The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-30
To MAKE:
WEALTH
PAY Up!

feating the enemy.
Second: The enormous bur-
dens of war must be distrib-
uted as equally as it is hui
manly possible to distribute
them, among the 11O,O0O,OOO
people of the nation. These
burdens include paying for
the war as well as fighting
the war.
There must be no blood-profit.
Just because the president, be-
ing a mere man and not a SUPER
man, has been unable to accom-
plish the miracle of doing every
thing at once, it seems to have
been assumed by large numbers OF
people that he is not going to do
some of them at all.
Impotence.
There is no denying the fact
that among workers and consum-
ers of the nation there is impa-
thence and dissatisfaction because
so little apparent progress has
been made toward limiting profits,
reducing the cost of life's neces-
stiles, and putting upon the own
ers of surplus wealth, where 1t be-
longs, the main load of the war
taxation.
It is equally true that up to a
very short time ago there has been
a feeling Of great satisfaction and
content among the brotherhood OF
the blood profiteers.
This brotherhood Is composed
in the main of those men who In
one way or another have got con-
troll of the national resources Of
the nation-the ore, coal, lumber,
etc; those men who have got con-
troll of the transportation of the
nation-the railways, Steamship,
etc; and those men who have got
control OF the machinery which
fabricates the raw materials into
munitions of war and the neces-
stiles of the civil population.
Bides His Time.
The brotherhood has been sat
isfied and contented because 1t
was continuing to wallow in its
blood profits, and because few il
any of its number had the imagin-
alton to realize that the more they
wallowed the deeper would be the
pit in which eventually they would
be buried.
Being a man of keep percep-
ton, the president has not been
fooled for a minute as to what the
blood profiteers have been doing
during the past five months to
their fellow countrymen and their
government.
Being a man of unflinching de-
termination and courage, he never
even has considered permitting
them to continue piling up their
blood profits or keeping what they
have piled up.
Being a man of infinite patience
he has been willing to wait to
strike the blows until he could
strike them with such force that
they would be effective.
The hour has struck for the
blood profiteers-the blows
are about to fall; i'm fact,
the first blow has already
fallen on the coal operators.
BY presidential proclamation
1926 a ton has been fixed as the
mine price for Washington coal.
This price allows the owners of
the coal mines a legitimate profit,
but 1t eliminates the blood profit.
II the owners of the coal mines
are so lacking in patriotism that
they refuse to produce the maxi
mum of coal at this price, the
president will not hesitate a min
ute to use the power which he has
under the law to take over the
mines and operate them on gov
eminent account.
The government and people of
the United States and our allies
are going to have all the coal they
need at fair price during the war
THAT is SETTLED.
Good Wages, Too.
What is more, the men who dig
the coal out of the mines are 60
ing to get the highest wages COM
patible with 1926 a ton and rea-
sonable profit.
Part of the machinery built up
to make the presidents blow al
the coal operators effective is a
wage board that will protect the
mine workers by guaranteeing
them FAIR PAY.
Iron ore, finished steel, copper,
oil, steamship rates, etc, are all
slated for the same treatment.
For months, under the direction
of the president, the various de-
partments and commissions of the
government best fitted for the
task have been making investiga-
lions and calculations as to cost of
production and distribution, IN
EVERY BASIC INDUSTRY IN
THE COUNTRY.
Thousands of men have been en-
gagged in this work, and the presi-
dent is armed with the facts and
figures which these men have
gathered and Interpreted.
In eyery'case these facts and fig
ures show that there is little II
any relation between the cost OF
production and the price to the
consun er.
Grimly Determined.
Blood profiteering In the most
fragrant form that 1t ever has been