At a luncheon of the Rotary Club, old in the Lexington Hotel yesterday, 15 Holland, field representative of the American Fair Trade League, of New York, delivered an address in advocacy of the Stovons-Ashurst bill, now before Congress. The organization represented by Mr. Holland is working for the passage of the bill, which will insure the sale of trade-marked goods by retailers at a standard manufacturer's price.

"Cut prices have always been the weapon of monopoly," declared Mr. Holland. "Trusts have been built up by cutting the prices below cost to give out a competitor. So general has his practice been that laws have been passed in many States to forbid it. These laws require manufacturers to sell at uniform prices in all towns in the State, with such variations as are used to equalize freight rates."

Mr. Holland called attention to the work of the large mail-order concerns, which, he said, aimed to drive out small businesses by the same method of price cutting. If some method is not soon found to prevent their practice, the whole retail business of the country will come into the hands of a few small firms in the largest cities. The speaker, "The measure is political and social as well as commercial," said the advocate. "It concerns all of us as consumers, because the consumer is the most vitally interested."  In advertising and the square deal in handling.
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