Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 201, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1914 — MOOS FOLGER ON HIGH PRICED MEAT [ARTICLE]

MOOS FOLGER ON HIGH PRICED MEAT

Toledo Packer' Declares That Beef is Plentiful and That Recent Advance Was Unwarranted.

Lafayette Journal. Jacob Folger, the Toledo backer, has some decided opinions about the advance in the price of meat. In an interview in the Toledo NewsBee he said: “If men want to gamble let them gamble in something else than necessities of life,” said Folger on Monday.' Folger refused last week to follow the lead of Chicago meat barons and take advantage of the war scare to get high prices for meat. Folger says such business methods are robbery. ‘Meat that the Chicago dealers would have been glad to sell for 12 and 14 cents a pound they sold last week for 25 cents,” said Folger. “I don’t believe in robbing people. “For a few days We were compelled to pay more for the meat from fche producers. We had to raise our price a little. But we were able to sell five cents lower than the Chicago men.” Folger says that meat prices are rapidly returning to normal. He sees no reason for a boost in meat prices. “There may be some excuse for the high price of sugar,” he said, ‘but sugar and meat are two different things. “On account of the new tariff there was a big reduction in the su ; gar beet crop in this country. But there is an abundance of meat.”