Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-06-22

freely and for any length Of time with
out fear of changing the color. - Stops
falling hair. Cures dandruff.
Made by the J. G. Aver Co., Lowell, Mass.-
nized that Mr.. Prouty is a man of
much greater business experience and
ability than Mr.. Stanton. Even if
the two men are equal in all other re-
spects this qualification alone should |
lie ct Mr.. Prouty. Business admins
tration is what Vermont's last two
governors have given her. Business
administration has been entirely salts |
factory and should be continued. We
leave it to the people: Has not the ad
ministration of the business qualified
governor of Vermont been more salts,
factory than that of the professionally
qualified governor?
A Hint to the Sugar Makers of Vermont.
Mr.. Editor:
In the issue of the New York World
of June is an article on the Cam
bling in Grain" that shows how the far
mers are mulcted by the grain gam
blers. 1t says that wheat was selling
| on the Chicago exchange for $1.O9 per
bushel; j. Ogden Armour head of the
| packing trust. had previously bet
number of smaller gamblers that the
| price of wheat would go up. Another
gambler named Patten had bet that
the price of corn would go up, and by
out-betting the smaller gamblers Ar
mour and Patten put up the price of
wheat and corn, just as Hartman has
been putting up the price of Union
Pacific on the stock exchange, and
the price of wheat has gone up to $1.O9
and corn to 83ac. But these high prices
never prevail at harvest time. The
farmers do not participate in the
profits of the spectators for the reas
on that the grain has passed out of their
hands into the hands of the gamblers
and spectators whose initial profits
are at the expense of the farmers.
Their final profit comes from the con-
sumner. And in each case all their prof.
it's come at the expense of the general
community. Now presume the sugar
makers of Vermont have noticed that
maple sugar never sells at as high a
price at the time of making and for
some little time after as it does later
on, and / suppose they attribute it to
late scarcity and larger demand.
Has it never occurred to your minds
that there is combination among the
larger buyers to keep the price down
until they have bought up the greater
portion that is for sale. They can east
ly do this by instructing your local
merchants, and others whom they COM
mission to buy for them, not to offer
above certain low price, and by hav-
ing inserted in the local items in the
newspapers that maple sugar is selling
for seven cents a pound. But you can
beat their game by refusing to sell
under a certain price, to be named by
you. Farmers pay the prices aske
by the seller for what they buy, and
is there any good reason why they
should not name the price on what they
sell?
1t is an outrage, not only upon the
producer, but upon the consumer and
the general public, the way gambling
in agricultural products is carried on,
specially in cereal products. Wheat
and corn can be put at an almost pro-
hibitive price, small mills compelled to
close, and large ones run on reduced
time. The higher the grain gamblers
put the price of wheat the more flour
and bread cost, and the higher the
price of corn the more it costs to fat
ten cattle and hogs, the higher the
price of meat. The United State is
about the only country that has no laws
prohibiting gambling in agricultural
products. Nearly every foreign coun-
: try prohibits it by law, and our sena-
tors and representatives should be
urged and instructed to pass law reg
ulating it, and in so doing bring a
much needed relief to the poorer class
, of people.
: Why not combination of the far
mers as well as manufacturers? Those
with means could assist the poorer
ones to hold their products for a
2 satisfactory price, and in so doing
would not only be helping a neighbor
but also themselves.
G.. w. McCAFEEY