Show FACTS pACTS WANTED Since Senator Smoot made his famous D r barge hai ge that the retailers of oC the country were wen hogging all the fat there hat has hast been a loud and Insistent demand for a aI t I showdown It Is Ii generally known that I I I A Prices price are fixed for the retailer on a anum number num of articles and an that If he be shades shad B the price he ia is no looker ocer er allowed to handle the goods While White the tariff question Is up and these charges have I been made the facts should be given I 4 to the public The only competition so JO far as the consumer eol Umer is concerned ta 18 be between bet tween t I w n the retailers and aad If K they are ron roa ronI I I bers hers Mr r Smoot and his fellow mem mom hers bees be of the finance committee i 4 furnish the proof proofs The m Newt News Xe I rails attention to the existing condition of nr If things in a timely article and calls calla I fr for the facts mete There is ii no ron reason why I congress should hould not supply the tae infer Information ft 1 mation matlon desired by the Michigan paper tL which says ys among other things I Trusts have considerable Influence upon the prices of certain lines or of s Take meats as alii an ex ox example example ample There was wu a 8 time when the Ute thernmon Common people could depend d pend on bay hav having ba bai c i 7 ing In the spring cheap veal voni eal and andI I lamb Iamb Tbt market mark t was flooded with thIs kind of ot food and prices dropped I I i until it was possible for tor the ordinary family to indulge for several weeks w in these luxuries 8 Today Toda both beth lamb Iamb and veal are practically outside the reach of or the masses The carcasses are PUt pui in cold storage not to t t appear until th UK supply has diminished and then they will be sold only for tor a price that will give glye large age profits profit Thus lamb Iamb and anti veal have disappeared from the tables of or the tho workingmen The retail butcher is powerless he be is compelled to stand standstill standstill still and see the cattle catt Kings Ings and aad cold storage speculators ra run rin rim the market to suit themselves There would be no 00 harm ha in putting meat in cold storage if the public were only assured of it appearing later at a reasonable price but the cold storage proposition is 18 in the nature of ofa ofa ofa a monopoly and in this Instance at least It does doea net not conserve public wet wel farA far when it prevents consumers rs ob oh obtaining taming cheap meat at least once In year Let congress gather the Information mation matlon that tbt will show the cost or pro of all kinds of goods from the time the raw raw material is marketed until the finished product Is In the hands of the consumer anti and It will be doing oln a public service Doubtless there would be some sur prices if It congress should gather the figures and make them but as asBen asBen asBen Ben Franklin observed honesty is the best policy polley and we might add that only onty the rascal ra cal is hurt by the truth Give us the facts fads |