| Show TOO HIGH PRICES sugar hay bay and gasoline among many other articles of necessity are now selling at prices that are altogether beyond reason so high are these commodities that it is questionable whether the purchaser gets full value for his money and yet lie he hasto have them cost what they the may it would be a splendid thing if the politicians would quit quibbling over non essentials and expend their brain power in devising some equitable way whereby the price of common commodities and necessities could be fixed at a point where the seller could realize a fair and just profit and the buyer could get value for his purchase sugar nearly nine dollars a hundred is prohibitive hay at eighteen dollars per ton and musty hay bay at that is nearly two hundred per cent more than the real food value in a ton of hay is worth gasoline at thirty cents per gallon returns a profit to the manufacturer or somebody else that is altogether out of reason and the whole condition comes about so the trade declares because of 0 the war it reminds us of the experience one of the western store keepers had last fall with the indians who came with their harvest 0 of pine nuts to sell him at a figure considerable in advance of any price he had ever paid before and when he remonstrated and asked why the raise the wary son of laman promptly ans answered vered war make em in price go up |
