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Show H . BEEF AND BKEFaTEVK K A great mnny people do not think Hr there is any difference between beef and K beef steak, but. the fellow who buys both i, is at ohce convinced that there is a very B- great difference. It is said that a farmer m $ bought a steer last fall for $20.00. Hq fed B . ilSgi him all winter and brought him out good L . .and fat this spring when he sold the j steer, for $20.00. Of course he did not H. make any money but he had the use of the H ' steer all winter. B For the past few weeks'beef on foot has K sold at the lowest price for years, and yet H when one. goes, to market to Jity a beef H steak -he is. chargod wjthin a sniuU.margin B of the highest war time prices, anirUiere- H in lies the difference between beef and Hi ,.beef steak. Beef when in. the hands of H the farmer is worth so little that the H farmer cannot hope to come ou; even, but H beefsteak on the block is a. hixury that i only the rich can afford as a daity diet. , H " . Brethren, in this land. of ''e'Aua.l rights Hti to all and special privileges to none." K these things arc wrong. When, the iric.e of "beef on foot is.so ridiculously low, and the price of beefsteak so extremely high there is a big screw loose some place, aud just as long as such monstrocities prevail . just so long will present conditions prevail. pre-vail. It is foolish to expect wages to co:iw down when the laborer lias to pay the prevailing price for beefsteak. |