Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1917-07-10
EMBARGO PLACED
ON u. S. PRODUCTS
PRESIDENT TO PUT INTO EFFECT
LAW FURTHER TO- GRIP
PIE OUR FOES.
ISSUES NEW PROCLAMATION
Foods. Fuel, Steel and Other Articles
to Be Sold Abroad Must Bear U.
S. License-AiI Facts Bearing
on Shipments to Be Given

/, Washington. - Government control
of American exports, authorized in
provision of the espionage act. was
ordered put into operation July Is by
President Wilson Sunday in a procla-
nation requiring the licensing of all
shipments to countries of the most
important export commodities.
The Proclamation.
The presidents proclamation, after
quoting the law empowering the gov
eminent to take control of exports,
says:
II hereby proclaim to all wrom it
may concern that, except at such
time or times and under such regu-
lations and orders and subject to such
limitations and exceptions as the
president shall prescribe, until other
wise ordered by the president, or by
the congress, the following articles,
namely: Coal, coke, fuel oils, kero-
sene and gasoline. including bunkers;
food grains, flour and meal there
from, fodder and feeds, meats and
fats; pig iron, steel billets, ship
plates and structural shapes, scrap
iron and scrap steel; ferro mangan-
csc; fertilizers; arms, ammunition
and explosives; shall not, on and af-
ter the 18th day of July, 1917, be car
ried out of or exported from the Uni
ted States or its territorial posses
sions to all countries.
1.-The orders and regulations from
time to time prescribed will be ad-
ministered by and under the author
ity of the secretary of commerce
from whom licenses. in conformity
with the said orders and regulations,
will issue.
Must Guard Home Supplies.
'In controlling by license the ex-
port of certain indispensable commod-
tiles from the United States the gov
eminent has first and chiefly in view
the amelioration of the food condi-
lions which have arisen, or are like
ly to arise, fin our own country be-
fore new crops are harvested Not
only is the conservation of our prime
food and fodder supplies matter
which vitality concerns our own peo-
pie, but the retention of an adequate
supply of raw materials is essential
to our program of military and naval
construction and the continuance OF
our necessary domestic activities. We
shall, therefore, similarly safeguard
all our fundamental supplies.
'iIt is obviously the duty of the
United States in liberating any sur
plus products over and above our
own domestic needs, to consider first
the necessities of all the nations en-
gagged in war against the central en-
pires AS to neutral nations, how
ever, we also recognize our duty. The
government does not wish to hamper
them. On the contrary it wishes and
intends. by all fair and equitable
means to cooperate with them in
their difficult task of adding from
our available surpluses to their own
domestic supply and of meeting their
pressing necessities or deficits. In
considering the deficits of food sup
plies, the government means only to
fulfil its obvious obligation to assure
itself that neutrals are outstanding
their own resources, and that our sup
plies will not become available, eth
er directly or indirectly, to feed the
enemy"