The Alaska daily empire., 1917-08-28
A WELL WON FIGHT
(New York WOrld)

(NeW
 No other measure of the Administration has encountered such formidable and venomous opposi- tion the Food Control Bill which passed by the Senate yesterday after weeks of obstruction.
 Crooked politics in partnership with crooked busi- ness marked it for slaughter before it was drafted While it still in committee Chicago grain gam blers began to organize the Western farmers against it on the pretense that it directed against the producers of food When this attack was beaten off, the Prohibition lobby, actively sun. ported by pacfst and pro-German members of Con gress undertook the mission of making the bill un workable.
 No sooner had the President cubbed off this lobby than the opponents of the measure cenered measure and attempted to nullify it by creating commission with divided authority which would pro- force compromise from the President the bill weighted down with Congressional Committee on the conduct or the war which had no more relation to the food situation than to the procession of the equ
 
 Back of these maneuvers stood all the sordd in terests that exploiting the food supply of the United States and taxing the American people to the very limit of their ability to pay. That they have finally been defeated is due largely to the and high purpose of President Wilson
 formidable task now confronts the Govern machinery of food control The whole purpose of this legislation is to insure an adequate supply of food at the same time providing the food for the British and French without which they could carry their part of the war No venture in food control on such scale has before been attempted, and no General in the field is charged with important duties as those which will devolve upon Herbert c. Hoover.
 It is strange commentary the state affairs in Washington that this who much de- served honor abroad by his work in Belgium, who is regarded everywhere the first authority food control and distribution, who is giving his services to his fellowcountrymen for nothing and sacrificing great private income to his of patriotic duty. has been abused in the United States with a viru- lence and malice that could hardly be justified if he were common sneakthief and pckpocket. Yet even the abuse which has been heaped upon MT. Hoover is tribute to his ability and integrity. If opponents of this legislation had not known that he was wholly honest and fully equipped for his task there would have been attacks They would have no fault to find with bungler scoundre in that oHice for bungler could accomplish nothing and scoundrel could be reached by the food gamblers who are pocketng millions of dollars every month from extoronate prices
 The country has had convincing object lesson as to the imperative need of this legislation ana the qualifications of Mir Hoover for the office for which the President has selected him than in the bitter hostility that the bill awakened and the personal attacks that have been made upon MT. Hoover himself The bill and it's administrator alike lind their highest commendation in the character of the opposition that they aroused from the exploters Of the poor and the defenseless