Show COL GOL BOll EXPRESSES VIEWS says high cost of living Is due more or less to the middleman at last we have put our finger on h lis man most responsible for the high ost of living says weekly Is name Is 1 middleman in an in omal ormal talk to some Pena pennsylvania sylvan ta rangers colonel roosevelt bald said 1 11 I amot object in tho the least to paying note for something if it I 1 am paying nore more to the farmer and the laborer ahat bat I 1 object to la Is paying profits to three persons who bland stand bet weeti no me and the tho worker no one would ay that all middlemen should be eliminated or that all the for high prices should be placed upon their shoulders A largo large per pe 1 those who simply add to the ost of living could be dispensed with in looking through a wholesale man establishment recently the writer took up a ladys suit marked 16 6 75 and was surprised to learn that hie this licit would sell at retail tor for 15 another handsome suit marked at sit I 1 37 7 so 60 woul 3 bring at re mil all 75 when there Is auch such a disparity between wholesale and retail prices the public pays too much to tho the middleman in the case of farm products aa as recent investigations have ahon the disparity Is even reater greater |