Show A Starch Trust The latest announcement in the trust line is to thoeffect that a British syndicate has obtained control of all the starch factories fac-tories in the country It is authoritative announced that tho Gilbert 1 Sleeper starch works at Des Moines have sold out to the syndicate and that these factories will in all probability be closed perman ently The prices paid for these two plants aggregated 5600000 What the syndicate proposes to do is of course unknown but consumers need not lie awake nights antic Ipating reductions in the price of starch The one great purpose of all trusts is to limit production and increase prolits and nothing different is to be expected in the present instance Sweet are trusts and < almighty is British capital t |