Show f. f V f THE MIDDLEMAN q V V V Considering the state state of trade the Philadelphia J-J J t s Many slips remaIn remain but this tIus bare ress ress sa says sas lunt fact is of more weight than many speculative V f quotations but trade is normal It proceeds to toV V F i-ay i ay that food will remain high nothing can pre- pre V i. i ent that and adds The retail purchases of 1 VCr 90 per cent of incomes and wages will vill be beV V 1 IY reduced by the outlays s 's for for food This cov- cov the whole range of domestic supplies f The Press thinks this is the reason why there V has been heen a falling off in the footwear trade and J. J many any grades of cotton goods aye are still on ll at 9 to toV V V io 10 cents a pound basis bas for the raw material when I ij- ij otton is IS now 2 cents a a pound higher ug ler Woolen tu H 00 1 en do not advance with the rise in wool L All of which which means that the cost of f living is so I 1 great that families have to reduce their expenses in m ther directions V The orders orael'S and the output for steel 9 arc fully ur UI f and the final conclusion is that the great greal fe- fe feis is back on the prosperity basis Prices are rising ising each week by small advances i is believed that the prices will be normal and anti andt t t the wheat theat harvest will possibly make up for last Jast years year's deficit And in this connection it is proper roper to say that while a considerable advance in food prices was to have to-have have expected been because of V the increased cl an amount V of money in inthe the c country 1 i here bere is no possible reason why the tr tremendous advances advances ad ad- vances have been made during the last four years They can be accounted for in no way except that a V class of middlemen have control first of the producers pro pro- and second of the retail merchants It is an n evil which is now as broad as tl the e nation and it itis is t the Ie dut duty of e C every ry city cily to take such Steps tens s as RS will vil st stop p the unmitigated robbery anti and nUIsance If nothing else l cn can be done clone then a municipal municipal mu- mu store should be opened where for cash people could buy an anything thing they wanted at a small percentage over the real cost Such a store storo would have havo to be on a cash basis and l would be a good thing hing too for the the community because a person making purchases at a store if for cash ash is s careful to o buy no more than he lie or she sho absolutely needs while where the credit runs tO the V end cud of the mouth purchasers Ver very often when they want but half a box or oi half a ii po of something will order ordera a full box or a full pound And speaking of this we believe that were sonic some man or firm flu with Capital to open a store on that thal basis in this town having its own shrewd buyers arid and selling only fo for cash and amI o only lly charging a reasonable profit that store would do dowell dowell dowell well from the first da day V V There is no evil so great that it ft t be cannot V overcome over oyer- come collie if ii prop proper r energy t and intelligence are used in ill n fighting it il and the prices for which people can call buy my supplies in the tho country and amI what they are arc charged for the same supplies by retail merchants mer in n this city is enough to show that somebody outside outside outside out out- side of the merchant is making more money than lie he ic is is From this article we take it that it is the same way vay in Philadelphia and hence the people dir directly c y interested should proceed directly to squeeze out of existence this inner claSs elas that is engaged in robbery so plain that a child can understand it and a sensible community ought to overcome it V |