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Show ASSOCIATION TO JNTER POLITICS Retail Merchants Favor Representation Representa-tion on County Ticket This Fall. Salt Tw4ke, May 2fi Judging from the tenor of certain remarks made "Wednesday night at tho meeting of the Retail Merchants association In Its rooms In tho Atlas block. It Is likely like-ly that the assoc-laMou will cuter the political arena during tbe coming fall campaign and attempt to have placed on at least two of the tickets In the field a member of the organization. The proposition was launched by oija of the members of the ahsoclatlon In a spirited speech. In which he declared de-clared that it was the only way hy which thr retail merchants could got tho rights that wore du them No definite action was taken on the matter. mat-ter. It helng left open for discussion at other meetings. The member who recommended rec-ommended that tho retail merchants enter the political field said that the association was strong enough to make a showing If all the members would unite In the common cause. F. W. Wilson Ta'lke. F. W. Wilson, returned delegate from the Datlonal convention of grocers, gro-cers, at Springfield. 111., gave an in- terestlng talk on the work of the convention. con-vention. From his observations In the middle states, and all along tho line, Mr. Wilson 6ald that he was of the opinion that it was not the "high cost of living, but the cost of high living" that was troubling the country at tho present time. He said that he found the cost of the necessaries of llfo to be about the same In all the cities he visited. At tho eonventiou, resolutions were f passed favoring tho repeal of the tax crosscut will proceed to the main tain that If this tax were repealed It would solve, to a great extent, the high-price problem of at Ica9t one article of food, that of butter. With the ten-cent tax off, they claim that the people would hae a good substitute, substi-tute, in case tho price of butter became be-came excessive, and with cheap oleomargarine oleo-margarine on the market there '-onlj I be a tendency to lower the price of f butler. The convention also passed resolutions reso-lutions favoring the plarlng of net weight or count marks on original packages, with the Idea of protecting protect-ing the purchaser, who, in most ca-ses. did not kuow whether he was buying Ight ounces or a full pound. |