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THE MORNING OREGOXIAX, TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 1905.
MANY LAWS ARE
URGENTLY NEEDED
President May Insist on Ac
tion Before Congress
Adjourns.
WOULD PROLONG SESSION
Hoosevclt neirrfl Passage of Cur
rency Bill, Employers' Liability
Measure and Amendment of
the Anti-Trust Law.
OltEGONlAX NEWS BU-REAU. Wash
ington. March 23. It the Frc-idcnt be
comes involveil in a controversy with
Congress and insists unpon legislation
oilir-r than the necessary appropriation
Wll.. adjournment will not take place
by the n'iddle of May, as had been
planned by the leaders, but will be
postponed into June. The leaders in
Sonata and Houso. as is their custom
in the session precedins a Presidential
election, favor early adjournment, as
that enables them to shut off legisla
tion and thereby prevent the enactment
of laws that might be attacked in th
coming campaign.
Hut the President takes a very dif
ferent view, lie believes that the Re
publican party will be stronger before
the people if it enacts certain legisla
tion for which there is general demand,
tliau if Congress adjourns, leaving this
legislation for future consideration. .The
President thinks it wise to pass a cur
rency bill: he Is equally anxious that an
employers' liability law should be en
acted, conforming to the outlines laid
down by the Cnitcd States Supreme
Court, and he also wants the Sherman
anti-trust law so amended as to make
it more effective and less abusive. There
are. other bills pending in Senate and'
House, which he wants to see go
through, for it is his belief that this
legislation is right, and. being generally
favored, should be enacted without un
necessary delay.' He properly insists that
there is no lack of time -in which to con
sider and perfect such legislation, and
therefore no legitimate excuse for re
fusing to act.
IVrtsin it Is that unless the President
does take hold and insist on action. Con
gress will adjourn at the earliest possible
day. after enacting the leant possible
legislation. The view of tile leaders does
not coincide witli the view of the Presi
dent, but the President reflects the senti
ment of the country, and therefore his
position is strong. Onoe the President in
sists upon action, there will bo activity
' in tVtngress, for the people will back the
President and will be very likely to pun
ish those men who may be responsible
for the failure of those hills which are
almost universally desired.
The Aldrich financial bill, as amended,
will probably become a law. whether the
Iresident insists or not. He has let it
be known that he wants this bill passed,
not because he believes it a perfect meas
ure., but because he believes It a step in
the right direction, and probably the only
liuancial bill that can he enacted this ses
sion. The Senate will pass it, and the
House will follow suit, though it may
make some changes, for the Speaker is
committed to the Aldrich bill, and the
Speaker hn the power to put it through
the House. Few men In the House arc
sufficiently educated on the financial ques
tion to determine whether the Aldrich
hill is good or had. and once it is made a
party measure, it can be railroaded
through in short order.
Just what would happen to an employ
ers' liability bill, if the President said
nothing. Is a matter of conjecture. There
hns been little interest manifested In
such a bill, though several arc pending,
and House and Senate committees have
been giving them sonic consideration. The
probabilities arc that such a bill would be
lost in the House unless the President
carno forward and insisted upon its pas
sage. In the Senate committee, the
Ia Kollette hill is being shaped up. and if
it can be reported, without being smoth
ered with amendments, it may . go
through. The House committee is making
slower progress, but it can be jogged
into activity if hc President deems it ad
visable to take a hand.
There are oilier labor bills which the
-President would like to see enacted be
foi adjournment, among them a bill
making the Government liable for the in
juries or its employes.
In view of the fact that the railroads
of the country contemplate making a
general advance In freight and passenger
vales, unusual importance attaches to the
Fulton bill providing that no interstate
rate shall be advanced, where complaint
Is made, until the Interstate Commerce
Commission shall hold such advance to
he reasonable. In view of the fact that
the Commission unanimously favors this
lill. with an amendment giving them dis
cretion in determining what advances
shall be allowed without hearing, and
what shall lie suspended pending deter
mination of their reasonableness, the
President also favors the bill, and would
like to see It enacted.
