The weekly soliphone., 1917-07-05
People Must Sacrifice.


america must make the Sacrl-
flee in dollars and creature com
forts within the next year, or she
must make thereafter the sacrifice
in men-and then ultimately, the
sacrifice in material things as we'll,
he said. 1.-The short cut to victory
is organization, and this organiza-
ton can come only with eoncen-
tration of authority. 1t is, there
fore, with an absolute confidence
that | give my vote to bill accord
ing the most extraordinary and au-
tocratic powers ever conferred in
our nation.
while, of course, legitimate en-
terprise during the conflict should
be nurtured and encouraged, 1t
must understand from the very be-
ginningN that no profitable patriot
ism will be tolerated. If a con-
crete ILLUSTRATION were required to
demonstrate the necessity for some
sort of legislation in relation to-
prices, it is found in the recent dis
cussion concerning the steel cor
poration We find, before the war,
this corporation selling it's product
from $21 to $25 a ton. At the
beginning of 1916 its contracts for
the delivery of steel plates to com
mercial shipbutlding concerns was
$42.56 per ton, and very recently it
asked from the United States gov
eminent S95 per ton.
"When an ordinary man sees his
loved boy snatched from his home
to be shot to pieces upon a foreign
SOIL and reads of profits asked by
q corporation created by this gov
eminent of six hundred millions per
year during the war, he cannot be
blamed for the demand in which
our people unite and in which the
congress unites by the passage Of
Just such bills as this"
Tribute to Hoover.
Senator Johnson praised Herbert
C. Hoover and said lie is particu
larly fitted for the task of food
administration.
Senator Lodge. saying he would
vote for the bill after it had been
carefully considered, opposed some
of its provisions as amazing and
Isaid public excitement" for food
control legislation is pressing upon
congress with little public concep-
tion of the powers the bill pro-
poses to confer.
"The people only know of its
provisions in general way" he
said. Congress must also consid-
er the people who are seeking for
more huge power. More than one
of the Caesars went mad by mere
possession of unrestrained power.
We have pressure constantly to give
more power.
The Massachusetts Senator oppos-
ed particularly the proposal that
the American Industries shall sell to
foreign nations as we'll as the Am
erican government at low prices
He said the minimum price fixing
provisions holds "over the heads of
business and industry a deadly
threat" and protested against the
exemption of farmers from the
boarding section.
Opposing the dry" legislation as
an injection of q moral issue and
not a war measure, the Senator di-
Tected attention to the fact that the
effort to impose prohibition on the
country "has been mixed up with
good conservation" by congress it
self and mot the administration, "
He declared himself in favor OF
prohibiting the manufacture of dis
titled liquors during the war, but
thought beer and wines should be
permitted.
Beer, he said, carries very little
alcohol and the closing of the
breweries not only would stop the
drinking of beer, but would deprive
the country of $40, 900 in rev
enue, throw over 100000 men out