Show LAWS responsible give the big dealer an advantage over the little fellow wa hington oat 11 apropos of our recent dispatches concerning tho advancing prices ot food stuffs of all kinds at tho national capital new york st paul and elsewhere a visitor from philadelphia adds an interesting but brief chapter to the story of the situation he la a family man Is comfortably fixed financially and has had a practical experience of the entire subject it Is a mistake he sas to think that the discontent about the soaring prices of food Is confined to the purchasing element of the public the housekeepers and the heads of families who pay the bills 1 I am fond of marketing when at home and I 1 have frequent heart to heart chats with abo benders venders of steaks fowls vegetables butter and my chief purveyor Is a maa I 1 have known for years aal this is what lio said to mo tho other day this period of extreme high prices is a bad thing for everybody and the men who have the things to sell are as discontented as their customers very bagli prices mean small consumption it I 1 could sell that pair of chickens for 80 ants instead of also 1 could dispose of twice as many only a few years ago such a pair of light weights would have brought just halt abo price I 1 am forced to demand now when I 1 must charge 25 cents a pound for eal cutlets and aa much for lamb chops in to make a moderate profit there are going to be fewer buyers of these or else the amount bought Is going to bo greatly diminished curiously enough continued the market man all the laws that have been passed for the regulation of food products seem to have resulted in an increase of their cost the pure food law which Is right in principle has been of enormous benefit to the dressed beef monopoly the small arc unable to comply with the regulations compelling government inspection and hence the low priced meats which they used to furnish are no longer obtainable the result Is that the combine being wholly without competition can run up the price af pf beef or pork another cent a pound any day of the week it chooses and the public can either pay or do without |