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Show THE SUGAR SCANDAL. In flaming headlines we are informed that' the "sugar probe scandal has been exposed." The idea conveyed is that the whole dis-Hj dis-Hj (Jiosure is nothing more than political rottenness. "Well, suppose some one man or group of men seeking to take advantage of the scandal, was disposed to make the most of the unjustifiablcjump in sugar, would that lessen the degree of of-fending of-fending of tliosc wjo have boosted the price until poor people are Unable to obtain sugar? Politicians will be politicians so long as the game affords op-portiinity op-portiinity for personal gain and advancement, but the tricks of tho men in polities serve neither to prove or disprove that in the pyra-miding pyra-miding of the price of sugar a serious wrong was. not committed against the public. The sugar companies should insist on a full investigation to de-termme de-termme who are the profiteers. The-, public is waiting -for an answer.' |