These decisions are made largely by the Sugar Division of the Department of Agriculture here in Washington. which is administered by a statistician from New York. and which. I understand. contains not one farmer in the Washington office. The administration has left us with the choice of extending the present law. which has left prices too low. and which gives foreign producers more of the American market than it gives the entire western United States. or of letting the present law expire. which would leave us with a reduced tariff and no quota restrictions whatever. This would place the domesticsugar producer at the mercy of foreign imports without the tariff protection necessary to preserve our institutions and to protect American labor. At the present time there are countless thousands of acres in the West on which crops of which we have a surplus are being raised.
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