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Show HE KEEPS US OUT OF SUGAR Alfred W. McCann writing in the New York Globe declares that the Wilson ad- ministration's sugar "blunder" has added fen million ollars d'jrectly to the cost of ljving for the American people. The Su- ar Equalisation board could have bought le Cuban sugar crop of four million tons iftjUt 61. cents per pound last August. Rres-Jment Rres-Jment Wilsoh withheld his approval of the mintage'. " Fmallythe Guba'ns swiftidr'ftw r-lr tL, i i -v the n'fer and sold the sugar in Europe ui ! an advanced price. Instead a policy of i boat ting by the attorney general aboi.t! reducing the cost of living was adopted, while living costs went upward. The lid has been taken off, and the Louisiana sugar su-gar planter has baen permitted to charge 17 cents a pund. When the other sugar' producers saw this happening they joined in the carnaval of profiteering. National Nation-al Republican. ft m te |