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Show THE SUGAR PRICE. The action of attorney General Palmer in notifying beet siiiar com-, panies that they are expected to se'.I their pi'oducr at ten cents a pound, seaboard basis, miiht be made the occasion of several interesting legal questions. That an individual sugar producer could be convicted of proti-teering proti-teering for selling iiis ou'put at a price above t -1 1 cents a pound, unh-'-s i: could be shown that he was : ere-by ere-by making ;i n excessive profit on his investment, is certainly open to question. ques-tion. Some companies on account of short crop and high costs, will 'make little or no profit on the ten cent, price. Th,. p r i e stipulated by Department Depart-ment of juslice is exactly the price provlo.nly est a blishefl by voluntary aclion of leading siK;nr companies. The fact that sugar was put on .sale before factories had fairly slart-,"d slart-,"d on the:r slicing campaigns, that j shipment was promised at the earliest earli-est possible moment and that the bastic price voluntarily established was two to five cents a pound le.-s than mi.'ht readily have been obtained obtain-ed offorls practical evidence of desire of beet sguar companies to place their product in hands of consumers at a thoroughly reasonable price. |