If this hill is not passed, and the rail
roads undertake a general advance In
their rates. they will attribute the
advance to legislation enacted under the
Kcpublican administration, and this as
sertion will lo seized upon by the Demo
.rats for politicat purposes. The fact is
tha; the railroads are prospering under
present rates, but want to embarrass
Roosevelt, and would go to any ex
treme to accomplish their purpose. From
political, as well as a practical stand
point, the Kutton bill becomes a measure
of the utmost importance, and with
PresldentiaJ backing, may become a law
If Congress Is kept in session until it
"does something."
The Senate Interstate Commerce Com
mittee. Iiea. led by Senator BIkins. is
hostile to all railroad legislation, and
mill undertake to block the Fulton bill,
ilong with all other railroad legislation.
The attitude of this committee raises the
question, whether the railroads or the
people are to dominate Congress. The
President realizes the seriousness of per
mitting Congress to be dominated by the
Interstate carriers, and in view of his
snxlety for the nomination and election
f Taft, it is reasonable to expect him
lo "get busy'' and apply pressure to the
-allroad-riddon Interstate Commerce Com
mittee. Stephen R. Klkins. chairman.
A red-hoi menage would have the
desired elTeet; therefore a red-hot mes
sage is looked for In the near future.
The minute that message goes In, the
aforesaid Stephen B. Klkins will be
gin to disclaim that he is under the
domination of tile railroads, and will
look about for ways of securing action
In his committee. Klkin Is a tool of
the railroads, bnt he cowers when
President Koosevelt goes after him
with the big stick. Once Elklns puts
grease on the wheels of the Interstate
Commerce committee, he may get ac
tion on the l-'ulton bill: on a "bill modi
fving the Sherman anti-trust act so
s to permit the formation of combina
tions which are not in restraint of
tiade. but are realty in the interest of
th public, and he may ad4 to the list
a bill Increasing the power of the Fed- f
eral Government over interstate roads.
The leaders in Congress are all-powerful
under the average administration.
They frame up such legislation as they
themselves favor, and kill off every
thing else. But under President Roose
velt, their powers are somewhat cur
tailed, and whenever they undertake
to block desirable legislation, either
because of their own biased views or
for some ulterior motive, they find
themselves crossing swords with the
most fearless fighter, who ever went
into the White House. The President
is eternally fighting on the side of the
people, against "the interests." That
is what makes him strong, and that is
why. In the long -run, he gets what he
goes after. If the President deter
mines to force a fight with the Con
gressional leaders. Congress will re
main in- session until some time. In
June, and it will not adjourn until It
"'docs something." .
SUIT'S OBJECT NOT MONEY
Official Says State Seeks to Cancel
Irrigation Contract.
T. W. Clark, vice-president and
manager of toe Columbia Southern Ir
rigating Company, yesterday made the
following statement in regard to a suit
filed by the state against its prede
cessors in interest, the Three Sisters
Irrigation Company, the Columbia
Southern Irrigation Company and W.
A. Laid law:
In yesterday morning's issue or The Ore
SonJan. it is Ftaated that the suit
is brouffht to recover $200,000, of which it
is chareert the farmers in Crook County
have been defrauded by these irrigation
r hemes, and stating that the demurrer to
the complaint of W. A. Laidlaw was over
ruled by the court.
The latter statement with reference to
the overruling of the demurrer Is true, but
th suit Is not to recover $200,000 or any
other sum. and it is not charged in the
complaint that the farmers of Crook County
or any one has been defrauded oC that sum
or any other sum. The suit is to set aside
the contract between the state and the irri
gation companies for alleged fraud in one
of the companies in procuring it, and there
Js no charge in it that any one had been
defrauded out of any money at all.
There Is a vague allegation in the com
plaint that Laidlaw had received large sums
of money, amount not stated, and from
whom or what source Is not stated, which
he should have applied to irrigation purposes
but did not. This latter vague statement
Is the only thing in the complaint said
about money.
It Is further stated in the published article
referred to that the "state allowed $14.75
per acre for putting water on the land."
That the "promoters had sold $18,000 on this
basis, when the farmers had the court stop'
the sale. ' two years ago, claiming only
$iO.OOO had been spent for their benefit.
These latter statements are all true, with
the exception that the state did not allow
a charge of $14. 7a per acre for putting water
on the land. The charge, or lien, allowed
under the contract was $10 per. acre and
that the promoters had sold 18,000 acres on
this basis.
