The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-02
IT IS COMING TO THEM.

IT sure is coming to the food hoarders and
Spectators in necessities required Tor the
sustenance of life. A stringent amendment TO
the Gore bill, making it felony to hoard 1ooa
Iproducts or to resort to any scheme 10 create q
shortage, has been adopted by the United
States senate The bill is designed to stimulate
agriculture and facilitate the distribution OIL
food products The Stone amendment IS by
| far the most potent of all the food leglslatlon
considered by congress and appears TO carry
the real solution of the problem. Inc Vltai
Feature of the bill, embraced in the Stone anti
boarding amendment, reads as follows:
! Any persons carrying employed in com.
the several states OF WIN ihar n
/ sessions of the United States in any article suit
l ae.e w ib either in his individual capacity
an officer, agent empoye of a corporation, OF
! ployed in such trade. shall store, acquire or un-
4 reasonably hold, who shall destroy or make
limiting the supply thereof to the public, or at
/ fecting the market price thereon IN such COLI
/ merce whether temporarily or otherwise, shal!
/ be deemed guilty of felony and be punished
han u, six months nor more than three years Pro-
! vided that any storing OF holding by any farm.
farm 90 garden or other land cultivated by him,
shall not be deemed to be a storing OF hoioins
! within the meaning of this act.
The passage of the withdrawing amend
ment is a more forward step toward absolute
food control than any other legislation syet be-
fore congress. No one wants food dictator TOR
the United States if it can be avoided. 1t would
be much better to control the SITUATION ny
Legislation than to give unlimited power TO one
man. be he Hoover or any other instead Oh
putting brake on the country's 1000 ne
sources it should be the aim to stimulate them.
/ of ho Ipd
struction of a revenue measure as In judicial IN
ter1,retation of a statute, and there are signs
that the finance committee of the senate IN
tends to employ it in revising the war tax Dill.
In the form in which it passed the house, this
bill would impose such heavy handlcaps on
business as to defeat the end in view by making
if impossible for business and industry to earn
the money the government must have to carry
on the war The tax burden in the house bill
lis too heavy to be borne and the first duty OF
the senate committee is to bring 1T within rea-
sonable limits The tariff provisions, de
scribed bv the chairman of the house committee
as the most unscientifc and the most ineqmtable
ever written. must be changed so as to help bus1
ness AS they stand they would inquire many
industries. The work Of framing fair anc
ADEQUATE bill, shamefully neglected by the
house. has been undertaken by the senate
News dispatches from Amsterdam say tina
!, Germany is calling to the front men who hae
been exempted from field duty as over age o.
because their work was needed in munitions o.
other factories The prodigious slaughter
which has made wall of corpses along thu
o Hindenburg line and is believed to surpas
E even the fearful wastage of life in the opera
Itions around Verdun, probably has made
necessary to send to the trenches all worker
. whose places can be filled by women Ger
: many is paying dearly for the distinction OF be
ing the last civilized people on the planet t.
q permit a sdivine-right'' autocrat and arrogan