The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1917-11-15
(By l.. l.. Stair)

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The following editorial from the st. Paul Daily News, which
has a circulation Of over $4,000, shows that that paper does not
wear the collar of the market raiders and food gamblers.
Reports come from Chicago that 500 carloads of pota-
toes have. been allowed to freeze and rot in cars on sidings.
food controller reports that commission merchants are using
freight cars for storage-cars that are needed for the trans
&SS Ta1s 8 D S2F SSe$3 T2Floa%L af Fo s2SS coNs SER a EP9si
"NE sncb nract;ces are renrebensib,e in ordinary times. Thew
deserve vigorous prosecution, heavy fines and imprisonment:
Now they are intolerable: These men should be prosecuted
and imprisoned for as long terms as the law allows And
quickly.
allowing it to spoil is criminal waste Now it is perilously
near to treason. Hanging is amost'too good and respectable
In these times of war there is much said of pro-Germans and
traitors but men who will commit the above crime have no man.
and traitors to the country, and should be dealt with accordingly.
When this war is over and the Grand Forks Herald unwraps
of cG Td n and fndm such fSe s sGttsn ifsti Fs5%;nt to p fSsh b to its : calculation aa;
of 100000:
s snd e eonsr sae 81 Pt t@e sDpp Ssf tSst 1 so @aa ine the hands N i1e ef n the sez
taiers. An oversupplly and a low price is not permitted.
s es1er ~' tsop, how sr w Rasat net, t The % rsssiss sr Always tns s ssanse 70 a Rsss;
difficulty in getting 4ng1 more ast. than abe a hegg a.sg. supply lyd for his trade trade;
the market supplied and q new shipment 81 bananas Or other
imported fruit came in, they found convenient reasons for
fs;n Sriee she F Fssss i5'a p esnsd in Il fh 5000 Sc + b assfsss, # to bananas maaas
reached Boston. Because the refrigerating machinery went
ton ready for hungry stomachs. They sought permission to
dump the cargo into the b sea as usual, t. keep prices y Up II Bo !
I TON. bL II FOOu AQHlHlSCTaCIOnO IIlceIS tMS ~
to eat and would not permit its destruction. AS a result Boston
got some good bananas cheap, lots Of them were given to the
poor, and eight carloads were given BY the company to the ar
my boys in Camp Devens. Nearly 3,780,OOO bananas were
saved because we had a food administrator who prevents waste
of foods"
Thru the education Of the American Society Of Equity some
Of us learned that the food prices were maintained at a high pro-
ftable degree by manipulation Of the markets and control Of the
supply, to the detriment Of the producer and consumer.
The A. S. of 3. sought to better these abuses through coop
Grafton by erecting terminal elevators and packing plants. 4 But
this had not gone far when it met with strong opposition.
It was soon evident that if the opposition were allowed to
make all railroad rates and rules of the game, the construction of
continued without gain to producer or consumer. With this ex-
|perience q Nonpartisan League was formed to attempt to control
state which resulted il = very nearly complete victory, politically;
But since the III. S. was drawn into the world war, the grain and
food gamblers lust for money has made III necessary for the nat
|ionsI government III take control 81 these 9ahlnaeRs ~ psessnt star.
ivationof TIE slower classes. Consequently az seems that the League
proexaq WI g. adopted nationally.