Show to too 0 many taking toll from products of soil before they reach consumer by MARTIN W how did it a all come about that everything is ten times higher thau than its real value when nature is faithfully working in our behalf with her miracle of sun and rain mingled with the fecundity fecund fecundity it y of sod and soil skillfully combining all their marvelous marve loua processes for our happiness and contentment how did atall it all come about that the toll takers line up between the stalk in the field and the cold storage warehouses lino hio up between the potatoes in the soil and the commission merchants line up between the grain fields and the elevators line up between the noble herds and the packing houses and having taken their increasing tolls switched their line about and forming on the right established themselves between the dinner dinder table and the commission merchants and again take tak etoll toll compounded on compound until when the food is consumed we eat cat not the product of a watchful and benevolent nature but wo we eat cat all of the parsimonious accretions of these thrifty ty toll takers streaming lis aa they do from pantries to prairies from kitchens to truck farms from dinner tables to cornfields too many are busily engaged in complicating life instead of producing something too many are turning things over and demanding pay for turning them over too many arc adding the touch of their useless toll to the products of the soil before they reach the consumer th the 0 manipulator the hoarder the the cold storage all of these in endless variety and in infinite ways divert or dam up the streams of supply |