| Show WAR ARTO TO BE WAGED ON BUTE BUTTER PRICES Popular Indignation Over the theLast theLast theLast Last Raise Rais Continues s Very Much Unabated WHAT THE GROCERS MAINTAIN Local Retail Dealers All Al the hue Blame on oll 01 Ito tho u Which Is Isu ng Generally Popular over the tho tl lost last 11 t trise raise rise in the price of butter continues Very cly much unabated The Tita he creamery men Judging from flom the expressions to today duy day of nf one butter butel and egg egg firm claim this tho th complaining public Is all al wrong and an that it Is in the natural and ordin ordinary or ln ary I courser of of trade and business s that the thc gone up and that The Tho News Js wrong in lit making makinI such 1 p runs fuss it However the tho market men end grocers side with the consuming con consuming um ing In public Said the head salesman of or ofa a n largo large JaIte market this morning The Tho ho women have just ju t cause to complain There Thoro Th r is ta I no just or reasonable excuse I for tor up the price of butter buter so 8 and anti I hope the women will trill wi carry car out their threat to to quit mit using batter b ter It I l it unfair though to blame us for tor we as asaro aro helpless In iii the tile matter matel The cream creamery cream cry ery trust compels comI us to pay pa 38 cents wholesale and It Is la a frequent occur occurrence r rence rc that people pe pe le living two and three miles mies away will wi order a a pound of oC but butter butter buttor ter tor and a n yeast Sl cake and amI then expect us to gd go g to t the of delvery delivery When hen Is done how Itow hoW much profit Is there left for us For my part I r should sh uld be glad to t see Se the butter buter trade trado cut right out and people to stop using it HOW HO THE THOO TH SHE E WORKS Said the thc head he of a I prominent com corn commission mission house house today There Thole Is no good reason why butter buter should be 45 4 cents cent a pound and in packages scant ono one and and two ounces at at that The Tho bottom of or the whole thing is a put up job on tho the part of tho the butter buttOr buU I trust and Ill Il tell tel you how they work It I The Te trust management sends an agent out Into a n country settlement where there Is i a k creamery who goes among the producing producIng ing farmers offering prices slightly In excess of oC those given by the local creamery creamer for their cream This of course coure catches the Innocent farmer who docs does not see through the tho game garo but thinks think he Is doing a fine fino stroke of business Presently tho the creamery peo pee people pie fluid business slacking up and after a sufficient length of ot time tho trust management makes akes the country countI es establishment establishment an offer to close up for tor fora tora a a stated time as It I Is represented business warrants w it I If tho local peo people co copie pie refuse tho the overbuying Is continued until there Is a surrender Then with wih this competitor out of ot the tho way there theis Is a a reduction nf ot the tho prices paid the honest h nest farmer for lila his cream ns as the agent alleges a 0 tailing falling off or In quality due perchance to poor feeding or oi Improper care eara and a n thou thousand thousand sand tend nd one other reasons With this plan piau of ot operation obtaining over a wide area are bf of country countr the trust soon has the battle in 1 Its It own hands and nd up goes the price of butter buter as handled by the thc trust We Yo can not help he be beyond yond ond getting tho the facts before beCore the pub public lie lic lc and relying r on public sentiment to compel the trust to stop this sort of thing thins Is this his style of ot operations confined to this section of ot tho the country was asked Oh no It Is so all al over the country east cast cas as well as a west west There Tere Is a s wen well organized of operations after this fashion whereby the tho trusts boost prices and mako the suffer They The are aro no worse hero here her than else also elsewhere where WOMEN WO MAKING MAING HARD HAD FIGHT The rhe butter buter war goes merrily on to today toda today day da An endless chain with wih a a de determined determined woman for each link was wa started this morning and the women at n the th forefront of the movement de do clare clara unit tUt there thore Will 1 bo t no letup until tile the tie puce price is h dropped to 35 33 cents Tho The women have have adopted a n strenuous cam campaign cm and a the thc endless chain system was wa suggested yesterday the first of ot tile the skirmish Each woman called caled ort oil the telephone this morning was wa pledged to call five other women wonton and to pledge each of them to call cal five lve other women and so ao on without limit Before tho the next few days das have hae passed pa d the women expect that nearly nearl every woman noman In the tile city will nill wl havo have been approached on the tho subject The rhe response the women met with wih yesterday Were bore ere gratifying to thorn them and and they expect more than ever to win winnow winlOW now how lOWYe lOW We Ye have met snot with splendid success thus far was tho the bulletin from tho the headquarters of the army this afternoon Nearly every woman we wo talked with wih said sd that she sho would enter into a 3 solmen compact and would do her best be t to get Iet others other to do the same Many lIan of us will wi do without butter Ae al ai together in ordering our goods goos from tho grocers The Tile grocers must know kno that wo we arc are In this tIght fight t tc stay st and that we nc mean mea business from the start |
