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A Sugar Growers Protest and Trade Debate
Beet sugar growers at the Ogden irrigation congress opposed any move to admit cheap Asiatic labor to the Philippines for cane sugar and warned it would harm American sugar industry protection. They noted Cuba and Hawaii impacts, estimated beet crop production and US consumption, and criticized duties as a hidden bounty while citing regional outputs in Michigan California Colorado Utah and Nebraska.
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Ogden
Philippines
United States
Hawaiian Islands
Philippine Islands
Hawaii
Cuba
Louisiana
Messrs. Willet & Gray
Sugar Trade Journal
Michigan
California
Colorado
Utah
Nebraska
Boston Herald