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Show Bj We learn from superintendent Ar- B thur of Cedar Co-op that the price B Of coal oil is higher than it has been, B and that 40 cents per gallon will be B charged in the the stores for it who B tberbought by the gallon or in five B gallon lots, as it can not be afforded B (or less. This is another instance B. of the evils of the profit system. Of K course the local merchant has to m charge in proportion to that which H fifrhae to pay, and in the case of H coal oil barely saves himself; and H this is also the case with wholesale H sate dealers to a great extent, but W the company who owns the oil wells H and the refiners, have no strings on I them, except the law of supply and H demand, and in the case of oil refin. I --.Jnfc thc Standard Oil company lias I "the situation so well in hand that it 'can control thc supply, till it brings ' the demand to such shape as it do sires. There never was a timer in '. the history of kerosene when the ! raw or unrefined article was so abun-! abun-! daut as it is.at'the present time; and ! yet with oil Wells, showing up in ', every direction :the price of the article arti-cle goes .higher:; and this for the purpose of putting more money in the overilowinir coffers of the company com-pany that'hasitshands on thc throats of the people. And there is no limit to the length to which robbery may be carried 'under our present law of trade. A great outcry has been raised throughout the land against the trusts, but the-effect is thc same to the man who has to "stand and deliver" whetherhc be held up by one robber or by a dozen, if he is compelled to give up his money. The principle of co operation has done much to cheapen commodities commod-ities to the consumer and protect him from the rapacity of the dealer whose sole aim is that of profit, but it will take a still wider application of the doctrine than has yet been made, to cure such evils as the one under consideration. |