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by "cornering" the markets they are enabled to force up the prices of the necessaries of life, to the great distress and often starvation of the poor; therefore, resolved, that we demand immediate action by
Congress, and the passage of such laws as shall forever prohibit gambling in the necessaries of life.
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Whereas, our boards of trade have become mere pool-rooms for the enrichment of their members, and whereas, by their manipulations of the markets they unsettle the values and nullify the law of supply and demand, so that producers do not receive legitimate prices for what they produce; and, whereas,
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Those resolutions were unanimously adopted and forwarded through county and State
Granges to the National Grange, where they were adopted and placed in the hands of the legislative committee of the Grange in
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