Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-11-14
SUGAR SCARS ABOVE
j. S. LIMIT; REACHES
RECORD PRICE 1876.
APPEAL TO ATTORNEY GENERAL
TO STOP INITIATION or PRICE /
AS CSC POINT LOOMS A NEAR
FUTURE POSSIBILITY.

l9c retail in Chicago yesterday
may go to 26c unless Congress take
a hand.
The federal fair price committee
gave up an attempt to keep il within
the prescribed bounds by striking /
from the fair price list The price, i
was assumed, now will have 10 be reg
ulated only by the amount the Goa
Sumer is able to pay.
The fair price committee declined
to take the respon 5lbilty, itS mem
bers said. and, by striking it from
their list, threw ii back under the Iur
isdiction OF the attorney general
100000 Tons Stored.
1t tx known more than 40. 600 tons
OF sugar is stored in warehouses in
Cuba and the reason given is that the
government lacks adequate tralspor-
tation facilities to BRING it TO the
United States.
The fair price committee blames
the sugar retiners for the situation.
They claim different prices We're al
lowed refiners in various localities
and because OF this shipments We're
diverted or refused.
An appeal was made to the attorney
general at Washington for some sort
of Legislation that would clarity the
situation and regulations that would
restrain jObbers, spectators and
profiteers from getting a grip Oh the
available supply.
Resell Many Times.
According to the present situation
there is nothing that Will prevent
j0bbers from buying sugar at 10, II
or II cents pound from the reiiner
and selling it to another johber at the
fixed profit price of "a of cent
pound.
The second jobber can then sell II
for "a of a cent profit to another JOB
Der. This process can be repeated
until the same amount OF sugar is
passed about between any number CT
jobbers until the price gets as high
as the consumer can stand
Each iobber or profiteer can take
llI' Bl oLil VI o-t q tt'it anu pass IL oil.
Beside the profit that can be taken
by any number Of jobbers VINO may
get in on" sugar deal, the consumer
will have to stand for fixed profit
OF ! IL cents a pound from the re-
taller. The retailers are at the mercy
of the iohbers, they say
Boycott Is Charged.
Assistant District Attorney Robert
A. Milroy arrived in Washington yes
terday to confer with Attorney Gen
eral Palmer and the national food ad
on the Chicago situation.
Mr., Milroy has evidence that chi
cago has been under a boycott by
southern sugar refiners and that the
normal supply expected from Louis /
lana has been diverted.
Members OF the fair price commit /
tee had no comment to make on the /
situation other than a prepared state /
ment given cut by Chairman Sprague
The statement follows.
The sugar situation at the present
time is very much involved, and this
statement is given out to attempt TO
clarity it,
On October ~ the attorney general
fixed price for all beet sugar retin-
ers. as this part OF the country was
supposed to be supplied entirely by
them. at II cents f. o. b. seaboard. /
cash less per cent, or a price to the
Jobbers OF about 10 l-Zcents
On this basis. and with the beet
sugar price fixed by the federal au-
thCrities over the entire country, it /
would have been comparatively sim
pie matter to establish fair prices for
both jobber and retailer But some
different prices We're made by beet /
sugar retiners from different localities |
and southern sugars, when were not I
supposed TO come onto these markets, /
were offered and shipped here.
at is fair to say that since the /
opening OF the beet sugar renning |
season results of the retiners' opera
tons have demonstrated that ~ cents |
in some sections is not a fair price TOR
them and with this fact demonstrated T
attempts are being made by colter- .
ences of the Department or Justice I
and the beet sugar retiners to estaD- I
ish definitely fair price for all con I
cerned, which when made Will be
rigidly enforced over the entire cou1- /
Try.
Cannot Fix Fair Prices.
This makes the situation such that I
At the present time no fair price can /
be made for the jobber or the retail
or However the margin OF profit
hat may be added as a maximum |
still remains. 81 cent per pound for
obber and - cents per pound TOR
'etailer. and all jobbers and retailers |
will be called upon to justify their
prices on this basis
The shortage OF sugar in this mar
iet Is not due to the establishment or
air prices in this state and city 10 /
my extent, the shortage being due |
to the car shortage, and the |
act that from the present beet crop /
ess sugar is being obtained by the re
iner"