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Show ' 1 PUTTING THE CASE PLAINLY. Old Man Ellphalet Maintained Ey to , A His Own Interests. w Upton Sinclair in an address at a vegetarian banquet attacked tho trusts. "The trusts" effrontery Is amazing," he said. "They commit n sin with as virtuous an nlr as you or I would do a piece of charity. And thero la no getting around them, no heading them off. They aro like old Ellphalet Hos-klits. Hos-klits. "Ellphalet Uosklus was ono of the-old the-old resldenters of tho Head of Sassa- fras, n umall Maryland village. Ho was light fingered. Ho lifted eggs, bars of somy, potatoes, chlckons anything any-thing that came In his way. Tho Head of Sassafras people know his falling well, but on account of his great age they had pity on him. Ho was never punished. "It happened that ono night a load of dried fish nrrived nt the wharf too lato fer tho keeper of the genoral stco to rcmovo It. "'They're an honest lot hero,' muttered mut-tered tho storekeeper as ho drew tnrpaulm over his dried flsh, nnd Just I then he heard cautlouB footsteps. He j looked up nnd there was'old Ellphalet Hosklns cjelng tho mound of flsh ' gloatingly. " 'Kllphalet,' ho said, Tvo got to leavo this pllo of flsh out hero over night. Now, If I give you thoso two flno follows wUl yon promlso not to . T steal nny of tho others?" "Ellphalet looked at Uie two flsh in ' tho storekeeper's hand. " 'That's a fair offer, Mr. Smith,' ho said slowly, "but well 1 dunno I J think I can do better.'" |