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I wish that congress would get out
from under the control of the tobacco
and sugar trusts long enuf to do justice
to the Filipinos. It's the rockiest
shame that Uncle Sam keeps a tariff on
Eilipine exports to this country as
well as to others and thus throttles
trade and enterprise. We're buyin'
sugar in Europe to make up our defic
iency in our own raisin' and all that
would come in from the Filipines
would be but a drop in the bucket but
that don't count with congressmen
who are in the paid employ of the grab
bin' sugar trust. If I was in congress
I'd giv the Filipinos a show for their
lives. I'd encourage their raisin' sugar
and coffee and tobacco by makin' all
their stuff free of duty in this country
and build 'em up a good trade inst of
tearin' it down. If Uncle Sam intends
t© ktep guardeen of the Filipines then
he ought to treat 'em white and if he
can't do this then he ought to let 'em
g«. It would be just as fair to put on
a tariff on Minnesota beet sugar or
Louisiana cane sugar or on Connecticut
tobacco shipped to Philadelphia as to
put a tariff on Filipine products ship
ped to us. It's a downrite shame the
way we treat the Filipinos.