In fact they never sold or pretended to
sell or could have sold any of the land, be
cause they did not own any of it and could
not sell it. What they did do was. to accept'
applications for the purchase of these lands
as the law and the contract with the state,
under which they were acting, provided they
should do. The purchase could only be
made from the state after "thcappltcants
had paid the charge of $10 per acre for
reclamation. The farmers did not have
the court stop the sale two years ago,
or at any pther time, and the court never
did stop anything at any time, and there
never was any claim in court that only
$10,000 or any other sum had been spent
for .the benefit of the farmers. ' .
As I am now the vice-president and man
ager of Columbia Southern Irrigation Com
pany, I deem it my duty to the company
and to the public to make this statement,
correcting the misstatements in the article
referred to. and to ask the public to with
hold its opinion until the suit now pending
ts disposed ot.
OFFICIALS MAKE DENIAL
Police Head in. Xcw York Says
Liquor Law Not Violated.
'ALBANY.-X. Y.. March 23. Mayor Mc
Clellan and Police Commissioner Bing
ham, of New York, today filed with Gov
ernor Hughes their answers to Le
charges recently filed against them hy
the Rev. Charies R. Parkhurst. as presi
dium of the Society lor the Prevention of
Crime of Xcw York City. Both officials
entered a dental of the charges, which al
lege that they ermitted flagrant viola
tions of the liquor tax law.
Mayor McClellan said: "As Commis
sioner Bingham's commanding officer X
am responsible for all his actions of omis
sion or commission in so far as I may be
charged with knowledge of his actions.
Any blame that is his ts equally mine."
Should the Governor think that the
Commissioner has done his duty, the
Mayor asks him to dismiss the charges
against both, and adds:
'Should you. on the other hand, believe
that he has failed to do his duty and that
I have had knowledge of that failure,
then I shall haev no disposition to shirk
Lniy share of the responsibility."
V. ommissioncr Bingham, in his answer,
denies "each and eevry allegation of mis
conduct or inefficiency or neglect of dut
or violation of oath of office."
ASK EXTRADITION OF ROY
Husband of Glat-ia Calla Must An
swer to Charge of Murder.
PARIS. March 23. A formal request for
the extradition of Paul Roy to the United
States was received at the American Em
bassy " this afternoon from Washington,
it was subsequently turned over to the
French Foreign Office.
Roy is a Frenchman, who married an
American woman known as Glaeia Calla.
and who has been accused by the latter
of killing her brother, George A. CaAins,
on January 2. vat Newington. X. H. After
the death of Carkins Roy returned to
Paris, where he still resides. The an
swer of France has not yet been framed.
Mover and Pettibone Better.
SAN DIEGO. Cal.. March 23. Ac
cording to reports from St. Joseph's
Sanitarium. Charles H. Moyer. presi
dent of the Western Federation of
Miners, Is slightly better, and danger
of pneumonia is past. The condition
of George A. Pettibone. who has been
a putient at St. Joseph's four days, was
reported as improving.
Oklahoma Robbers Arrested.
F.N ID. Okla.. March 23 Jim Lee and
Lee KUerick were arrested here last
night on the charge of robbing the
Hotfman Bank at Huffman, Okla.. last
Thursday night. At the time of the
robbery it was supposed to have been
done by the same men who robbed the
Tyro (Kansas) Bank.
lioekefellers Start for Richmond.
AUGUSTA, G.. March 3. John D.
Rockefeller, accompanied by his wife,
secretary and other members of his'
family, left Augusta today for Rich
mond. Ya.
Victoria. B. 1. T.elterR of administration
were granted to.iay to Sir?. Chart Fre-d-nmtl.
widow nf the paniblr murdprftl two
ks aao. The r-naf i: valued at S10.00.
half of which jnfs t,i the widow, "who i
a San Franclwo woman, and half to the
dead mail's lather la Boston,
GAR HAS LEAD
QF 800 MILES
American Machine in .New
York-to-Paris Race Far
Ahead of Competitors.
ITALIAN CAR BREAKS DOWN
Must Go Back 100 Miles to Ogdcn
to Have Break in Frame Ke-
paired French and German
Cars Are in Wyoming.
