Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-03-17

clared war. but already we have food
riots in New York, Philadelphia and in
other cities.
Papers Of the stfipe of the New York
sun. New York Herald and Milwaukee
Journal claimed thst German agents
started the food riots. In other words
German agents are responsible that milk
in large eastern cities costs l3c a quart
where il used 10 be Sc; that shoes that
used to cost $3.50 cost $40 now; that
porkchops have gone up TO 24e and po-
tatoes to a a bushel
All this is not caused by having our
food bought up by the allies, who bought
$3.50, ,000,0 900 Of food stuff alone last
year. The high cost of living is caused
by German agents who now excite the
women to riot.
On the first day Of rioting the Mil
waukee Journal said that, according
to the mayor 40 new York, the bread
riots were begun by professional /. W.
w. agitators. Have these agitators
starved the children for the last two
yearss Have these poor devils used up
the production Of our country, especial
ly the foods
Government figures show that every
month enough foedstuffs are exported
from America to make 1,4T0,O3S,l60
loaves of bread, or ten loaves month
for every man, woman and child in the
United States.
Let Us Make It clear.
Meat, raisins, butter, lard, salmon,
corn syrup, bacon, cheese, condensed
milk-all food products Of the broad
fields of the United States-are sent TO
feed the soldiers of the warning nations
at more than $500,000,000 a year.
Let's get clear on this.
If we go to war, We do so in order to
protect the profits of our trust kaiser,
j. Pierpont Morgan. We 90 to war to
kill and get k;lled, in order to make
sure that the "short time'' notes of
Mr. Schwab can be paid by the allies.
We 90 to war in order to have American
wives and American children go bare
foot so that the leather can be sent to
Europe and the soldiers in the trenches
have good shoes. We ego to war to
starve our babies so that condensed milk
can be sent to the TOmmies somewhere
in Flanders. F"
Shame OIL our government! If we
had declared an embargo at the begin
ming OF the war--as the socialists pro-
posed-the war would have been over
for more than two years.
1t may have been possible that there
by the German kaiser would have de-
rived some benefits and that the Ameri-
can trust kaiser and his bunch would
have been poorer by about six billion
dollars. But what is that to uss Must
our hundred million Americans starve
or skimp in order to benefit the trust
kaiser and injure the German kaiserY
Awful Reckoning Coming.
Six million young men died on ac-
count of six billion dollars. The aveng-
ing angel is lowering over their graves.
Their blood is crying out for revenge
against our capitalist elass-against the
trust kaiser at least as much as against
the German kaiser, and his cousins in
England, Russia and everywhere. And
some day there will be an awful reeh-
oning, eye for an eye, tooth for tooth
If guilt is always personal, every one OF
our multi-millionaires will be personally
held response for mass murder.
Again / say, why should we go to wal
and shed our blood to protect the profit.
of our worst enemies at homes
Will meat go down in price if we gt
to wars Will flour be cheaper2 vii
potatoes be cheaper? No, they will cost
more the moment war is declared.
Why should we shed our blood Sc
that the high cost Of living may become
still higher9
What can the American people gain
by going into the war that American
people no not already possess2
Send Morgan to the Trenches.
If Morgan, Schwab & Co., must have
war, let Morgan, Schwab & Co., go tC
the trenches. They will have our bless
ing.
No American workman, no American
businessman wants to travel in the wal
zone just now. If there is any Astoi
or any Vanderbilt who feels the impulse
to fight, let him follow his impulse and
enlist in one of the European armies
There are about $4,000 neutral Ameri
cans in the ranks of the allied legions
now.
And patriotism does not consist in ap
plauding everything our capitalist gov
ernment decides to do.
There is no law-and none can bt
+, framed-tkat can compel us "to stand
behind the president when in our op