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Show U pand Up Go Rents and Food Prices. The poor are having a, pretty hard and tough time of it these days. Their burdens are being added upon almost daily and they are being ground more severely than evr between two heavy mill stones the rise in food prices and the rise in rents. Greed is everywhere with its outstretched itching palm to get and get, to take and take with the spirit of Shylock. Poor men are walking the pavements looking for homes and aport-menfs aport-menfs within their means and finding few or none to be had at a price they can pay. Raises in rent are everywhere in evidence, eviden-ce, in some caes inexcusable and outrageous And children are unwanted everywhere And they are daily facing their merchants with fear because of the inexcusable high prices of the necessities of life. Everywhere in the land there are the vultures of greed who are feeding fat. by trafficking in the . hunger and need of the poor. And on top of all this the new tax bill is it seems, specially drawn in favor of monopoly and against' the low-income consumer. There are some state aen cies set up for the prevention of some of these exorbitant increases in-creases in rent and the price of food stuffs. In heaven's name let them stand forth and do their full duty, and do it now. |