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poor people in New York City as Avell as a few rich ones 

 and a lot that would be rich. 



Mr. Dillon made complaint to the Attorney-General's 

 office, and that Attorney-General's office had heard of your 

 humble servant and engaged me to assist them in that in- 

 vestigation. Well, we started the investigation where a 

 business man would start it, right where he thought the 

 trouble Avas. 



We asked them to bring in their contracts for the prev- 

 ious year, all the contracts they had to buy and sell, and the 

 contract showed that they had bought flour before the war 

 broke out in July and August, sufficient flour to run them 

 cne year, so it was not necessary, on account of the price of 

 flour, to raise the price of bread. They did not like to have 

 that published, because they stood pretty well with the 

 public in New York City, but the newspapers Avere there 

 and they tell the public Avhat is going on sometimes and 

 crooked people never like to have the public know that they 

 are crooked. However, we kept the newspapers full of it. 



We got Joe Leiter on from Washington to tell us how 

 there was about 1,000 times as much Avheat sold per month 

 in Chicago for future delivery and any other old delivery 

 as there was produced in a year in this country and Canada 

 rMid all the rest of the world combined, and he said some- 

 times it Avas a very fascinating game but he had had all he 

 cared to pay for of that pleasure and had retired from the 

 business. 



We investigated further and found out that they had 

 been getting over some A'ery scientific men from Germany 

 fUid elscAvhere Avho had developed the ability to put 51% of 

 ■>\ater in a loaf of bread. Your mother and my mother 

 could get only 30% or 35% of Avater in their bread Avhen 

 they did their level best. 



At the end of a fcAv Aveeks they came to us and said, 

 ''You people are creating a terrible furor in the ncAvspa- 

 {lers; Ave have had a meeting, and if you Avill shut up, Ave 

 Avill ]mt the price of bread back to five cents a loaf and 



