The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-02-12
A REMeDY FOR HIGH PRICES

The people Of the United States
should not allow themselves TO be
hoodwinked. by alleged investigations
and various schemes to sidetrack
attention. The sole responsibility
for the Outrageously high prices of
the necessities of life rests on con
gress and is due to the fact that the
corporations and monopolies control
congress.
Prices are bound to be high and
would be anyway for consumption
has outrun production, wages and ex-
penses have increased and We live In
an age Of extravaganza. All these
things unite to make prices high and
will make them high for this and
succeeding generations. But the
straw that breaks the camel's back
is the slice tnat goes to the trusts
and combinations above the naturally
increased cost.
The various branches of the meat
trust distributed a hundred millions
in profits the first of January and the
trust celebrated the outrage by rails
ing the price to the consumer still
higher The meat trust also controls
to a great extent the prices of butter,
eggs and fruit
The sugar trust has been stealing
millions from the government by
false weighing and in the meantime
congress sit supinely by and lets the
sugar trust extort other millions an
nually from the people by unreason-
ably high duties. These other mil
lions the trust has used to buy up
the beet sugar business in this coun-
try until prices are absolutely in
control of the trust.
Congress allows the express COM
pany combination to take out of the
pockets of the people the money TO
pay 100 per cent in dividends yeal
The worsted trust, through the fav-
or OF congress, EFFORTS a hundred
millions in extra profits every year,
and this money doesn't go into the
pockets of the wool producers but in
to the purse OF the gang that hires
Senator Aldrich to run the govern
ment OF the United States.
In the meantime what is congress
doing. 1t has appointed committee
to help kill time by a long drawn out
investigation of the high prices. In
stead of doing something in the great
cause of conservation and to prevent
the big land companies from stealing
the rest of the valuable coal. timber
and water power wealth OF the coun-
try, congress has another committee
chewing over the Ballinger-Pinchot
row.
The trusts and combinations want
nothing done at this session of con-
gress and their henchmen at Wash
ington are obeying their orders by
wasting time on side issues and try
ling to distract the attention of the
people by making lot of fuss over
petty things
Congress has it in its power to
bring the beef trust to its knees in
side of IS hours by passing a bill to
admit meats free into this country
If that did not prove sufficient, in an
other IS hours it could impose an ex
port tax, but as congress is at pres
ent constituted it will not do either
1t will talk and kill time and let the
trusts pile up their profits
The recent report of the Pittsford
anti-tuberculosis sanitarium again
emphasizes the great work that is
being done there. Not only in the
treatment of its patients is this a
splendid institution, but in the way II
is educating the people of the state
to treat and safeguard themselves al