The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-11-15
THURSDAY, NovEMBEK IS, 1917.
The Kenosha MIX supply.


fluid in Kenosha regardless of the
agreements made by the Milk Producers
Association and the farmers. There
seems to be a desire to make Kenosha
exclusive, to isolate it from other trade
districts and slap on a price for this
food for the babies" which if it
does not bring dollars Of extra profits
into the pockets of the men who handle
the mill1--from the cow to the baby
is going to show incompetent manage
ment of these people.
Right now notice is served on these
gentlemen that Kenosha is going to
have the same consideration in the fix
ing Of milk prices as Racine, Chicago,
Milwaukee, Sheboygan and lot of
other places even if it is necessary to
fill up the jails with milk producers and
milk retailers The retailers claim that
the farmers are fighting shy of selling
milk to Kenosha retailers at the same
price that it is being sold in Chicago,
they say that Kenosha is part of the
Chicago District and on that account
that Kenosha must pay a cent or two
more per quart for milk than is paid in
Milwaukee or Racine, that it must pay
three cents or possibly four cents more
than people pay in Sheboygan and go
even little better when comparisons
are made with Manitowoc and points
further up the line.
Indications are that we'll defined
movement is ON to gouge the people of
Kenosha. Milk should sell in Kenosha
at the same price as it sells in Racine
not a cent higher and probably not a
cent lower. Conditions in the cities
along the lake shore are pretty nearly
identical. 1t does not cost any more
to feed horses in Kenosha than it does
in Racine. Tt does not cost any more
to buy gasoline in Kenosha than it does
in Chicago or Milwaukee. Presumably
man power can be purchased just as
cheaply here as in any of the cities
named and yet at the present time the
rate for milk in Kenosha--if you call
it twelve cents and the dealers are
making mighty effort to screw it up
to thirteen cents and keep it there
is cent higher than in the other cities.
Tt can not be claimed that Kenosha
has better milk supply than these
cities. Our own laboratory examine
items have shown that the milk supply
Of Kenosha is dirty. That no especial
care is taken in handling it, That baby
protection has been overlooked in the
protection of the profits of the retail
ers and the producer, and that when
the whole case against milk is summed
mp that there is no reason why Ke-
nosha should pay more for its milk than
Racine or Milwaukee, The local dealer
blames the farmer and the farmer turns
about and claims that the cost of dis
tribution is too great. Between the
two Of them Kenosha is being over
charged and some one has got to put
an end to it. 1t is to be preferred
that Kenosha gets it's rights without
filling up the Jail with farmers and
Il4lh OcdlOIn1 pue IL IL Is u6C6SSdTy 10
fill the jails let's go to it. Kenosha
has been sthe goat" long enough.
Lets get a goat-herder and 90 to it
and see if this continual discrimina-
ton against Kenosha can not be done
away with it.
In the past Kenosha people have been
willing to surrender their rights to
serve their conscience, but the time has
come to make stand and we might
just as well start with the milk as any.
thing else. Possibly if the District
Attorney gets well trained in batting
down the price of milk by iudicious
prosecutions he viii get the habit and
start after some other discrimination
which have been made against Kenosha
The thing to do is to have showdown
1t is hard to see that the price of milk
brought into Kenosha with a wagon
should be considerably more than the
cost of the same milk shipped down into
the heart Of Chicago or a train. 1t is
just as hard to see why the cost oil
distributing tulS A11Ih Oh the SIr6eJS
of Kenosba should be considerable
moro than the cost in Chicago, Racine
Milwaukee or Sheboygan. If the retail
milk dealers in Kenosha are not max
ing profits the men in the business il
these other cities must be postmaster.
in bankruptcy. The whole trouble il
that the people OF Kenosha have made
it easy for price fixers to get away
with il iii The past. The ease witt
which these price fixers have completed
their work has been drag on the en-
tire retail trade an Kenosha. People
have come to feel that in the retail
trade here they can not expect tht
same prices that they get in other
places aud this is the reason that hun
dreds of thousands of dollars Of money
which should be spent in Kenosha goes
to other cities.
Because thesmilE supply is something
that affects pretty nearly every one
makes it an excellent thing to start