated to be admirably adapted to the production of beet sugar. and therefore we favor such national legislation as will tend to encourage that industry on such lands.