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Show 1S-GEHT SUGAR PETES Price to Be Advanced Unless Un-less Cuban Crop Is Taken i Over, Rolapp Says. (Chicago Tribune Special Service.) CHICAGO, Sept. 2G. "Fifteen -cent sugar is certain within a few weeks and 25-cent sugar probably by spring unless President Wilson at once authorizes the taking- by the United States sugar equalization equal-ization board of the entire Cuban sugar crop and brings sufficient pressure to force the Cuban government to set a maximum price and make It possible for the United Stales to acquire the sugar. It already is almost too late for such ac- ( Continued on Page Fifteen.) 15-GEHT SUGAR IS I (Continued From Pago One.) f Ion to do much K-M.d, hut tho chances ar the- prc-sldrnt will not urt anyhow. H iKHonrd the r'iu-st of the hukut nv-n of thta country to do It July 11 Iur. lie ! probably will Ignore the ryqurit we are making today thrniiK'. the cjuallxatlon board. The people had better prepare t'i pay the price the Cuban p'Jf;ir iii.-n t:l." This ptatent-nt. nad" by : m.-:iiber f the fi.-.-t ,Suk i r M tin tact ur.- rV a- v.-cia-ttcm, which met h.i t"da, wm submitted sub-mitted to Henry H K'lanp, pr-.-,id.-i.t -t the Bfcioi'la inn and chairman of the hiik'Hr distribution i;ojnnui t.- of tlio iujj.ir j uq'ia!i.fiini body. "I do not cat e to pr. -d!-t what t h j president will or will not do, ;UlioMs'h I am in.-lmed t) beit- he will t.tln- no flrtl.in," Mr, llolapp Bald. "II- has b'-en : too bii.ny wilh oth.r matters. ' " herwi'-. ' 1 bt !if e the a t tiii-'it fium tnarlzes the j Jtltuai ion eia'M 1 b-ri a. wur'd j . Fhortkfre of suK.tr. 'I" ho Cuban fuhi-p'"Ple fuhi-p'"Ple h.i e fun-eil t ,etr p' vt.-ri: in-n t to udopt, a Itunds-off p"!i y and aro holding tlielr product for the h in-tt price they can KeU "As thlnrs ft nnd tht United States ! must bid kxalni-t the world for nariv j 2.0i.A nni) trinb 0f hUKiiVt half of jfM yearly I consumption. Al-o the doinctti'- :;ujp!y 1 from I-ouim.Mft, I'orio liico, Ha w. 11, the j Wftrn coaft Fi;ii.- with a ri:i:a!l amount i from the F'hll ippine.-a 13 far b-iow r.or- j rnal. More than l.snn.nrvn t,,tl8 Gf the prent crtp will be used before the first ! of 1 he year. i "The Lulled States government con- ! trold only bome 4.i.e,i0 tonn now. Only ; the tnklnp over r.f the Cuban Mipr crop and of nuch donif-:t n: r- ;,tr a. may lie j hud can keep th prico from fkyrocket- 1 inp" j The Biijrar men. In an effort to make ! the dated St hies independent of Kurope, j voted to make up a pool of JH'".0'jO at year for the purpose of scientific re- sarrli for the improvement of beet suirr I culture. Kxperts will be sought. 1-v.r j these. Nujrar men admitted "u!:of fi'Mallv" they expected to bid HKamst (Jernian h.-et I Krowcrs or even the ijermnn govern- j inent. |