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Show THE PRICE OF SUGAR. e Everybody is discussing the price of sugar and asking why the government fails to act in controlling the price. r. During the Avar the severest criticism of the administration grew )ut of the fact that the government had fixed the price of sugar, .vjieat and flour. r Now the men who were loudest in condemning the paternalism ) the war period have changed -front and are insisting on arbitral lotion. i On Saturday, in congress, Senator Capper joined in demanding j ;hat the government do something to hold down prices. He was )ile of the men who protested against the regulating of prices in war ;imes. t Although Senator Capper is inconsistent, his present plea has some merit. He indulges in this striking statement: Z "Wall Street's melon patches are warmed by the sun of privi-j privi-j ege, fertilized by the perspiration of labor and watered by the tears d poverty." Well said, but why is Senator Capper neglecting his duty as a egislator? Why is he not framing a law to compel a cure for these ivils? If Attorney General Palmer is not sufficiently resourceful in ipplying a remedy, why should Senator Capper fail to have congress specially instruct the attorney general and give him unmistakable oower and authority? Something should be done to prevent the Drice of sugar, made last fall and winter at 8 and 9 cents a pound oeing retailed at 23 cents a pound. ' Careful thinkers when called on to express an opinion on this j question of. price control declare there are elements of danger in an ;,xtreme interference with business; that too much government pater-1 aalism makes for endless upset, and they point to the fact that after ' ill the people have the power to keep down these abuses. They cite ,he case of the price of clothing. No sooner had the people started a sampaign to wear overalls and old clethes, than the quotations of! rien's suits dropped $5 to $20. ' When any article of common use gets too high, the consumers j mould turn to a substitute. In San Francisco, when butter and eggs became too high the ' lousewives formed a mion and struck. That is to say they agreed j lot to use butter and eggs until those necessities were reduced in ' Drice. "Within two weeks the cost of a pound of butter and a dozen )f eggs was cuf in two. To.o often the people ask protection when Siey have thepower to protect themselves. ! Six months of real economy would do more to take the countrv int of the upset of the high cost of living than nil the legislation nd local prosecution that wise heads might put in fprce , |