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Show o Iii n dobato which took plnco recently re-cently beroro thu Nnt(onnl Civic Fed-oration,4 Fed-oration,4 ono of tho speakers who nt-temped nt-temped to justify price-cutting made the statement thnt It wns qulto Impossible Im-possible to deceive tho public in the matter of values, snys nn exchange. Strnngo ns it may seem, tho statement state-ment wont unchallenged. Tho vnluo of a ynrd of silk does not depend upon up-on the price for which It Is sold, but upon tho quantity of renl silk it con-tnlns, con-tnlns, nnd no one but nn expert can toll thnt. Just recently thero np-po.fred np-po.fred In tho newspaper mi nrtlcle, describing how a certain "Imported" silk had been sold at $3.50 a ynrd. An examination by experts allowed that it contained so llttlo silk that It could hnvo been Bold for seventy-five seventy-five cents n ynrd and returned a very satisfactory profit. The merchant mer-chant could have cut the prlco of p.50 several times over without losing los-ing nny money on the deal, and tho foolish public woifld doubtlesB lmvo cougrnttilated Itself on having secured secur-ed n renl "bargain." |