OGDBX, ITtah, March 23. The American
New York-to-Paris car left Fresno, Cal..
at 2:55 P. M. and intended to Stop for the
night at Gilroy. SO miles from San Fran
cisco. The Italian ear. although 9S Wiles west
of Ogden, must retrace that distance to
have a fracture of its frame repaired.
The French car is between Marston and
Granger. Wyo.
The Gorman car passed Rook River at i
o'clock P. M. and should easily reach
Medicine Bow, Wyo., tonight.
The Italian car is practically only 15S
miles ahead of the French and 370 miles
ahead of the German car, while the Amer
ican machine has a leaid of SOU miles.
SAX JOSB, Cal., March 23. A commit
tee of local automobilists has gone to Gil
roy, 30 miles south, in an emTeavor to
prevail upon the Amertcan contestant In
the New York-to-Paris race to put up
here for the night. The car had not
reached Gilroy at 10 P. M.
FOR IDE. 12
STANFORD STTOEXTS WILL
LIKELY BE EXPELLED.
Have One More Chance if Appeal
to President Jordan Is Heard
Favorably Committee Firm.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY. Cal.,
March 23. Little progress 'was made
in clearing up the student situation
today. The students presented an apol
ogy signed by the 247 paradcre. The
committee on student affairs completed
its investigation and is now consider
ing the testimony of each individual
parader. Chairman Clark says there ts
no chance of a decision being reached
before tomorrow on these cases. To
day he stated that in his opinion there
was no chance of revocation, in the
case of the original 12 students sus
pended. Indications are that some of
the 247 also will be dismissed. The
students will take no action until the
committee reports.
The students have not yet ' played
their last card. The 12 men who are
already suspended have another move
to make just as soon as it is quite
evident that the committee headed by
Professor Arthur B. Clark does not pro
pose to reconsider their cases and
soften the sentence, which they regard
as extreme. The move they will make
will be a direct, positive and legal
proposal to the president of the univer
sity. Dr. David Starr Jordan. The lat
ter, under the written organization of
the faculty, must pass in review the
action of the committee and give his
own formal answer to the appeal of
the students.
Just what action President Jordan
will take the petitioners are not pre
pared to say. Appreciating the fact
that in the past his attitude has gener
ally been to uphold the committee, they
still claim that the circumstances of
the present case as so unusual as to
compel him to go over the matter very
carefully before announcing his de
cision. .
DECLARES IT A NUISANCE
Another Objector to Proposed South
Portland Slaughter-Honse.
PORTLAND, Or.. March 19. (To the
Kditor.) As a resident of South Port
land for the past 20 years, and engaged
in business there all that time, I know
what a packing-plant or slaughter
house means for the district In which
it Is located.
If, as stated by the representative of
the Schwartzschild & Sulzberger Pack
ing Company, that they will slaughter
25.000 cattle every week, the refuse
from this enormous number of cattle
more than 4000 daily (six days per
week) dumped into the Willamette
River above the city, will turn the
waters, of our- beautiful Willamette
red with gore. AH the eddies along
the shore will fill with the refuse and
become vile-smelling, germ-breeding
death-traps. This refuse will float
under -the wharves of our city and not
only send up a nauseating smell, but
will feed thousands of rats, that may at
any time spread the bubonic plague
throughout the community.
Riverview Cemetery, which is lo
cated south of where the new corpor
ation desires to locate, is reached only
by passing within a few hundred feet
of this proposed slaughter-house, and
It would be a great nuisance for these
passing in carriages, paying the last
tribute to departed friends. Cattle
being driven along the road at aM times
of the day will frighten .horses caus
ing thefn to plunge, shy and often run
away. The driving of cattle at all
times of the day would be necessary,
for the plant only covers about three
acres of land, and to kill 4000 cattle
dally would require a drove on the road
at ail times.
For these reasons, our Councilmen
should not grant anyone the privilege
to maintain a slaughter-house above
the city, on one of our beautiful drive
ways. Riverside drive Is onr ' of the
most picturesque In the world, winding
along the river, skirting the evergreen
hills. This drive, to tourists, with the
roses along our thoroughfares. Is a
memory dear to many.
Don't let us have slaughter-houses
among the homes of our fair citv.
W. L. MAHER.
Prominent Man Indicted.
