Show FARMERS AFRAID OF BOYCOTT The food combines in this city will ill not be broken up lip by a series of resolutions Its tenta tentacles les are arc more binding than we thought A housekeeper of tho the city went through the market the other morning and priced some of the most widely used articles There I was some kind of an outing at the Lagoon that da day and ond this housekeeper took the train an and wont there A farmer was there with a load of vegetables fruits eggs fat chickens and other farm products The prices at which he held his articles were compared compared com coni- pared with the retail prices here in the cit city as ns 40 is isto isto isto to The person person from the city bought a two weeks' weeks supply and then asked the farmer why he did not come to this city with hi his wares telling him that he could sell a wagon-load wagon in half an hour The rho farmer fanner replied as follows 8 If I were to do that the merchants would never neer again buy an anything thing of me and I would be ruined So it seems the combine fights with a double- double edged 5 sword ord It pays the farmers what it pleases for his products and then charges charges' the customers anything anything anything any any- thing it pleases And if a n farmer dares to sell to toan an anyone except the time combine then the boycott is invoked in iii- yoked against him It surely is time for a new deal |