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Show There seems to be a growing discord in the prosperity chorus. The "Wool and Cotton Reporter" explains the poor sales of woolen goods this year and the prosperity of the shoddy industry by saying that the coal and other trusts have brought about such high prices that the purchasing power of the people is curtailed and that they cannot afford to wear any but cheap clothes, which, according to the republican idea makes a cheap man. Is it possible that the trusts are going to begin making mouths at one another, that the pot is going to call the kettle black? If so, honest men may get their dues. |