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Show t9J GET AT THE ROOT OK THE EVIL A CCORDING to the daily papers, II. S. Food Comtnissioner Hoover has announced that the price of sugar must be reduced to the consumer to the extent of l'j cents per pound, this price to be effective at certain trading centers affected by the importation of sugar from the outside, but as heretofore, the sections in the west where the sugar is produced will continue to pay as much more than they do at these centers, as it would cost to transport the sugar we make and ship there, back to our own state. This is a little plum that the western sugar magnates guard scrupu- i lously, and which they will hold onto just as long as possible. It is probable that the visit of a number of the leading lights in the sugar industry to Washington Washing-ton recently had to do with this feature of the case. . If there is any justice or reason in the Government Govern-ment regulation of food prices, the manufacturers of beet sugar will be compelled to sell their product at home for at least as low a price as they receive for it after transporting it half way across the continent. |