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Show is protesting and offering all sorts of possible and impossible remedies. According to The monthly letter of :he Alexander Hamilton institute, the j logical sequence flowing from high j prices is as follows: j 1. -High- commodity prices require large loans. The loanable funds ot the banks being reduced, money rates arc increased. As the shortage of funds becomes pronounced, the banks bcin to discriminate discrim-inate against lnnns on securities in order to give the utmost assistance to commercial com-mercial borrowers. Gradually stock exchange ex-change borrowers sell out their stocks and pay oft' their bank loans in order to avoid high interest rates. Speculators Specula-tors icrccive that tiuht credit is re-strietirj re-strietirj activity and begin to sell out. Stock prices fall. 3. Eventually commercial "borrowers find it impossible to obtain purfieient credit to carry throutih their plans, the result being, a decrease in the volume of new orders for goods. Sellers of goods become embarrassed for lack of credit and offer goods at a sacrifice in order to obtain cnh. The falling o;T in demand and the increase in selling pressure force commodity prices to lower levrdp. MAY TAKE TIME. The venture of the government in selling v.-ar s'.ii.plies of fooihstum is I commendable in that it supplements the I administration's announced plan to; break, if po?sib!o, the grip of the profiteers prof-iteers on the public purse. But it is well that this plan of retailing foodstuffs food-stuffs is incidental only in tho campaign cam-paign against high prices. The total value of tlie war department supplies is something less than -'J tjo,0O",'j0n. Hip.re the population of the country is l)r).','j;'i, the total of foodstuils u, be sold by the government sinks into I the traditional mere btigeiollo class. -Nor should too much stress bo placed j upon Mr. 1'almer's great idea of sliain- ! ing the profiteer into selling at reason- j able prices. The dealer who will .J-1 i 1- ; era'eiy mulct his customers is not lihcly to be moved by criticism or the (ingef of scorn into more decent business practices. prac-tices. An appeal to liis conscience might effect something if he possessed one. 7'he attorney gcn'-ral is more to the point when ho urge., additional legislation legisla-tion to buttress the fight against excels profits. The government has ;i formidable formi-dable weapon in the food control nil, but this embraces hoarders only. There-is There-is nothing 011 Iho lawbooks to fit the dealer or producer who fixes pric-3 to suit lii-i notions of tho ability of the ' ultimate con umer to pay, ''.Ml the traffic will le-ar" was the old-lime (dan of the railroads in fining freight rates. Taut is tlo; guiding " principle " of tho profiteer. I'riees even ' IJ.'i Ily V. i 1 1 descend lo a more reasonable low, ',,t l,i,, happy 1 1 ' '.a ' 1-01 v. ;!l cum not . a n- -nil of j go -. e r 11 up. e I, .,iiliiic-i 1,, retailing food; and I I " tliiio 1 l-'iin t-i l-l: nib n-l- ' 1 ,1 g j 'I o'l 11c. r i :. rol ileil-M in 1 he " a ' 1 of li.e peer,,... I. It v. til bo 11. e o- ! 'j'.'-lo-e of 3 :i 1 aI nr, v.- en Ihe lOaliAn I. no!;-!, I, n ,.,ia, , I In meet eomlilionH |