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New Zealand Tablet, 15 July 1920, Page 37

The passion for profit is the strong lever that raises the cost of living. The consumer is the victim of a national contempt for small returns and slow success. He cannot consistently complain because he adopts identically tho same methods when his turn comes to apply the screw All classes and conditions are infected with the* get-Hch-quick fever. We laugh at profits that satisfy merchants and investors in other countries. Is it any wonder that prices of foodstuffs are inordinate when every one who handles them, from the farmer to the last retailer, insists on a profit out of all proportion to -what he has a right to . demand. The Universe, Cleveland.