Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-09
TRUST ATTEMPTS
TO FOOL PEOPLE
Continued from First Page.)

the catch of the hand-line men down
to the level of that paid to the owners
of pound nets, which made it hard, as
| the competition was too great. Men
| who in former years made $40 day
| during the busy season, have been
reduced to 50 and So: and. taken the
| year round. this is a mere pittance.
People Are Final Losers.
But the loser in this game was
not only the hand-line fisherman.
The people of New Jersey suffered
! the most as their retail dealers
were denied the right to compete in
open market for the fish and this
competition was a very healthy one.
| 1t kept business brisk at the fishing
fstations and it meant cheap fish for
the people. 1t would be amusing to
have a retail dealer try and force
the fishermen to sell him their catch,
claiming that the fish caught were
the property of the people of the
State, and that as such representa-
tive the dealer had a right of first
chance at them.
1t would probably be compromising
for the fisherman and that Is some
thing that no one wants during this
period of suffering from the ravishes
of the elements, but if ever there was
time when the fisherman needed
to be relieved from the grasping in
fluence of the fish trust it is now.
Place him on a plane of his own and
let him stand unhandicapped and
unfettered, so that he can make a
decent price on his labors, by selling
the fruits of his labor to the retail
dealer in open competition and do
away with the profits of the middle
man of New York, who at his best
is but a leech drawing the blood
from both fisherman and the public.
A resident of this city, one of the
men that is interested in the large
flower market of New York, informs
The Evening Star that there should
be no trouble in either the Federal
government or the State authorities
taking control of the fish and run
the sale of it just as the public sale
of flowers is carried on in New York
over there the hot house people pay
for the rental of a large room and
every day in the week the florists of
Greater New York gather there and
buy in whatever stock they want by
bidding against one another. There is
no middleman to demand so per cent.
of the profits and no trust TO order
the destruction of flowers so as to
keep the market short The growers
l
don't even find objections to any out
slider bidding against them. They
| simply bid away and if an article is
too high they let it go unless they
have an order for that particular
plant.
How State and Nation Can Help.
Such could be the case right here in
New Jersey as it was once upon a
/ fa+ 20 te intaraGta6
in it's people and the officials of the
| Federal government are constantly
seeking means to relieve them of their
| troubles through Investigations and
experiments, and here at home is the
best opportunity to do something that
they have had for years. The State
can order the sale of fish to the fish
trust discontinued by an act of the
Legislature or the Federal govern
| ment can assume control of all
migratory fish by an act of Congress,
and although there would be hue
and cry go forth against the State
| going into the fish business, still the
/ actions of several Mayors of cities
when they started the sale of pota-
toes and other necessities wge 1us
plauded throughout the country b2 the
people and the press, SO why should
the State assume a ceremonious at
llLuub III d question I0dL
millions of people.
James Frazier the we'll known eco
nomic student of New York, takes up
this side of the Evening Star fight in
a letter and says: THE time has
passed when the officials of city,
county and State can stand idly by
and see their constituents robbed by
middlemen of neighboring states. New
Jersey has had the pound nets for
many years and it should know by
this time that the cost of catching
fish is only nominal and that when a
consumer pays 20 cents a pound for
fish there must be some one making
10 cents a pound on it that has no
business doing so. Perhaps this is
better shown in the section of New
York called Harlem" states Mr.. Fra
zier. Here we are compelled to pay
from Is to 18 cents a pound for frozen
fish that has been thawed out inwater
with a solution of soda to hurry the
work, while tons of fresh fish is ar
irving in New York every day. This
fresh fish is sold to the hotels patron
LIKED by the wealthy, while the work
ing people have TO eat the emhalmed
fish because they cannot afford to pay
exorbitant prices for it,
Mr.. Frazier says in his letter that
he intends to take this matter up with
4 the Congressman of New York and ask
them to help in securing nationaa
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