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Show AjLlUlt, NOT PRODUC-BJtS PRODUC-BJtS RESPONSH3LE WeslUngtln, FctrS Strong Intimation Inti-mation 'jhat Attorney General Palmer Pal-mer is lax In jSbt'pMUlng n' stop to r- -. thaamtrag.eoMtlBee which tho public pub-lic is lining eesiliiiiteil to pay tor sugar was glvct"liva"tncf speech on the sugar situation In the Senate by Senator Smoot of Utah. Senator Smoot declared there was no excuse for the present exhorbltaat ( prices, and ho mado a statement to refute charges that tho beet sugar prodee-ere prodee-ere are holding back their product from the. market. ., Oimhe contrary. haTsaleXsther had sold, a, larger perj rentage of thtlr crop' than ever before. be-fore. at this time of the-ycar. ''There seems to be a persistent propaganda going' on through tho United States," said Senator "Smoot, "to convince the American consumers consum-ers of sugar that tho cause of high price of sugar la on account of the beet sugar producers holding back their productfrom, th'd' market. They havo sold 8 5' per. cent of tho whole nroductlon for tho year 1919-20. It proaucuoa ior iuu jvai uu-.u. t has been delivered and if it Is -being hoafiTed the Attorney General of the United States ough't to'take'ac-ijon to'take'ac-ijon against,; th profiteers and stop the'unJusUflftjio' price that Is being charged to the people of the United tSates for sugar." ' ' ,sJeBa,tor Smoot did ftot fq Into the fact that while Attorney General Pal-' raer Is talking tybpuf what he lias done to reduce the' cost of Hying su-' gar Is soaring almost to points beyond be-yond bcllof. Sharp protests from consumers who nro suffering from tho almost unheard of prices of sugar su-gar aro reaching tho Department of JuBtlcu as woll as mombors of Congress. |