Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-07-30

cannot charge more than cents an.
he wholesaler more than o. cents a
hundred for handling It.
IF carload Of sugar, after il leaves
the Wholesalers, cost but s925 a hun.
dfed, and it is eventually sold for $15
a hundred huge profits. or an un.
earned increment, results. ami it ia
easy to see that the consumer paws
profits to several individuals who
gamble on the market and reap big
profits at the cost of the consumer"
The Consumer Pays.
The consumer pays. ana this burden
Falls heaviest upon the shoulders ~
The WGrkingman. whose wages have
not Increased in any proportion 70 the
present cost of foodstuffs. Something
has got to be done and something
should be done in Ottawa 10 inyosti.
gate this profteering on the local PEG.
pie by big wholesale commission
houses in Chicago And there is re-.
dress.
One grocer is inclined to fix part of
the blame on the La Sale street
brokers in Chicago. They are holding
the sugar To create the demand and
/ reap large profits. Someone is hoard.
ing M sugar and when If is eventually
let loose there will be big drop in
prices and someone will be holding
he bag filed with air
The people of Ottawa do not have
10 put mp with these high prices. for
Che wholesale grocers and others are
till selling goods under license of the
federal food administration and that
'rotiteering could be stopped by re,
course to that organization, which still
has the power to revoke licenses.
The head Of the sugar oQualiza ion
board said that pOrftoerine dealers, il
reported, may suffer revocation of
their licenses, for they are still under
the control of the federal food admin
j-tration, which will not cease to func-
zion until the senate signs the peace
treaty.
The war department has sold g..
o"ooo0 pounds Of refined sugar to the
United States sugar equalization
board, who declare that there is an
abundance Of raw sugar in the conn
try. and thai retail prices should not
exceed II cents a pound
Now. the city has the right TO have
p committee which will investigate the
hi"h prices and see to il that the pub
lie here is not overcharged because Of
the proiitecring Of Chicago brokers
and large wholesale houses Such p
committee should be formed, for this
city at present is at the mercy of the
rrOfteere
In Chicago such committee was
formed and as n result of investica.
lions and reports of prices, the II c..
Of l.. is not so high in the big city.
What can be done in Chicago can be
done in Ottawa. So let's have all tho
protection we can get from these capt
taistic profteers.
The Just Price League of Joliet. with
FlNiN IIt Il'tlH fiIlbll'hIt Stni TtSDllI-
items % President Wilson. Governor
Lowden and to Congress. stating tho
great unrest" was due to the high
cost of living and excessive profiteor-
ing
At a nearby wholesale house II was
stated this morning that this firm had
no sugar TO sell and hadn't had any
for some little time. The retail mer.
chants here can buy sugar only in a
small quantity at the present time.
and sometimes ii is hard to get any
at all.
Thus since the government reports
plenty Of sugar for the people, there
is plenty, and somebody is boarding
sugar and the middlemon are making
huge profits in their game Of proiiteer
ing
Whens the thing to stop? Ger
tainly it can't last long if The pcorlo
wake mp and demand an Investigation