| Show SUCKING THE POOR MANS BLOOD food speculators poc lt and price boost ers era are literally sucking the life blood of the poor people of this country try and are poring paring to the bone the resources of these in more moderate do circumstances and this in the face of war and misery and death we see me much in 10 the press about gove government rement regulation of the food qu question estion but we see no definite action taken by congress to such regulation we read of law officers summon ing in speculators and going before gran grand d juries but we look in vain for convictions and jail sentences and nd in the mean time prices of the very necessities of life keep right on an mounting skyward people who live on the noise chev make rush into print and tell us that it is simply a question of supply and demand and that prices will automatically adjust themselves when the new crops are on the market it is NOT a question of a supply appy I 1 and demand and prices will not cut adjust themselves until the govern ment t steps I 1 in with an non iron hand and slams every thieving speculator and keeps him there if allowed to run vt st large they will 11 buy up the new stocks blocks of inions so aa they have bought up the 0 old ld ones and prices will be just what they choose to make them no one expects these reptiles to d do 0 anything for the welfare of their country burthey but they should no longer be allowed to drag it down to rum ruin we can not afford internal trou brou hiss blea with affo a foreign war on our hands handa soil and as a 15 loal al american we ask con gm gross soil and the government to act and act quickly the blood of the poor man I 1 is disappearing and in its wake will come rioting noting and anarchy this must not be and only official action can prevent it |
