Show WAR WAR AN EXCUSE EXCUSE FOR GRAFT Bumper ump r crops crops crops' a are e reported p rt d- d j. j from froni all nIl parts of the c country our ourt t export trade with Europe has hns' been ed account nt of en suspended on rj 1 w war r we hn have no ships to 4 iJ carry carry our pro products to South Amk Am- Am k- k erica fica o our r foodstuffs a are e acc m ut u- u t i and yet the prices of ot the theiS iS necessaries necessaries are mounting upward t until lt l we wI wonder if there is any lly r. limit Even en the thc government is asking Why by Let us hope that it will compel a 3 truthful reply p. p and t 1 nn and that it will vill suitable w punishment if the in investigation vesti a tion uncovers th the chicanery which the thet t r. r people suspect is responsible for f this j t this is d boosting of ofF S F prices ri es v t According to the he last govern government 2 jn anent ment report on the commerce w f fj of the United States we exported export- export i ed pounds of sugar to I 1 Europe e in 1910 and imported in jt t 1 only nl poun pounds s from the markets ets Taking 1910 1010 nar as as an average and supposing that rY our ur commerce with Europe were entirely discontinued d for o one onel l year year ar this would leave c a e balante e k of more tl than ii pound r market which jn au t v of sugar on our Jur j time of peace would be shipped to ta Europe The war should make o sugar a drug on Oil li our market butin h but bat t tJ J In in defiance of the law if of l. l and and demand demand the price has al almost ul- ul 1 r. r most doubled in the past two to weeks If there is n not t something J rotten r in jn th the sugar business we ought aught to to discard our system of economics c s' s b because cause it is is founded don on a fallacy The advance in the price of f is s n not the fault of the small niall retailer and d it is tJ the fault of t the le farmer But S the v suspicion has long beeh prevalent t to o 1 that somewhere between the I beet grower beet grower and the retail dealer dealer deal deal- I er the sugar market is ui under der the ther r absolute te control o of some some of th the k greediest men that have ha ever op operated oli- oli l in ill this land of graft And ZO our r prese present lt exp experience only llY serves sew sew- i Jes es to o confirm that suspicion ni As to the alleged meat at tr trust lt f e we we e ha have hae e become so accustomed J to to financial j jugglery in these quarters that we hardly ly dare to hope for relief The packers packets are are t fio so intimately associated with h hogs that we forgive them when we see that they appropriate e the characteristic which has always t j. j distinguished that ani animal HI If Ifa political a l disturbance oil on the l lr r S 'S South u S Sea a islands should accidentally accidentally accidentally acci acci- dentally be overlooked as a an an 1 cx ex excuse x- x cuse cus for raising ai the price rice of meat in the United States we e would If have Shave reason to believe that the f millennium was as at hand But But we have cause to feel en en- sr f Such rank injustice k will ill s soon on drive the people to des lIes desperation kF Aeration and th they y will wille establish AY J. J commission a commission ico 1 w. w th O er to regulate reg reg- ul the prices prices' of necessaries r. r just j t as we now regulate now regulate railroads railroad j s. s f rates And if that does not have havethe the desired effect it will lead to tot t government ownership of some some of our man manufacturing industries ii k L- L 5 j Ju just k t t as we will some day ay have lm havet 1 t g go government ownership ot or all ou on r i. 0 pu public t bl lC u utilities Illes f |