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...left Cuba with a huge sugar surplus, brought her producers such hardships that they sold their product as low as ⅝? a Ib. (in 1932). But even with a 2? a lb. duty the costly beet sugar industry could not make a profit out of 3? sugar. Hawaii. Puerto Rico and the Philippines, well inside the tariff, could. They expanded their output immensely, until beet sugar producers realized that sooner or later the islands would take the U. S. market away from them. Thus while U. S. consumers were paying some $250,000,000 a year extra for sugar...
...Puerto Rico Quota (tons) 821,000 1932-33 (tons...
...with what was given her. The Philippines, about to be given their freedom, were in more or less the same predicament, but were more liberally treated to induce them to accept freedom. The others began at once to wrangle. Movements for Statehood took life in both Hawaii and Puerto Rico (see p. 14) as one means of getting a vote in Congress and lobbying for bigger quotas. The beet industry alone was in a position to wrangle at once. When the Jones-Costigan bill was passed by the House three weeks ago, its quota had been raised from...
Senator Copeland of New York (Manhattan has a large Puerto Rican population) declared: ''To overlook the obligations we owe to Puerto Rico and its citizens is something I cannot approve. The act will add at least 200 million dollars a year to the cost of sugar. ... In short. we ruthlessly abandon Puerto Rico and dig into our pocketbooks for the beet sugar farmers...
...Puerto Rican Senate last week adopted (11-to-3) a House resolution which made territorial history. For the first time the insular legislature petitioned the Congress in Washington to call a constitutional convention for the admission of Puerto Rico to the Union as the 49th State. The three opponents of the resolution were Liberals who demanded not Statehood but Independence. The argument for Statehood: it would insure peace and plenty. The argument against: it would mean economic ruin and degrade Puerto Rico's "national soul...