Show AND STRANGLED mm not long ago a train of foli fouteen acl cars cara of potatoes billed to the chicago market were discovered at t a small town near bhatta Y where here they had been aid aids a tracked an and it left to r rot a t at a time when potatoes we were a selling ut 4 00 a bushel for far a I 1 n umber her of y ea ears 8 now we he have b been ec n hhorn learning I 1 ng of the willful destruction d to every season of each camm 0 lines as potatoes cabbage molon melons apples hs and other fruit wb when there opp was as an opportunity by sa ad don doing 0 to force prices up in the interest antera t I 1 of I 1 the speculators these food pirates have purchased ac acres a and it acres of fruit on the trees aid then r refused to allow the them to be picked kept the them there to rot in order to keep them from the open oen market in other ways the campaign and loot at the expense of the consumer consume has beva b n going m merrily jy on an 0 of f course merely to designate the per perpetrators perpetrate rs of these outrages a as robbers and pirates does not do one particle of good except to afford some slight relief to our feelings there ther e seems to be nothing the count country rv can do to prevent these out t rages but there should be and if we mistake not the temper of the anari ameri can people there soon will be when the countries of europe first adopted the policy of government control of food stuffs we in this country congratulated ourselves that we live in afree a free country lately however we are beginning beir inning to learn a few things that instead of the freedom of which we boast we are hamstrung and strangled by a horde of piratical food speculators who have no conscience know no law and are devoid of the first element of humanity with the proof clearly before us u that the people are being systems y and outrageously plundered our bor congress has the monumental effrontery to dawdle around and haggle boggle over oer minor details while shile the P poorer e r c lasses clasps of our population are being driven to distraction with such examples before us the action of president wilson in demanding food control by the qc government vern ment even a dictator if necessary looks good to us it will out not keep t the he producer from receiving a fair a and d just price for his products nather neither will it injure the consumer but it will everlastingly put a crimp on the golden tail of the remorseless speculator peculator it is time for Lad i ogress to enact adequate laws law whereby the dent can once and tor for all put an end to this hamstringing ham stringing and stran atran ahng of the american consumer |