Word: sugars
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...question of Protection does not enter. (a) Sugar cannot be produced in sufficient quantities in the U. S. (b) The sugar industry already established can be more economically protected by a bounty...
...With free raw material, the absence of a duty on refined sugar would hold in check the Sugar Trust...
...Duties on sugar would furnish the best source. (1) Easily collected; the bulk of sugar preventing direct smug...
...Duties on sugar would render unnecessary an income tax, which would be both difficult of equitable assessment and expensive in collection...
ling. (2) Productive of large income; a duty of one cent would afford an annual revenue of $38,000,000. (3) While mainly a revenue duty, it would also give protection to the domestic production of both cane and beet sugar. (4) Would cause little trouble to the consumers; sugar being to a great extent an article of voluntary consumption...