Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1910 — THE FOOD TRUST AND HIGH PRICES. [ARTICLE]

THE FOOD TRUST AND HIGH PRICES.

The .worst-'of the trust which have grown up under the unwise policies of the Republican party ■the i<*od trust, it ■ perates berwet n t v producers and the con--mrier- of foodstuffs. Its member- grow c instantly richer ■ whiic fho.-e wh > produce make •e profit arid those who consume pay er >rmou~ prices. In n* > tiller country on earth arc the food -r.pplie? suffered to be monopolize*! as t'hey are in the United-States. Meat, fowls, fish, eggs, butter, vegetable- and fruit —in fact all of the vital necessities- —-are coinr*-Ik 4 , by the pack- • ers and cold storage people and ; doled out to the people at their own prices. As the Indianapolis News says. "When there is a drop in the prices of raw food Che consumer does not get the ; benefit. Farmers are getting onej fifth to one-sixth less for cattle and hogs than they got last winter, but the consumer has had jno reduction. Milk goes up in price at the time of year when jit should be cheapest. Eggs present the same condition. The conclusion is that there is so much money in handling food and so little in raising it trial a skilled, rich and powerful class of food middlemen has developed.’ They have not only developed, hut they run things their own way without any real effort being made to prevent their exactions.