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Show WAS ALWAYS F'OPULAR GAME Those Who Think There ! Anything Now In Profiteering Have Atv other Guri.i Coming. The hlnh cost of living win Just n much a problem In KU.nheilmn times lis It Is today. The ltv. Wlllliuu Harrison, Har-rison, ns iiunlnt il tosslp iih 1Vi,s, mill e(Ually gifted lis h i'Ii i onlclcr, c.uii-philned c.uii-philned Hint nuiKlstnites In his day winked at tnerclmnls who chai'Kfd more for ounuiodtt ies thnn they w ere penult led by law to cliKi'tc In that day. us in this, "bodnerit" this delightfully delight-fully descriptive word Is of the dominie's domi-nie's ow n coining wfiv allow ed "to burn up corn mid rulsp the price of It ; to carry It home unsold, or to a distant dis-tant market, if they want more money limn the buyer likes to pa. ; nay, they've leave to export It for the benefit ben-efit of enemies ahrotid, ho at to uinkn more profit. During the world war there was much talk of certain Americans who deliberately destroyed carloads of potatoes, po-tatoes, cabbages and other vegetables and foodstuffs In order to raise the prices of these commodities. Same old story. Tluvre's nothing new. reniarku J. N. IL, In Rochester Post Express. Again, to hark hack to good Canon Harrison, "pesterlferous purveyors buy up eggs, chickens, bacon, etc.; butter men travel about and buy up butter at farmers' houses, and have raised Its price from lSd to 40d a gallon. These things are 111 for th buyer and the poor man, and should not be allowed." After all about the only thing that Is true Is that there Is no new thing under the sun. Like the poor, the profiteer Is always with ns. |