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Show BLAMES THE FARMER RETAIL DEALERS SAY PACKERS AND FARMERS ARE RESPONSIBLE RESPON-SIBLE FOR HIGH PRICES. Deny That Any Agreement an Pricei Among Retailer Ex, its and Will Not Attum Reiponelbility for Prevailing High Price. Washington - Itet.ill meal dealer.' placed upon the faiin.-m and the park era reapotisitiitity for the blaher price of meat In tr-iMmnny ubi'n li.'for" th" senate ciitllliilltee ln est littll 1 11 fi Ihe tn creased est of living on Tuesday. Five retail men fioui New York. Phrunli'li bin. Il iltlitiore iitid WnsbluK it were heard and Walter II town, a Washington dealer who kills hla own 'eat. waa th only one who did not admit Ihnl the price of meat had untie up at b ast 10 per cent during the Inst five yea re. Mr. Ilrnwn Inatated that prlcea were piarHcally the fame now aa then. All agreed, however, that competl. Hon among the p'tallere kept th price to the conaumer aa low aa boa-alhle boa-alhle Kach wltneaa vigorously denied Ihe retallera were reaponalble for prevailing prevail-ing prlcea, and none would admit that any agreement on prlcea exlaied among theni. While no one chanted that Ih pack era were In a combination, all the wit-nexaea wit-nexaea who had deallnga with them declared thcro aeemed to be do competition com-petition for retail trade. When complaint com-plaint waa made to th packer about advancing prlcea, they aald the laltur explained that the (tuck waa acarr. |