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include industrial workers fol
all classes of insurance.
Bureau of farm risk insur
ance bill.
Upwards of $25,00O,O0O o.
fire and marine insurance pre-
miums have already been with
drawn from private insurers ant
assumed by the government
meaning a loss to the companie.
Of insurance on railways, ships
cargoes, wheat in terminal ele
vators, etc. Further loss of in
surance on telegraph and tele
phone properties taken over by
the government may be expect
ed, and the end is not yet"
This secret stab at war meas
ures states that 25O,OOO person.
are engaged in the insurance
business. Far from being an ar
gument for the continuance Of
the wasteful door-to-door solici
tation of insurance, this is :
plain reason why the business
should be combined under thu
government, that thousands o1
the employees may be set free tx
engage in more productive la.
bor, supplying materials for car.
rying on the war.
Certain officials in Washing.
ton have placed the stamp OF
their approval on social insur.
ance," this corporation president
whines, and he closes by urging
every agent to take up the men
ace with political leaders, edi.
tors, heads of commercial, civic
farm, labor or similar organiza.
tions, claiming their aid for pro.
tecting private business, and tc
secure the ''best men" for con.
gress.
Congress and the Packers.
A bill fer the taking over and
operating of the principal stock.
yards of the country, along with
the refrigerator cars and cattle
cars, by the railroad administra-
tion, and for taking over and
operation of the branch houses
and storage warehouses of the
big packers by the government,
as recommended by the federal
trade commission in it's report
on the packing trust, is now be-
ing drafted.
This bill will be submitted to
the senate and house. Commit
tee hearings will be held. Mem
bers of the federal trade COM
mission, their experts, probably
including Francis J. Heney, and
some Of the biggest Of the rob-
Der barons among the packers,
will be called as witnesses. Then
the whole fight will go to the
floor of the house and to the
floor Of the senate, on report of
the bill from committee.
Will the White House demand
that the bill pass? None of the
public officials who are in a po-
sition to ask the president about
it are willing to say. Probably
the president will let events
take their course, in this case,
because so many reactionary
Democratic and Republican
members are lined up against
public operation of stockyards
that they might combine to OBJ
struct his war measures if he
became too active in supporting
this measure. He will, perhaps,
send his views of the matter,
privately, to the senators who
are to attempt to speak for. the
administration in the committee.
But it is likely that he will let
the senate discover, from first
hand testimony by federal trade
representatives and by the Chi
cago packing barons, how SER
ious a danger to the allied cause
is the packers combination in
control Of the allies meat sup
plies.
President Fights Dam Lease.
President Wilson let it be
known through Congressman
Scott Ferris Of Oklahoma, that
he is opposed to the clause ia the
present waterpower bill that
would force the public to pay an
exorbitant price to regain con-
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