| Show PROMPT ACTION imperative the recent indi indictment ot of the onion on combine bills in boston and later of t the he egg trust in chicago should pr arv open the eyes eves of our national law makers maker to the very patent fact face that thai 11 there 13 a something rotten in the un led sta es very ory rotten for far months now the people of this thia country have insisted that the present extortionate lot bmat prices places of cum com dite re traceable to the price manipulators that while there them may be a scarcity in certain lines linea ot at commodities moth modi ties that Zear carcity city is a not net by an III means acute enough to warrant the almost prohibitive cost of the irti cles cleb in que question tion it was waa n no 0 to the public to learn that the clog egg giong eang worked their scheme through let bious a sales As a matter of fact that ia the established method of those gentry their whole cufar ous business is pure gamble and squeeze always at the expense of the consumer S hut oll with the exception of the pro actions u under the sherman law it seems heend that we are a long it time 11 in air at any y relief th these r I 1 tiona anut will tint net be it a drop in the bucket bucka a from the fact that they tire are like y to be lung iong draw drann out at and tedious and oil to amount tu to very little in the end oil th the people of this country I ic have c not forgotten tor gotten the farcical tion dmn of the standard Stan daid oil company ind act how very little was accomplish lit ed i in the tha preset emergency inere i but one and that is I 1 in go pvn ri ment interment inter int ervent venti n to regulate aiice puces and front present indication we feir an ahir ill or cr p will be harvis toi tej and ty ky the h i va gs impure the law steps to i and in tro atea a rule ruh of reason and sanity we b lieve president ident is doing the best basc he cop cap to this thia end but he 1 handicapped by the p rillina it n of coar c ingress and the machina tiona lound ot of the hirelings hirt huro lings of the ibe speculators one thing is certain cei tain we must have both a maximum and a mini mum price established on all earn com lit ID tittles the producer as well as the consumer must be protected prote fied if necessary neco wary the products should bf be marketed market td I 1 y government bureaus thus 1 eliminating I n jing entirely the theoa mg ing horde of speculative middlemen bread riots riola are too near for comfort they would be fatal fatai in our national crais |
