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Show INSATIABLE FOOD SPECULATORS AND OTHERS GRAIHIING EVERYTHING. The cost of living is becoming intolerable. Upon Up-on even the flimsiest excuse prices of foodstuffs nro raised, nnd if no excuse exists they nre boosted boost-ed on general principles. Millions of people who nre dependent upon their daily labor find it almost al-most impossible to keep soul nnd body together. In hundreds of thousands of cases their vitality is slipping away from pure lack of sufficient nourishment. Yet in tho very face of tills the Insatiable food speculators and profit grabbers nre turning the screws tighter every dny. There appears to be but ono way In which this sucking of the blood of humanity can be stopped, and that is for the government to take prompt action and fix a maximum price at which every article of food is to be sold, and In fixing the maximum the price should be first scheduled down to normal. nor-mal. Tho fact that a scarcity in foodstuffs exists ex-ists should not be accepted as an excuse for allowing al-lowing prices to remain nt their present outrageous out-rageous figures. And tho same action should bo Utkcn with reference to every article of necessity that we use. |