A contemporary editorializing on the subject of food profiteering, remarks:—It has already been confessed in official circles that Chinese dealers in foodstuffs are showing no scruples as regards high profits, and in the case of Vegetable dealers the word "extortion" has been used. It is to be hoped that official action will be taken in this regard, for some measures should be devised to break a ring which is causing a great deal of financial hardship.
If the authorities would only give one of the profiteers a sharp slap on the wrist we should feel that something was being done about it.
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