Show politics prices and piffle editor record when 11 T barnum openly declared that the american public liked to bo be humbugger humbugged hum lium bugged and the old time confidence man said there was a sucker born every minute their statements were accepted by most people as merely good natured ridicule utterly impersonal of 0 course arid and only applying to the other tellow fellow some other town or community not to bo ba taken as applying to the hearer nor the reader just a joke to be smiled at and to make those present wonder it if the statement could possibly be true ot of any place or any class of people but things liale haie changed since the tha old showman and the gambler died and their statements so jocularly made have proven so conservative palpably truthful as to be universally 1 accepted by mankind as axioms i worthy orthy of a place in the col copybooks along with honesty is the best policy be good and you will be ba happy etc As a people we have progressed along the line indicated ne are no longer contented with mere humbug ging arid and film flamming short chang ing and plain ordinary bounce games we are dissatisfied unless we are absolutely sol sure that we ve are being robbed of our rights and our money the average citizen will still complain it held up at the muzzle of a six shooter or if beaten up by a sand bag or piece ot of lead pipe in the hands of an over zealous thug but even these complaints will doubtless grow less as we gradually become accustomed cus tomed to going without food and clothing and the other few necessaries of life to which we had become foolishly attached and in the new dispensation the strong arm system will be as much in vogue as Is profiteering fite ering at the present time in england some two centuries since boarders hoar ders of food tor for speculation with ith intent to gouge the chason 11 11 13 sumer by exorbitant prices were termed forestallers forest allers and the courts seemed rather to enjoy sending them to the gallows we are of course much more enlightened now and yet you in may ay once in awhile hear some old fossil say they did things better in ia those days I 1 during the past winter eastern people have been paying from 24 to 30 cents per pound tor for sugar while we of the west est have been paying from 13 to IS cents pretty soft tor for us was it not yesterday however I 1 tried to purchase 25 lbs ibs ot of sugar and the grocer did not have it to sell why well I 1 do not know but yankee like am going to make a guess it is because the sugar barons of the inter moun tain district have decided that tile the time is ripe for a killing in sugar tor for that reason they have gradually cur curtailed shipments to the retailer I 1 until at present very little of tile the commodity remains in the hands ot of the small merchant pr the consumer since the the first arst of the year the sugar factories have been moving heaven and earth to get the beet raising farmers signed up on the contracts tor for the crop of 1920 and the only reason we have been getting our sugar tor for less than eastern prices Is because until now the sugar barons continued on oa pace four |