The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-08-23

A few are printed in this issue of ths
hlp-Saw Lack Of time help and
strength has prevented the Rip-Sav
reporters from giving such stories en-.
haustively in this issue. q
One thing that makes details bv II.
hlp.Saw hardly necessary at this time
Is the fact that both the local dail;e.
nave Deen converted to the cause Of
ene ultimate consumers and weaned
away from the welfare Of the Food
hogs, Profiteers and Hoarders. PAX
nc Inauguration is SO great that it is
NOT DeneVed either daily win lose much
aoVertslng. The objects of public
wrath very likely will hump their
packs to the storm and make the hest
OF it until the wind changes. IS =:
For some weeks, now, the kindly
old News Tribune, first editoriallv and
then IN its news columns, has exposed
the Food Hogs, Profiteers and Hoa ~
ers Even the Herald squirrel .admitaH
that potato prices are much heav;er
n Duluth than in Minneapolis. It must
not pc expected that the squirrel win,
become very rampant but the, Brair
Bingham may fire stBig Bert
ne2 and thsn, deIibefdSaly dpS
naaasf Anythi'
Herald. 8
Ransom Metcalfe, that sturdy cons
moner, ever has been on the side of
the hungry and the overcharged when
IT came to things mankind eats In
his issue of last week, Mr.. MetcalfeE
said in the Steel Plant News:
eff U. s. District Attorney Jaques
is desirous of obtaining testimony
that there is profiteering and combi.
nation in restraint Of trade on the
part of the food hogs of the city Of
Duluth let him read an advertisement
printed in the st. Paul Dispatch on
Thursday of last week by Schoch
grocery of that place and compare the
prices quoted therein with the prices
exacted by the Duluth food hogs and
he will have all the evidence that is
necessary to convince any sane man.
"This advertisement offered blue
berries in 16-box cases at $2.55; per
box, 16 cents. On the same day they
could not be bought at retail in Du-
luth for less than 30 cents a box.
"Schoch's advertisement offered
sweet corn at cents per dozen ears.
fon Tuesday evening last, Frank
Brand, the local grocer, made the
statement at the Commercial club
meeting that on that very day he had
been compelled to- pay % cents per
dozen to the Duluth Food Hog COM
bine and that he could not possibly
sell them for less than Is cents. On
the Friday previous when Schoch was
selling for 9 cents the price here was
80 cents.
"In the Schoch advertisement Gu
cumbers were offered at Is cents per
dozen, here they sold on the same day
at Is cents each. Other offerings
were: Apricots, per box, $1.19; Bart
lett pears, box, $1.39; apples, Iowa
Duchess, per barrel, $4.29; blue plums
and seedless grapes, per basket, Is
cents; tomatoes, per basket, l2h
cents; fresh eggs, As cents per dozen.
"on the day that potatoes sold
here for 80 cents per peck of Is
pounds, Schoch was selling 10 pounds
for 90 cents, which would make peck
cost AZ cents. ,. - '2s ~ - F
'Last week on, Tuesday the editor
paid 40 cents per pound for halibut
steak to a Duluth grocer. On Friday
Schoch sold halibut steak for 2S cents
per pound.
t'And so on throughout the entire
list. Practically everything adver-
tised was from so to 100 per cent
higher in Duluth on the same day.
UL. 8. Donaldson wrote to the Eve
ming Herald Wednesday stating that
he would furnish all the potatoes
needed in quantities at $1.50 to $l.7S
per bushel. Mr.. w. Gage Baldwin,
the head and apologist for the Food
Hog trust in Duluth, says it can't be
so. Schoch's advertisement shows that
it is SO and that it was SO on Friday
of last week. It is evident that Mr..
w. Gage Baldwin is not hampered
like G. Washington"