Milford chronicle., 1922-11-10

EVERY FARMER, NIARKKET, GARDENER, FRUIT
GROWER and live stock the unwarranted and
extoronate prices often charged consumers dairy
farm, garden and orchard products They know these
prices often several hundred per cent than they
receive for the products They know they any
way responsible for this proteering although is rep
resented to the consumer that they They be-
Of this Misrepresentation the farming classes
njusty regarded by many people to be class of rob
bers who getting rich at the expense of the buying
public
Exactly the "game" is being worked in connec-
on with the tariff has been worked these many years
in connection with prices charged consumers farm pro-
ducts These interests which the real profteers,
which thrive and fatten by charging the all the
traffic will bear and seek to escape responsibility by shift
ing the blame to else the who
claiming the tariff will necessitate tremendous increase
in retail prices
They going to charge the all they think
he will stand and attribute the increased charges the
tariff rather than to their inordnate greed and their
ability in many cases. to "get away with it." If "robber
prices charged the American consumer they can
no more be attributed justly to the protective tariff than
the exortonate prices charged the for farm
products and the blame attributed to the farmer.
The consumer is aware that there certain inter
ests which never let opportunity go by prices
If there report of late cold snap there imme
diae boost in prices of food fruit and canned goods
upon the ground that all the seasons prospective crop
killed and there is bound to be scarcity. there is
threatened Taroad Strlke, prices are boosted upon the
plea that there may be such suspension of transportation
that it will be impossible to keep up normal supply
goods If there is coal strike prices are boosted not
Whstanding the fact that there may be immense guam
tity of coal in storage Illustrations could be multiplied
indefinitely The American is perfectly of
these abuses He is perfectly that the
helpless victim Of this indesfensible practice.
In great many these interests which have al
ways seized opportunity and to increase
prices in order to enrich themselves launching
price boosting campaign the plea that the protective
tariff makes it necessary for them So The purpose
of the interests in promoting this campaign is to enrich
themselves The purpose of the Democratic party pro-
noting this campaign is to make political capital which
they hope will reap them reasonable returns in the way of
increase representation Congress- The profteer-
ing interests and the Democratic party working hand
and glove the first to blk public and the second to
claim that such bng necessary under protective tar
m and the peoples hope of relief through election
tariff and re-enact free trade.
The proof that new tariff duties will not necessi-
tate an increase in retail prices furnished by
mics of the tariff bill themselves They claim on one hand
that the duties will not more than S400
100000 statement which is approximately
Then they claim that the duties will add 900
the living of the country This makes the
increase in living COSTS which they attribute to the tariff
700 per cent than all the tariff duties combined OBJ
viousy increase in retail prices Of 900 can
not be charged against tariff duties which amount to
only $4OOOOOO00 1t is the story with which the far
mer and the already familiar an arbitrary
boosting OF prices between the time goods leave the
ducer and the time they consumer so that the
is charged hundred per cent more for
the goods than the producer paid for them.