City Council Squeezes Out the Public Market

The grocery trust has at last captured the city council and succeeded in taking steps that it is expected will kill the public market on D Street. This market was started in the late summer, and even at that, it put a severe crimp in the grocery trust and did much to break the backbone of the combine which was stifling competition of food stuffs. The market has struggled along all winter, the stallkeepers doing the best they could under adverse conditions to try to establish the market firmly by the time spring should arrive with its flood of fresh vegetables and fruits. The time is about here for the people to begin to reap the benefits, and now the city council has succumbed to the influence of the grocery combine and proposes to wipe out the whole thing. To remove the shed at this time of year simply means that the stallkeepers will have to stand in the rain and display their wares, and customers will have to stand in the rain while they shop. They simply will not do it. Councilmen Rankin and Lynn have led the fight to kill the market, and so the people are to be turned back into the clutches of the grocery combine.