Licking Valley courier., 1917-05-24
GUMPTION, A+Haa
Which is plain Common Sense in United States I
language, without Educational Furbelows.
BY l.. L. HONERNIALE.
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Traitors to the government areot necessarily those
who are furnishing active aid to the enemy The men
who speculatng in the foodstus of the nation and
holding the food for higher prices truly traitors to
America as was Benedict Arnold aget
But before you begin to tinge the atmosphere with
e5mstone OF your urd anathenas against the food
spectators in the Cities look about you and what is
happening at home In many sections of Morgan county
can be found farmers whose cribs full of
having part of the 1915 harvest and who seadfasty
fuse to sell to their neighbors even bushe for bread
holding for higher prices while children 90 hungry
have seen within the past few days, laborng with
money pay begging for opportunity to buy bread for
their families, and have them denied that bread by
those whe had more than they needed And yet these
will prate OF their patriotism and Rockefeller for
being hog These lack that broad spirit of human
ty that contributes to the upbuidng of brohery love-
They wholly selfish and seishness is patriotic
When the time arrives thatthe honest toler must beg
the privilege Of buying bread the safety of the nation is
in peril And that time is here If the holders of food
are not careful they will provoke storm that will make
the French Reign of Terror look tame in comparison
claim occult power of prophecy, but nave stud
led the situation closely and have sensed the pressure that
the people bringing to bear upon the government at
Washington and predict this That unless there is a
material reduction in the price of food and oosenng of
the hodof spectators on the food suppy within thirty
days, the government will seize tie food supply and dis
tribute it to the people as needed
Indeed well nfomed men whose relation to the gov
ernnent puts them position know, intimate that
plans have already been perfected for the government
take charge of the entire food supply and in confirmation
OF this the food exchanges trying to avert by vol
Atariy stopping their gambling.
And what does that mean? means that the govern
ment will take charge of all Of the food products in the
and that it will fix the price at the normal figures the
prices of year retail to the people at that price
And do not think any locality will be overlooked If this
done the authorities will know of every bit of food in
the land The United States Secret Service is very eff
Gent You may entertain them unawares The man who
tries to sell you farm implements may also take inyen-
tory of your STOCK Another may for an oil lease
and go away with knowledge of how much grain you
have And the you refusing to sell for $500 per
bushe to feed hungry children may be taken from you
$00 and if you boarding it in Of your family
needs it will serve you right.
If any man thinks that we are to get through this
war without considerable sacrifice the part of every
body he had better think again. The full strength of the
United States will have to be used and every man anC
woman will necessarily have to do their bit 1t is not
time for sefishness and greed The world is shaken il
the mighty conflict between freedom and mtarism anC
if the countries fighting for personal liberty lose we
down in the vortex with them This is time to try tn
souls of and bring to the surface the real nature
each individual The hog willing to batten on the need
of his neighbors in this national crisis will stand reveae
in all his swnish greed and seshness and will be the oh
ject of the just contempt of all mankind.
believe that Farmer Shultz of Simpson county, VIII
refused to sell his to spectators for two dollars
bushe and sold to his needy neghbors at fifty cents, vii
have bright page in the written history of this war
will any general or admiral and moreover the event
disaster famine the Providence that watches the spal
rows fall will watch over him and his and care for then
The travesty religion and civilization is that me
who do the things that obviously the Chrstlk
things are so rare that they excite comment Such act
should be the rule rather than the exception but they
not Hence the government must and will Law its stron
hand upon the food hogs and make them dsgorge
Better government food control than food riots.
One of the two is inevitable.
In view of our seishness and greed is it any wondc
harharans reoard