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Show FIBS CONDEMNED FOyOLlG WHEAT President of Retail Grocers Association Associa-tion Asserts Grain Growers Are Government Pets St. Louis, Fob. 1. Tho "holding out" tactics of American farmers wns blamed for tho high cost of living by Frank U. Connolly of San Francisco Cal., president of tho National Association Asso-ciation of Retail Groiers In an address ad-dress bero Inst night. The government govern-ment should ceaso its Investigation of grocers and turn such attention to farmers Instead, ho said. Ho continued: Millers aro offering $1.40 a bushel for wheat and aro ab.o to set very llttlo of It, although tho farmers' granaries and elovutors aro bulging with vast supplies. Tho farmer is tho government's pet. Ho was tho llrst to bo exempted from tho now Clayton antitrust bill and it would bo impossible- to punish him under tho antlt.-UBt laws, If It Bhould not be proven that thoro is an agreement agree-ment to hold wheat. m |