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mmmmimmmmmmmmmm THE PUBLIC FORUM FAKING ON SEEDS. Spring is here and with it will come, as usual, the waste of thousands of dollars on seeds, shrubs, trees arid -plants. Seeds and plants of all kinds are sold to people who are ignorant of their care and culture. Showrooms and windows are stocked with plants of great beauty to draw suckers into buying, at fancy prices, things -which even experienced growers could not grow with success, except under the most favorable and costly conditions. ' John Morley, 3355 N. Hamlin Av. CO-OPERATION. Co-operation. Why do people shy from the word? Why do we wage slaves refuse to use it? Don't the trusts use it? Don't it make a trust mighty? Wouldn't it make us mighty? What is there about it to sneer at? The trusts have a publicity game of dangling the idea of competition before your eyes. Can't you see back of it? Don't the State street stores co-operate? Don't the pack ing houses co-operate? And the law of our government can't bust the trust. Co-operation makes a trust I think it is high time that we were on a little plain of co-operation our selves. The logical facts are staring you in the face that conditions are going to force you to co-operate. T. Hamilton Webster, Berwyn. LAND AND PRICES. Farm land increased in value 117 per cent be tween 1900 and 1910. In the past four years farm lands have gone up another 25 per cent, according to government reports. Surely, this must cause an increase in the price of farln products. In fact, everything produced on land will be higher in price as a result of higher land prices. High land prices also cause too many people to look to the city for employment, who, if good land were cheap, would make their living on a homestead. If land were not mo nopolized by speculators there would be thousands of such opportunities. Result, no man would accept a job in the city unless he was well paid. If you think this is theory, read the early history of our new country and you will find that wages were high as long as land was free and declined as land became dear. Low wages cannot be blamed on the em- ployer. They are human and will take advantage of law labor prices, just the same as the workingman will try to get all he can. When reformers cease blaming successful business men for social evils and look a little deeper we will begin to make progress. A tax sys tem which would make speculative land holding forever unprofitable would at one stroke solve the ques-" tion of high living cost and low wages, Call it single tax or what you will. J. Weiler, 1736 N. Rockwell. BITING HAND THAT FEEDS. "Don't bite the hand that's feeding you." This is a line in a popular song. Every man, whether he is a property owner or renter, is enther a direct or an indirect taxpayer. Taxes are what pay the wages of all men holding po litical positions. Every time wage earners go on a strike to better wages or working conditions the judge who issues the injunction against them, the sheriff and the chief of police and their assistants who enforce this in junction are biting the hand that is feeding them. For their pay comes from the men on strike. At the Corn Products Co. at Argo the laborers went on strike for more ) money. They were receiving 17 cts. per hour or $44.20 a month. The average family of six requires 540 meals a month. Allowing $14 for rent, for light and fuel and $5 for shoes and clothing for a whole fam ily, we have a fixed expense of $24 for a month, not allowing anything to go to a show, read a book, belong MiilfeliiiiiiiliMM