Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1898 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

forming an organization by which shall be fixe 1 the pric s which retail grocers may charge. Great trusts, controlling staple grocer ies, like sugar, coffee, starch, crackers and canned goods, fix the prices which the wholesalers may chargela this connection the New York Journal says: "With the progress of this system of organization and centralization of commerce and industry all of theevils and none of the great compensating ad vantages of the sociaistic state as de scribed by Bellamy will surround the “free” American citizen “The consumer will have to buy his groceries at the highest price the trusts dareiexact.for no r.jtailer will venture to sell for less The retail grocer will have no freedom either as buyer or seller, his price! in both capacities being fixed by the monopo.’y for which he is pr etically only au agent on commission-” But the most detestable of all trusts is the gold conspiracy If the producers of the world permit the gold conspira y to succeed 1 will mean a constant fall in the wages of labor The men who control the gold supply will control the destinies of the world Bimetallism is the-chief hope of Jhe producing mi’.lions —the wealth make’s of the world