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product of the highly protected and bounty-fostered beet-sugar industry of Europe, 

 or of the cane-sugar industry of the cheap-labor countries of Africa and the east. 



2. To put into the pockets of the American people the $100,000,000 now sent 

 abroad annually for imported sugar one billion dollars every ten years. A sum 

 which within a dozen years or so may be $200,000,000 annually. 



3. To show the American people that this upbuilding of what is destined to be 

 one of the greatest of American industries and one of the most beneficent to American 

 agriculture, can be done without injustice to others and without unduly advancing 

 prices to consumers, but so that the enormous sums now sent out of the country every 

 year may be distributed among our own farmers and others engaged in cultivating 

 the thousands of acres of sugar beets and cane, and in operating the hundreds of 

 enormous factories required to supply the people of the United States with sugar. 



4. These results to be aided by (1) appropriate tariff legislation to off set foreign 

 export bounties and to afford reasonable protection against foreign competition ; and 

 (2) by whatever encouragement may be offered by the respective states and by the 

 localities that desire to secure sugar factories. 



5. In addition to these objects, the American Sugar Growers' Society, through its 

 local and state organizations, will encourage farmers to become experts in beet cul- 

 ture, will act as a medium through which capitalists and others who wish to start fac- 

 tories may reach localities that want factories, and will in every proper, reasonable 

 and legitimate way do all in its power to promote the best development of our domes- 

 tic sugar industry. The Society will resist and try to prevent or circumvent any 

 unjust action toward the industry that may be attempted by the sugar trust, and will 

 do its utmost to secure for the growers of beets and cane the fullest measure of what- 

 ever help may be extended to the industry by state or nation. 



ITS PLAN OF WORK. 



This is a non-secret, non-partisan, and strictly businesslike organization to carry 

 out the above objects. 



It consists of national, state, congress, district and local societies. The national 

 or American Sugar Growers' Society has general supervision of the movement and 

 the work of organization. State societies afford a means of bringing together repre- 

 sentatives from local and district societies for mutual benefit and to attend to state 

 matters affecting the sugar industry. The local society is the unit, and it may cover 

 one or more townships or a whole county, provided that any question over conflicting 

 jurisdiction be settled by the national office. The local society is the medium for 

 active work in legislation, in experiments in the culture of beets or cane, in dissemi- 

 nating information, in securing factories, etc. Each local society is entitled to one 

 delegate for every five members in making up the district societies, whose territory is 

 bounded by the limits of the United States congress district. The special purpose of 

 the congressional district society is to enlighten your member of congress upon this 

 subject, also both United States senators from your state, and to make them 

 acquainted with your wants and demands, to the end that they may spare no effort 



