Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 247, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1919 — WAS ALWAYS POPULAR GAME [ARTICLE]

WAS ALWAYS POPULAR GAME

Those Who Think There. I« Anything New In Profiteering Have Another Guess Coming. The high cost of living was just as rune!) a problem fn Elizabethan ftmes as it is today. The Rev. William Harrison, as quaint a gossip as Pepys, and equally gifted as a chronicler, complained that magistrates in his day winked at merchants who charged more for commodities than they were permitted by law to charge. In that day. as in this, “bodgers”—this delightfullydescriptive word Is of the doml.nie's own coining—were allowed “to up corn and raise the price of it; to carry It home unsold, or to a distant market, if they want more money than the buyer likes to pay; nay, .they’ve leave to export it for the benefit of enemies abroad, so as to make nioreprofit. j —Du ring—the world wartherewaiL 1 pinch talk of certain Americans who 1 deliberately destroyed carloads of potatoes, cabbages and other vegetables and foodstuffs in order to raise the prices'of these commodities. Same old story. - There’s nothing new, remarks J. N. H„ In Rochester Post-Express. Again, to hark back to good Canon Harrison, “pesteriferpus purveyors buy up eggs, chickens, bacon, etc.; butter men travel about and buy up butter at farmers' houses, and have raised its price from 18d to 40d a gallon. These things are 'ill for the buyer and the poor man, and should not beTiHowed. After all about the only thing that is true is that there Is no new thing under the sun. Like the poor, the profiteer is always with us.