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Show FARMER ASKS SQUARE DEAL ' - Outsiders May Seek to Exterminate the Diehoncet Middleman by Some Effective Treatment South Water street, In Chicago, Is not the only refuge of the dishonest commission man. A New Hampshire fur.uer. In relating his experience with some Iloston merchants, complains that they paid him, after deducting their commission, only three dollars for three barrels of apples. Their' felling price for fruit of the same variety and quality was from two to two arid a half dollars a barrel In fact, a friend of the farmer, upon lu-miring lu-miring the price of one of these three barrels, waa tcld that It was three dollars. The farmer thereupon en tered a protest. Of course It was alt a "mistake." tnd the commission merchants cheerfully cheer-fully paid or at any rate paid the extra amount. It la fair to assume that ibis firm made such little mistakes at other times Is It strange, then, that fruit growers and consauiera alike denounce de-nounce thu middleman? The fact Is that forces are being marshaled to subdue the "superfluity jf naughtiness" among middlemen, nd if tbe honest dealers who are satisfied sat-isfied IUi fair profit do not reform their evil companions, outsiders may ieek to exterminate these parasius by .oruo effective antiseptic treatment ve are drawing up no indictment araitmt all classes of middleman, but e believe that the limit of the public's pub-lic's piitlencw has been reached Wise sural would do well to recognize this , fart and shupe their future conduct -c rordingly. When the American citl-'en citl-'en hffotnea thoroughly Indignant the , abject of bis wrath gfrirslly suffers. , riie recent political overturns In several sev-eral lare cities rudest dial rorrup-lien rorrup-lien sometimes pi.i lh danger limit, t!ier by falling a victim to , (wakened puLltc sentiment. The truth ibout the tratrc in farm product hiII ear results The t'ountry lit ntleu,&. |