Ogden Daily Standard | 1915-02-01 | Page 9 | Farmers Blamed for High Prices

FliRSllI FOR M PRICES ' "Holdirjig Out" Tactics Cause ! of the High Cost of Living. IH St Louis, Mo., Feb. 1. The "hold H ing' out" tactics of American farmers il was blamed for the high cost of liv- ilH ing by Frank B. Connolly of San H Francisco, Cal., president of the Na- iil tional Association of Retail Grocers H in an address here last night. The H government should cease its lnvestiga E tlon of grocers and turn such atten IH tlon to farmers Instead, he said. Hl "Millers are offering ?1.40 a bush ILI els for wheat and are able to get IH very little of it," he continued, "al- B though the fanners' granaries and ele- IIB vators are bulging with vast sup iH plies." H 1 "The farmer is the Government's HB pet. He was the first to be exempted 'H from the new Clayton anti-trust bill iHH and it would be impossible to punish Hl him tinder th,e anti-trust laws, if it iHfl should he proven that there is an H agreement to hold wheat." HR on HH9