El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-03-14
All Right Bread Ticketsl

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"A few more acts of the food administra-
ton and we shall have bread tickets" howls
Senator Reed Of Missouri. the gentleman
who BECAME a bitter personal enemy Of
Hoover before the Food Administration bill
passed, who bitterly, opposed the control of
food in this country during the war, who
spread abroad disproven charges that the
Food administration had favored the sugar.
refiners and who has lost no Opportunity to
maiign and attack Hoover in the whole
policy of food control.
All right, Mr.. Reed, bread tickets. If it
takes bread tickets to win the war, we are
ready for them. Are you? If it needs bread
tickets here to supply bread to the starving
people of France and the fighters at the
front, we believe the majority of
Americans can stand it without a whin-
per. Can your. Have you ever raised
your voice in the United States senate to
plead with the people of your country to
save food to win the war? Have you ever
appealed to your countrymen to make sac
riices to see that their soldiers, our boys,
have ample food, that the thin red line in
France be taken care of, that the wheat be
used as breastworks to keep the Hun out
of the United States rather than to fatten
the greedy pro-GermanS of America? Have
you, Mr.. Reed, ever sent forth clarion tones
from the capitol calling on the people of
America to divide their daily handful Of
sugar with French who have half a lump?
Have you striven to awaken the people to
the need of stretching a normal supply Of
p foodstuffs for this nation far enough to
make it feed two other nations in order
that the barbarian may be kept out of our
shoresf Or have y39 been one OF those
who wanted everyone to eat plenty of wheat
and use up the supply at home just the
same as if we had no war on hand and nc
allies begging for the nourishment which
through Ai ~ sAisay
Has anyone heard the gentleman from
Missouri haranguing the p~opulace to swell
the Liberty Loan? Has he perchance ap-
peared on any platform with a fervid preach.
ment for support for the Red Cross? Has he
been sounding in stentvrian tones the call
to arms to save America and American in
situations? Has he told the nation of any
German, peril? Did he launch Philippines
when the tusitahia was sunk? Does ne
daily use his high and influential position
to help arouse America to her danger? Is
he helping build up Columbia's defenses, or
is he tearing down and undermining? To
come down to cases, is Senator Reed of
the state of Missouri for this war for Amer
ica's existence? Is his soul in other words
possessed with and obsessed by the single
great idea of winning this war at any cost?
He alleges ignorant interference by the
food administration with business methods"
is he referring to such splendid business
methods of ~comInercial boarding of large
quantities Of foodstuffs, Of forcing up the
price of sugar, to the practices OF the meat
packers, thoroughly up to date in their bust
ness and commercial efficiency; to all those
clever and profitable business methods that
have been put out of business when they
sought to bleed their country in its extrem-
ity? 1.-THE efficiency of the United States"
says Mr.. Reed, has been decreased twenty
per cent by this alleged ignorant inter
Ference 1t might be well to in
quire how much, the efficiency of the
United States has been increased in this
critical time by the utterances up to date
of Messrs. Reed, Stone, La Toilette and
others? What has Mr.. Reed done to help
provide supplies for Americas associates in
the WARP What has he done to get con
summer to use substitutes for wheat, to in
duce farmers to Increase their crops even
at a loss, to speed up the output of NUM-
lions, to help remedy the coal situation
whose handling he neatly disposes of by
calling Mr.. Garfield fatty a liar?
1t would be a task to stagger statistical
experts, that Of figuring up how much
Americas efficiency has been Slapped and
drained and handicapped and crippled by
the utterances Of men who have wet.blar.
keted the war and sought, whatever their
alleged motives, to take the nations heart
out Of the war and whose speeches and as
saults have furnished ammunition eagerly!
seized upon by the enemies Of America.
The American people are ready for bread
tickets when It comes to bread tickets. But
if some things continue there Is going to be
a rather powerful public sentiment in favor
of issuing such bread tickets with some dis
erection and judgment. Whether Senator
Reed of Missouri will have a place we'll
toward the head Of the line is a matter OF
speculation.