The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1918-03-14

not organize, the editor thinks, to pro-
tect the interests of the people The
editor declares he is opposed to an or
ganization of farmers, led, as he says,
by a gang from North Dakota.
Then he quotes at length an article
from the Shoshone Journal. Answer
ing that charge, why do we organize
nowg We organize to back up the
president at this time when he Ia fight
ing for American democracy. We claim
the farmers are the best friends Presi-
dent Wilson has In this fight today
against these Big Business combines
Mr.. Wilson has now entered upon the
biggest fight that this country has ever
seen. He is trying to take from Big
business one by one these public util-
tiles. First he took the power to
gamble away from the grain gamblers.
According to Mr.. Hoover, the grain
gamblers last year gambled this ma
ton out Of fifty million dollars a.
month in wheat. Mr.. Wilson stopped
that And already the grain gamblers
are forming an alliance to discredit
Mr.. Wilson because of that big help
for the farmers.
Mr.. Wilson took over the railroads
for democracy. Why? Last summer
and fall the railroads juggled and play.
ed shuttlecock with the cars all over
this land, claiming that they did not
nave enough rolling stock to meet the
emergency. Instead Of that, the emp
Ties were plenty. They wanted fifteen
per cent raise on the freight rates.
me government did not give it. The
railroads then shunted thousands of
freight cars on side tracks, In gravel
PITS and other places, until people
screamed aloud for freight cars to car
~ their produce to market. The rail
roads created an artificial demand for
cars last fall. Mr.. Lee and Mr.. Gar
retson, presidents of the two national
trainmen's declarations of this country.
have openly declared before congress-
that the stock owners of the railroads
are now again trying to play the game
OF politics, and cause the railroad sys-
fem to break down now, since the gov
ernment has it under control. The
railroad commission Of California. ono
OF the best that we have, In an omen
telegram to Mr.. Wilson, declared that
the presidents of the two big systems
the Santa Fe and the Southern Pacific
are trying to discredit and break down
the government now IN the handling
OF the railroad systems. Think of nj
when our country needs cars to carry
It's produce to the market and its sun-
pines to the soldiers, the railroads NAV
politics for fifteen per cent raise in
freight rates, and now try to discredit
the government in the operation of the
railroad systems.
Ihen water transportation was
needed to get supplies across to the
allies and to our soldiers and tran
sports FOR our soldiers. Water tran
sportation is the one great need TODAY.
Inc government naturally turned over
TO group of big financiers, RockefeI-
Ter vanderbilt, of Standard Oil fame /.
armour, the packer; Louvett, presi.
dent OF the Union Pacific; Corey. steel
trust official; and others, millions of
dollars to build ships at Hog Island
snip yards In Pennsylvania. BY this
time we should have fifty ships. In
stead OF that these financiers have
squandered the money among them
selves. The contract became a hog wal.