The evening world., 1921-01-20

'uunds makes a trifle Of S22AOO,OOO
hich the sugar barons will pick up
IN the side--in the event OF the pas
ssge q the Fordncy bill.
PALMER's MISTAKE IN HELPING
LOUISIANA GROWERS.
The attitude Of the Administration
has been slngularly stupid on sugar.
For instance, when Attorney General
Palmer ruled that consumers in the
southern territory served by the
Louisiana planters should pay twice
rs much for their sugar an consumers
un the Atlantic Seaboard, the retail
I,rice Of sugar in Atlanta, Ga, scared
10 forty-two cents a pound and It was
rdOubtedly higher in smaller COM
.unlties. New Workers were getting
sugar then at twenty-threo cents q
pound retail.
on the 10th OF last October Il was
ldite apparent to everybody in the
sugar business that the market was
uutted with sugar beyond the point
of immediate absorption. In other
words, the supply was away ahead
ut tho demand. There started from
Washington TO New York about that
date the "Flying Squadron" Of the
department Of Justice 10 expose food
prohteers in the metropolis. With
the squadron" was John B. Floyd,
who had the title OF statlstician. Mr..
Floyd. on reaching New York, said:
'yThe people Of the United states
win pass through another period OF
short supply OF sugar before the end
Of the year and in the early months
Of 1891, have no doubt"
We are now in the early months Of
1871 and the surplus supply Of sugar
IN the country amounts 20 1,25O,OO0
tons despite the predictions Of a
shortage by statistician on tho Gov
ernment payroll Perhaps tho ao-
curacy OF this prediction explains
Why all inquiries about the beet sugar
industry which reach the Agricultural
Department are turned over to Truv
man G. Parker who Is very we'll
known in Washington. Mr.. Parker
Is a lobbyist for the beet sugar In
terests. The authority for this comes
from men in the sugar industry
c. o. p. LOBBY IN HURRY TO
PASS BILL.
Senator Penrose's declaration to
the Senate yesterday that he intends
70 hurry the passage Of the Fordney
Emergency Tariff Bill indicates that
the men back Of the measure want
TO rush 1t through before the people
have a chance to learn what 1t Is all
about. The Evening Worlds expose
OF the real motive of the measure
the reimbursement of the sugar in
terests and their allied financial in
stitutions-has already set up some
formidable hurdles in the path Of
tie rush programme. although The
Evening World correspondent is in
formed that a canvass has been made,
and that Representative Fordney and
Senators Gay, Smoot and Penrose
believe they have the votes to put
the bill over.
Their hopes lie in the fact that
they have taken care Of every Tgri-
cultural and stock raising interest
that has suffered. business losses.
The bill looks out for the wheat
grower, the tobacco grower, the cot
tnn grower, the frozen'meat industry,
the butter and egg Industry, and so
on. II touches the interests of every
member of Congress having an agri-
cultural constituency To these is
held out the implied threat that II
they oppose the sugar amendment
the amendment in which they are
most vitality Interested is in danger
The word has been passed that the
bill will have 90 go through in ia
entirety
The original Fordney Bill has beer
passed by The House. But after 1
reached the Senate Committee ol
Finance amendments were tacket
onto IT, Seven OF these amendment
were added last saturday.
The trickery underlying tho bill
is shown by a statement give
out to the Washington CORE
spondents on Saturday that IN
Increase on sugar would amour
10 anly 2B3 per hundred pound
untll tho retail price reaches
cents a pound The Evening Worl
has shown that the incrcabo to l
passed along TO the consume
amounts TO four cents a pound an
that the provision that the retail priC
shall not c.-g-d 10 cents a pound
Of no value because 1t Is made
apply to a condition that will not q
ist