Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1910-07-20
WEDNESDAY. JULY 90. 1910
HIGH pRICES NM NEW YORK.

n EW WORKERS are finding that prices instead
IN of decreasing are going up. There is to be
no decrease in the cost of living. Rather the re-
verse is the outlook. The report of the Senate
4 Committee of investigation amounted practically
10 nothing No remedy was suggested by the
Lodge committee Some of its conclusions were
sense, some nonsense. Conveniently the commit
tee PLACED the chief blame upon the farmers. That
was an easy way out of it.
"Reminiscences in New York prices are another
the price of milk two cents to the price or
4 butter three cents incr1ase in eggs and another
rn@ttle increase in lard and bacon. Compared with
berrieses some time ago, the increases are clearly
brings trma
compleMoss CHER cost of milk meaDs to the residents
noalam shouoork in the aggregate S6OOOOOO year
to aught else, Ses in all commodities means TO New
ing noted afte' alone advance of many millions
The reaai1es have prices been advanced, but lately
tronbles ALL been called to the fact that the con-
rapid ners ia. cug York have been Systematically VIC
Sc 9mzed by short weights and short measures Even
- at the high prices they have not been getting what
they paid for Six hundred short measures we're
discovered in one day. 1t has been plain rob-
berry OF the purchasers
investigations show that of the dollar expended
for food products by the consumer, the producer
receives thirty cents That is the basis of the rou-
ble-the vast cost of the middeman and the
freight man and the handler of products
1t is charged that when potatoes we're selling
in New York State for IS cents bushe, retailers
in the city getting 20 cents haf-peck In
some parts of Delaware recently, potatoes we're
drug on the market Apples last fall rotted on
the ground in New York State, but peddlers in
the city we're getting FIVE cents each for them.
Even before the present high prices, Keiffer pears
in Delaware we're so abundant that the farmers
would not pick them or they we're sold without any
hgure-at ten cents basket or less yet Keif-
fer pears at the same time retailing for FIVE
cents each at summer resorts.
1t is said that oranges which sell for five cents
each bring the producers in Florida cent each.
New York writer declares that farmer makes
+ less than cent quart on milk above the cost
Of food and labor And so it is all the way down
the line The farmer, to be sure, is getting more
than he did a few years ago, but he is not re-
ceivng exorbitant profits by any means. Such
talk is 6ction.
The profits are going to the handlers OF farm
products. The meat packers pay enormous divi-
dends on high capitalization. One OF the New
York milk companies that recently increased the
price of milk paid a dividend OF p per cent. last
year and the capitalization of course was high
Think of the prices restaurant keeper in a
large city gets for meal and figure the cost of
the raw material at the farm, and the enormous
range OF profit can be seen.
Some New Workers suggesting that public
markets be established TO which the food products
could be shipped direct. This would result in a
considerable saving although if the markets we're
like those in Wilmington, prices would be pretty
well maintained.