People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1896 — Sugar Growers Seek Protection. [ARTICLE]

Sugar Growers Seek Protection.

Washington, April 1. —Representatives of the sugar-growing interests of the country made an appeal Tuesday to the house ways and means committee for legislation to protect them against the advantages given to the German producers by the German export bounties. They asserted that the Germans are taking advantage of the weakening of Cuban competition, becau.se of the war, to crush the industry in America, and complained bitterly of the failure of the treasury officials to pay the bounties authorized by the last congress.