SAN JQSB. Cal.. March ' 23. Jackson
Hatch, for years one of the most promi
nent and" popular lawyers in Santa Clara
County, and past exalted ruler of the
Klks. was today indicted by the Santa
Clara County grand jury on charges of
embezzlement in the sum of F17.07M5. The
money is alleged to have been obtained
from the Sase estate.
Hanao shoes at Rosenthal a
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Children May Not Participate
in Rose Festival.
EXCUSE IS LACK OF TIME
Board of Education Thinks Pupils
Slionld Xot Be Taken From
Studies to Go Through
Xeeessary Drills.
Director J. V. Beach alone dissenting,
the Board of Education last, night adopt
ed the report of its special committee
which recommended unanimously that
the public school children of the city be
not permitted to participate In the Rose
Festival parade next June. This commit
tee consisted of City Superintendent Rig
ler and Mrs. L. W. Sitton, a member of
the Board of Education.
In submitting the report. Superintend
ent Rlgler said that the subject of tak
ing part In the street parade had been
considered at a meeting that was attend
ed by 38 of the 42 principals employed in
the public schools of the city. When a
vote was taken. 35 of those present voted
against parading, two favored the plan
and one was undecided. With such a
unanimous expression from the school
principals, the. committee felt that it
could make no other report.
District Clerk Allen was Instructed to
notify the Rose Festival management
that its invitation to participate in the
parade had been declined. Chairman
Wittenberg maintained that it -was not
within the authority of the Board of Ed
ucation to require teachers and pupils
to take part in any such public exhibi
tion. Director Beach favored a reason
able participation by the school children
in the floral parade, bur- he 'would not
consent to such an extensive and elabo
rate demonstration as that of last year's
rose show.
The members of the Board are not
averse to public school children volun
teering their services In the proposed pa
rade, but they wiil not consent to have
the work of drilling the children thrust
on the teachers and principals in addi
tion to their present duties. Xo serious
objection would be made by the Board if
the Rose Festival management can se
cure the services of the children, pro
vide a drillmaster and train the young
sters outside- of school hours and with
out interfering with their studies.
State Salaries Unchanged, y
Ol.TMPIA. Wash., March ;3. (Spe
cial.) The Board o Control today
PUD
DISFAVOR
What the Confidence
of Women Will Do
Three times recently has the price
-i of The Ladies' Home Journal been
increased; the magazine has passed
through a financial depression without
harm, yet in not a single month for four
years and a half has its circulation even
touched the million mark. $ Each
-edition has exceeded a million; this
April Number is
1,100,000 Copies
During these four years and a half it
-has printed and actually sold over 56
millions of magazines. This without
sample copies, premiums, gifts or
clubbing. Every copy bought at its
full price. The reason is simple: The
Ladies' Home Journal has the confi
dence of American women.
THe Curtis' Publishing Company
- Philadelphia
fixed salaries for the year beginning
April 1. next for all state institutions
at practically the same salaries' now
paid. There are few minor increases.
The position of assistant superintend
ent was created for the state training
school on account of great increase in
the number of Inmates, and it was de
cided to employ a female night watch
at the Penitentiary, particularly to
guard women committed under the
criminal Insane act.
LABOR IN POLITICS.
Mr. SI addon Wants an Entirely "ew
Deal for Toilers. '
PORTLAND, March 23. (To the Edi
tor.) In a lecture the other evening, a
celebrated divine gave advice to us, as
working men and women that many of
us are not ready to accept without con
troversy. Divine oracles may, perhaps,
be best qualified to point the route to the
hazy regions of perpetual bliss and ec
stasy to the few who are to be chosen,
but I maintain that he who earns his
bread by the sweat of his brow is well
able to reason out for himself the cor
rect attitude for his organization to adopt
to better material and worldly conditions,
without the guidance or intervention of
any 20th .century Moses to pilot the way
and steer a safe course around the peril
ous rocks of modernism.
If citizenship is worthy ambition, then
political action should neither be a dang-er
to an individual nor a collectivity of in
dividuals or citizens. The Standard Oil
Company, the railroad corporations, and,
in fact, every great industrial organiza
tion in the United States, are actively en
gaged in politics. The Ministerial Asso
ciation, the Y. M. C. A., the different tem
perance societies, our mothers and sisters
have gone into politics. The Catholic
Church has always been in politics. Then,
why not we?
