Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1910-06-28
HIGH PRICE PROBE
OF GOVERNMENT
Has Taken Steps 70 See That Prices
Are Lowered Where Possible
to Reach the Trusts.


lowered.
There has been much talk about
the higher cost of living, and no one
has appreciated it more than the
women who have noticed the tighten
ing OF their pocketbooks and of their
market baskets at the same time
1t is all very well for the men that
the government should pursue the
Tobacco trust, the Standard Oil, the
Plate Glass, the Plumbers, and all
the other trusts but these things in
terest the women but little, when
they see the prices of practically ev-
erything they want on their break
fast and dinner tables steadily climb
ing higher and getting out of reach.
So now the Southern Grocery Trust
has been brought to account and its
officers are to be forced to explain
the reason for the high prices which
it is alleged their combination has
maintained. 1t is believed that the
effect of the action will be felt by
other sections and will result in re-
stricting the activity Of other SINH
ar organizations.
Besides appealing to the court to
dissolve the association itself and
eclare it Illegal, the government
SKIS that every one of its 500 mem
ers or more be forever prohibited
rom entering into any agreement
mong themselves as to the prices
which they should sell the, neces-
ties of life. The officers of the
Bsociation who are to be brought in
court at Birmingham, Alabama,
e.
President, Jos. H. McLaurin, of
orida; vice president, L. M. Hoop
Of Alabama; second vice presi-
mt, F. E. Hashagen, of North Caro-
ia; treasurer, G. w. Bartleson, of
orida, and secretary, Robert Moore,
Alabama, together with nine 9TH
constituting the advisory board.
icers of two big grocery concerns
Birmingham are also to be hauled
the bar.
They are alleged to be wholesale
beers dealing in interstate COM
rce in sugar. -four, cakes and
ckers, soap and washing powders,
eals, soda and baking powders.
, milk products, canned goods, ST.
is and other necessities of life.
~ are charged with being engag-
IN a conspiracy to maintain prices.
alleged that hundreds of thou
Is of dollars have been distribut-
members of the association by
officers as a reward for maintain
prices and other sums have been
ssed as fines and penalties for
erselling the price list.
he association is a close corpora
and no outsider could get in
out the consent of the other
hbers.
hen President Taft with the gold
of Postmaster General Hitchcock
the long eagle quill of Delegate
rews of New Mexico wrote "Wil-
II. Taft" upon the statehood
he put at an end a quarter cen
of worry for the holders of
bonds of Pima county, Arizona,
wound up one of the most COM
ted financial romances that has
ed legislators here for many
ok in the early days of Arizona,
Residents of Pima county were
tious to have railroad con-
Ted from Tucson, the county
to Globe, Arizona, the locality
great mining field. Accordingly
territorial legislature passed in
mandamus act requiring Pima
y to issue county bonds to be
nged for railroad bonds in the
ruction of this road.
Fording to the statements of
Mark Smith. former delegate
Arizona, who appeared before
enate committee on territories
the recent statehood hearings,
te for this railroad was graded
pillow for 10 miles out of Tue
Ties were laid at intervals of
20 feet, the rails were tied to
es and that finished the build
the Tucson-Globe short line.
supervisors of Pima county
Exchanged county bonds sun
TO cover the building of these
Hes and placed the rest of the
issue in the safe at the court
These bonds we're taken from
pfc, though no one knows how
whom. and were next seen be-
ated as high grade securities
the New York market