Show RED FLAG OF DANGER right now nov anen cairn caim thinking and sane action are required we face the menace of unscrupulous and greedy stock exchange gamblers as well as other commodity speculators just see what happened to wheat no one believes for a minute that the sensational rises in stocks and farm products Is the result of an orderly departure of the depression it is principally the action of gamblers on the exchanges in jockeying prices back and forth aorl in order that they may clean up millions illions for themselves regardless of how it affects the rest of the country the return of confidence naturally has a tendency to revive trading and restore prices to a sane degree but beyond that it becomes simply a commodity poker game in which the experienced gamb gambi i lers become richer and the foolish I 1 lambs lose their shirts everyone knows that the country is burdened with a large surplus of commodities resulting in the shutting down of factories and the throwing of men out of employment because buyers could not mot be induced to absorb them yet we see factories running on full time and capacity six days in the week in order that greater surpluses may be piled up at the present low cost of production to be sold later at enormously increased profits when prices are up in the sky that is fictitious prosperity and it can not last the profiteers are already sky ky rocketing prices far beyond le legitimate i figures regardless of the fact that wages are still down dom and people are practically without money to spend if honor and fair dealing are to become lost or unknown quantities it will compel the government to resort to general price fixing in all lines in order to prevent another economic collapse and the undoing of all that lias has been accomplished since mr roosevelt entered the white house if such a course becomes necessary it will be due entirely to the greediness of the gamblers and the profiteers the red flag of danger is ahead |