DISCOVERED.
•> " It's a> plot," said Mr Blykins, as he crumpled the paper and threw it on the floor. "It's another scheme of monopoly to . fasten the yoke of power on. the people." "What are you talking about?" asked his wife. " This beef -monopoly ! I have detected the dastardly plot. It's part of a gigantic conspiracy. They are going to make meat so expensive that nobody can buy it." " Well, dear, we won't starve. We can eat vegetables." " There you are. They'll make us all herbivorous. They'll deny us the animal food which makes people energetio and resentful. They'll keep us on a vegetable diet until we're all so patient and goodnatured that we won't kick at anything they want to dol"
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7505, 12 September 1902, Page 3
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