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Show KILL GAMBLING IN FOOD, IS PLEA OF TRUSTBUSTER Present Food Prices Held Not Justified by Law of Supply and Demand By Herbert A. Emerson Present food prices are not Justified by the law of aupply and demand, but hsve been reached only through systematic sys-tematic and well contrived plans by food extortioners, manipulators, s peculators, pecu-lators, marketrlggera and traders. The board of trade la almply an Instrument used by unscrupulous dealers. Largest opera tore on the Chicago board of trade are large grain elevator eleva-tor owners along different railroad lines stretching through Iowa, Ne-hraaka. Ne-hraaka. Missouri. Kansas. Wisconsin. Minnesota and the Dakota. Here, early In fall, these large grain operators begin to buy and store wheat and other grains aa they are threshed The farmer la paid oa the basis of the August, September and October markets on the board of trade in Chicago. Chi-cago. By December 1 from 70 to iO per cent of all grains la In the hands of peculators. It Is past history, and will be history for years to come. If the government does not Intervene, that at that season th speculatora begin to trad In May optlona, especially la the amall gralna. to a very large extent For many years It hss been the intent of these buyers and holdera of enormous stocks of grain to force the price as high aa possihl on the surplus sur-plus stocks which they are earning. Thua we find that the big part of Us grain haa been taken from the farmers al a very moderate price, as was don In the summer and fall of 111, and then w find that the price In th spring of 1U is elevated to a tremendous point, and th excuse used I that there was a short crop and that the export demand had caused this great lis In price. . From the present outlook, for the next two or three years we must anticipate an-ticipate very large exports of all kinds of foodstuffs. But, with the very beat effort made In the matter of production, the I'nlted Statea can produce not only all she wsnts for her own consumption, but she can produce more than double the amount of surplus thst there are shipping ship-ping facilitlea lo carry abroad. On account of the extreme price thst haa been paid for a certain part of the aurplua to go abroad, we find that the people of th I'nlted Statea are being charged for all the grain that la consumed at home on a basis of the very highest point reached for grain to go abroad. In the meat Industry w find a similar condition. During th big packing season of thia year, hoga sold at from $10 to til per hundred In the Chicago market, and than, after the hama and bacon were put away and th lard had been accumulated la cold storage warehouses, whel. th ordinary run of hogs abd beromo so small all the pork killed could be consumed aa fresh pork, th meat psckers began to bid np th price anlll It reached th extreme of $IT ' for live hog in the Chicago market. I Without necessity and with Bo excuse ex-cuse except that of extorting a big , i profit from the poor consumers of the new and eld worlds, these same Pck-' ers have elevated the price of all i their meat products la storage to a level with the extreme price paid dnr- Ing April and May for the fw hogs hipped from the farms at that lime. |