Show prices piffle and politics continued arom pace one ODO did not dare to raise the who wholesale lesal 0 price until the contracts tor for th this I 1 a year were secured had the price been raised to 25 cents wholesale before the contracts were signed the farmers would of course have lave demanded a price tor for their beets based upon the value of 0 the sugar to be produced as it now low is tile the contracts were secured on oil a basis of about 12 12 1 2 cents wholesale price ani aim with till the contracts safely in the a trong strong bo boxes x es of the sugar men the farmer can kick the consumer howl b hut the price of granulated sugar will be fixed in accordance with the rapacity of the owners of the factories so the ladies need not be surprised it when they need sugar to can their fruit this season they find the price 28 to 30 cents per pound nor need they blame the local merchant lie he is lust just as ai helpless in the matter mailer as themselves let them all put the alm blame squarely where hr it belo begones belones on the shoulders of the present scholastic visionary impractical and inefficient administration of woodrow wilson allson who twice t arned down the I 1 I 1 proposal of the food commission to purchase the entire sugar crop of cuba offered to us at the price of 6 12 1 2 cents per pound lor for raw sugar which would mean a retail price ot of granulated sugar 0 of 11 cents per pound but tile the sugar planters and manufacturers rs of 0 louisiana texas and other democratic states slates producing cane sugar claimed they had a short crop that they could not atford afford to produce raw sugar at the prevailing price of 0 S 8 12 1 2 cents so they graciously granted permission by the administration to advance the price ot of raw sugar to 17 cents per pound which accounts tor for the high price of sugar ever since all ovar over the eastern part of the U S and now in closing this article a query arises it if a merchant mei chant buys potatoes in oct at per ewt and sells them in april for per ewt is it profiteering it if the sugar companies produce at a basis of 12 1 2 cents per pound and fix the wholesale price at 25 cents is it profiteering and it if both are legitimate what in the name of hoover is profiteering and ot of what possible use are investigations 11 S park city utah april 29 1920 |