Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-07
WORK IS EXTENDED
Anti-Food- Trust League In
creases Jurisdiction.
PROGRESS IN TEN STATES
War on High Prices to Be Waged
Relentlessly-Mass Meet
ing to Be Held.

The Anti-Food-Trust League is pushing
its organization outward into the states,
and 1t is expected the first blow against
the continued high prices for foodstuffs
will be struck in the not very distant
future. President Scharf stated this
morning that the propaganda of the
league is being forwarded in ten different
states, and as soon as twenty states are
organized the league will try conclusions
with the so-called food trust. The three
states most recently organized include
Ohio, West Virginia and Iowa Mrs. Ida
C. Isham of Cincinnati, president of the
Mothers Club of Ohio, was made state
director for Ohio: B. F. Loot of Des
Moines state director for Iowa, and Mrs.
Sturgiss, wife of Representative George
C. Sturgiss, state director for West Viz
ginia. A mass meeting will be called of
residents of the District of Columbia
within the next few weeks, so that the
plans of the league for fighting increased
prices without recourse to sporadic boy
colts may be given as much publicity
as is possible.
Review Covering Imports.
considerable interest attaches to review
covering imports of farm products dur
ing the past sixty years. which has Just
been prepared in the form of bulletin
by Joseph A. Arnold, chief OF the division
of publications. Imports of agricultural
products increased much more rapidly
than the population did, according to the
statistics gathered by Mr.. Arnold. In
the period 1851 to 1856 the imports aver
aged In value $271 per capita: during the
five years, 19O1-1905, the average was
S5.67.
THE farm products imported into ,d the
United States during the fiscal year lUi,
the year of highest record" says the pull
lettn. amounted in value to nearly S621,-
100000 The imports for 1908 were valued
at $40, 100000 in round numbers. and
the average for the five years. l9ol-l9oo'
was a trifie over $455,OO,OOO.
BY comparing imports with exports 1t
is found that for the five years. l3Ol-19Oo.
our average exports of cotton, grain and
grain products exceeded by $14.OOO.OOO our
total imports of products of the farm.
Endurance Contest in New York.
NEW YORK, February with ex-
IRENE cold weather tending to drive
quotations up and the first wave of en-
thusiasm in the crusade against high
food prices receding, the campaign in
metropolitan territory settled down to-
day to something like an endurance con-
test.
The week opened. however. with pros
poets of trouble for the combines al
legged to be illegally keeping up rates
for necessaries Of life through misuse of
cold storage and by other means.
New York and New Jersey renewed ac-
tivities in the campaign. Attorney Cen
eral Malley of New York state is credited
with the intent on to invoke an old in
junction against the packing companies
granted In the supreme court in 1902. and
forbidding them from fixing meat prices
and preventing competition by agreement
as to rates and supply. This is sa d to
be still in force. Regulative ordinances
introduced in the New York board of
aldermen and aimed particularly at al
legged cold storage evils are to be pressed
for passage.
In New Jersey the Hudson county grand
Jury continued its inquiry into the bust
ness of the great storage warehouses of
Jersey CITY.