Show speculation IN pro FRO provisions VISIONS F from rom many quarters we hear bear numerous and apparently well grounded complaints against the tho course which has been taken in our midst by one or two man men who deal in provisions last saturday a working man went onalie on the street to buy flour he could not find iti it at any but ono one store and they refused to sell him fifty pounds they rw would oil oli CL not open any ing more moro re until monday when they expected it would bring more th than A did aia the phe ahen then io no went wont to another placa place an on bleday monday mon morning and andt hey bey would only iob iou iet lei him hayo havo twenty av nive five e pounds bundi aith as they cy had bad nat tapao to apen moio moro sacks ta weigh hi ol 01 out oue nifty nitty fifty pounds the ivison reason of their not danting ranting antl ng to belr sell nifty fifty pounds was flour lavas lAras las risings A dealer in provisions who v a oops cops A store writes to us on tho the subject I 1 ai ho he asks in relation to the tho fluctuation in iu the prices of flour 1 who has han been and still is causing this fluctuation Is it the farmer I 1 think not lot of courso course lie tle liel will get got all his flour is worth and ana sometimes a little more but who can blame blaina him when nearly a dozen lilen men will win surround him and erect an auction mart on tho the street of courso course flour ac goes to the hi highest hest bidder it was only tho the other day dax that tho the article of flour was wis run up from 10 to 13 per sack there are some somo two ore ori erthree or three men gaining a name in this business if wo we may credit the reports which como come to us that all the money they ever had or ever will have can not make decent money would be no inducement du cement to any honest just man to place himself in a position where such odium and such feelings of indignation from the poor would rest upon him there is no necessity for these high prices price of provisions which rule at tho the present time mainly traceable race ablo abio to speculators speculator sv and no speculators in in food can prosper in iii this community comm it they are known to the people and the deop 0 have good memories they do not forget the men who take advantage of their feces bitic we were vero told this morning by a liable liable go gentleman tl eman that one of these flour speculators u acors went on t to every store where flourway flour was 0 for o sale saie and bought it up so that he might ha have havo v tilo tile 0 market in in his own hands and sell at his hia own prices can such a man expect to I 1 prosper cosper ro sper we would have liked to have ov overheard eTheard ins in I 1 s prayer in the evening after consummating such a it transaction rans action I 1 |