The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-01
HERE IS THE TRUTH
About the High Prices, All in Nut
shell-Some Sound Sense on
the Proposition.

is FARMER as well as secretary Oh
agriculture, blames it on the retailer,
and lets the farmer out. The retailer
blames it on the packer and the farm
er. The packer blames it on the pro-
Queer and the retailer, and he is prob
ably nearer right than either. Ii the
Ames professor knows how to cut up
a carcass, and ii the Des MONIES fig
ures for meats are accurate, the re-
taller is getting ia per cent gross
profits. OF course, this will not ena.
BILE him to wear diamonds all in
minute, as all of us want to do, but
| in a term of years it ought to get
him quite string.
And while SOME able statistician is
| figuring out how it happens that with
normal increase in population, and
! the perfectly tremendous production
of the past twenty years prices have
wondering if all the men, women and
children of the world have turned
grasshopper, eating everything before
them, and yelling for more.
Item: One economizer must have
meat three times day. 1t is as
though he said, 81 must have cigars
! ten times a day" MeAy three times
a day is not a necessity TO anybody.
| Item: Southern grown tomatoes
are now selling in this market at fiji
/ teen cents apiece; Just let that fact
soak in. People in this city are actu-
ally paying fifteen cents for singls
tomato, or they would not be here.
Item: Butterine costs trifie mora
than half as much as butter. We
have had both on the table at the
same time, and prefer the flavor of
! the grease" as it is sometimes re-
ferred to. A good woman to whom
the fact was impaired that we often
trade at the store, do our
own washing, and eat oleomargarine,
looked unutterable things, and said
with bated breath, why, do your
AS Billy Sunday would say. You bet
we do"
i Item: Cottolene is be, g. for al.
most every purpose under the sun
than lard, which costs third more
We have no squeems at our house
and we shorten and cook with eotto'
enc.
Item: Corn syrup has the flavor OF
good caramel and is better on
buckwheat cakes than so-called maple
syrup, in which it may be admitted
there is a tincture of maple. 1t costs
about one-third as much. We use it
and like it.
Item: A good many people in this
village are paying three cents apiece
for eggs, and slamming them into
three or four sorts of rich cake for the
dinner pail. We don't buy an egg
from a late day in the summer, wher
prices begin to take on that insuffera
BILE, austere, packers trust look, unit
hen fruit begins to adorn the budding
boughs of spring. 1t costs not more
than two cents dozen to pack them
and they are better today, and viii
be better the first of March, thar
any eggs you can find now in thu
market 1t is profound secre
which | am willing to impart to any
, body for the asking.
, And the items might be indefnitel,
extended.
But the whole matter is to be care
fully and extensively investigated
: and when the reports are all in thos
Of us who are still living will know
almost as much about it as We d.
/ now. In the meantime, dear belligel
} emit reader, can tell you just VIVA
is the matter, and without your In
I curing any financial obligation.
, It is the American temperament.
: is the Joyous disposition Of the Amer
can to spend money, easily or hardl
come by. And it is the American gal
3 bage can.
: We are going to correct it all by
D boycott This is the modern method
) We shall oppose to the close-ranket
e well-drilled, Pyrrhic phalanx OF tn
t trusts the consumers loose-jointe'
+ spasmodic. enthusiastic and undisc
plined array, and break ourselves
pieces on their spears and shield
h And when the fervid and probabl
|, illegal boycott has yielded to til
l. clamors OF private and undiscipline
h stomachs, and the whole oppositio
# goes to pieces, prices will be rigl
e where they were before, or highe
l. and we shall be told that this is or
a of the evidences of our nnexamp'e
b prosperity
But we shall never learn econom
If only once we could not by adoptir
J. constitution and electing office
and board of directors, but at
g prudent and careful mothers knee, ;
]" they do In France, we could, witho
n any fuss or revolution, smash al
IT, trust or combination that sought
y, exploit us,
le But it is easier, and 1t is mil'
le more popular, to organize than
st instruct, and knowing this, the tru
to wise trusts, with organizations tn
ry are steam-tight and foolproof can ]
in gard the present sporadic nprisil
be with a smile. sit tight, and bide the
nd time. The whole bunch will be crow
vs. ing their way presently.