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Show PROSECUTE SWISS FOOD SPECULATORS' Spe'lnl Cablo to The Tribune. H Kit NO, July Tho Swifls govern- ment finds itself compelled to tako drastic measures against the specula- , tors and usurers who fire driving food prices to an cxorbitnnt height. A number num-ber of these harpies, many of whom aro foreigners, have already linen arrested . and will be mercilessly prueeuled. On market May the speculators meet the fnnners outside oC the tuwns and dijv the loads of all wagons as cheaply as' possible. With tho aid of agent they then tiring the products to market and seLl thern at a profit of a hundred per rent or more. Jf tho grocers and vegetable ami butter and egg dealers, or the housewives refuse, to pay tho enormous prices demanded by the specula specu-la tnrs all supplies lnu ppenr from tho market ot once, only to bp offered fit still hit: her prices on the following d;iy. (Inn of the Arrested spe u la t ors h:i confeed t hnt he made more thun $l.i,0()0 by this method during the ;t?t fourteen months. Three or four nf tho speen I at ors are, said to have become millionn ires. |