Speech #730189186

Indiana. and Wisconsin which brought the farmers a cash return in excess of production costs. Thus. by reason of our having a beetsugar industry. 241.500 acres of land. which otherwise would have gone into the production of nonprofitable or surplus crops. were devoted to the production of a. profitable and nonsurplus crop. As a result of the reduction in the amount of beet sugar the American producers are to be permitted to market under the present quota system. thousands of farmers will be denied an opportunity to engage in sugarbeet culture. tens of thousands of acres of land will have to go into the production of surplus and nonprofitable crops. and several of our beetsugar factories will stand idle. Let us not forget that every idle beetsugar factory will stand as a monument to the theory that the rights of remote tropical labor in foreign countries supersede the rights of the American farmers. Let me remind you that a day of accounting will come. a day when the American farmers. when the American people. will demand to know why an American industry which does not contribute to the production of surplus crops should be sacrificed for the benefit of foreign canesugar producers and a handful of American investors in foreign countries.