The Catholic Church at one time, before
the internecine wars, owned two-thirds
of Europe. It has shaped policies of Na
tions and made and unmade Kings, writ
ten laws and abrogated them, and yet is
not disrupted.
The ballot is a power which. If property
and collectively used by unions or organ
izations of working men. will be re
spected by Legislatures, Congresses and
even Supreme Courts, applauded by
honest men and -feared by rascals. The
power of the great corporations today
lies in their organized and systematized
movements on the political field. They
have not become - disrupted and disor
ganized through that action. They make
laws with their legislators, enforce them
with their governors (West. Virginia,
Pennsylvania, etc.) and executives and set
them aside when they have outlived their
usefulness to them with their judiciary.
An injunction is granted by many courts
as an ordinary favor to these corpora
tions.' It has been pointed out by those who
have most to gain by the acceptance of
this theory that representatives of the
wage -workers elected to office would sell
them out, betray them. Well, even if
they did. that would be no worse than
giving themselves away. But I would
deny that theory, in toto. The corpora
tions have sent their agents into the par
liaments of the nations and without ex
ception these agents have been true to
their trusts in the double meaning)..
These agents knew that if they wished
the positfon back, or ever expected to
rise higher, that they must do the bid-
ding of those who put them there. And
so it will be when the unions go into
politics.
The church, for many long and weary
centuries, has assumed the lead for the
poor devil who was cursed with the "an
cient taint of labor." Most of the time
he was denied a soul. He has been suc
cessively a slave, a serf, a villein. He
was the food for the gladiatorial sports
of Roman Emperors and his children are
the food for the cotton milts today. The
church has walked him around in a cir
cle. With the beating of tom-toms, the
burning of incense, the clanging of gongs,
the bobbing of heads and the bending of
knees, it has mystified and misled him
It has pointed to the nebulous regions of
the dim unknown and promised him eter
nal happiness for the surrender of his
reason.
- But the day is passing. The working
man challenges the priest. Man asks
the gods why? Modernism is here. From
the supplications of anxious wives and
the cries of the babies of the toilets,
come the awakening of the need of po
litical power for the worker. He asks
for bread and you hand him a stone; he
begs to clean your streets, dig your sew
ers, do your most menial work to keep
him and his family from starving, and
your councils turn him down. But "he
is many: you are few." His ballot is a
power- that means peace for his wife,
food for his children and justice for all
when properly used. He has allowed the
statesman, the priest, the politician to
lead him long. He must lead himself,
vote himself and rule himself.
THOMAS SLADDEX.
USES EMPLOYMENT BUREAU
Burlington Inaugurates New System
In Hiring Its Men.
cial.) The management of the Chicago.
Bl'RLJNGTON. Ia March 23. (.Spe
Burllngton & Quincy is reducing the em
ployment of Its men to an exact science.
It has established an employment bureau,
the duty of which is to hire or reject all
applicants for positions with the railroad.
It Is under the direct supervision of Dan
iel Willard, second vice-president of the
company.
This department was started Jan
uary 1, and proved a success from the
beginning. At first the labor unions
were disposed to look upon it as a
cloak for a black list, but they have
come to see the benefits, and now offer
no objections to it. The bureau has
charge. of hiring all but the unskilled
labor, and keeps track of all the ap
plicants on a special blank, giving all
the Information desirable regarding
age. previous experience, etc. If an
applicant has already been hired by the
employment officer before the bureau
has reported on him. It is expressly
understood that this employment is
only temporary, so that the bureau,
acts as a sort of court of appeals.
The department is. also carrying on
another work that is resulting In bet
ter service. That is the bringing about
of a better understanding between the
men and their employers. J. N". Red
fern, superintendent of the bureau, has
been In the habit of goinfr from on
place to another on the line and talking
to the men. telling them what the
policies of the company are and how
they can help in carrying them out. He
is trying to break down any feeling
that the men may have of a superior
ity on the part of the officials and to
Instill into them the idea that they
have a part in the success or failure ot
the company.
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8-'M a; all first-class earns and br jobbers.
WM. LANAHAN & SON. Baltimore, Md.
FRCP ABED INSTANTLY. Simolv add hoil-
injt water, cool and serve. 19c per package at
ail grocers. 3 flavors. Refuse all substitutes.