New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1918-07-27

try by packers. 1t reveals the
excess profits made by coal ba
IRONS. 1t charges the large -four
mhlers with exacting immense
war profits at a time when the
farmer producers were regulated
| by governmental price fixing. II
goes. all through the list in a most
methodical and painstaking man,
| ner telling who has been profit
!, eermg and how much. The com
mission exonerates some large
business institutions of profiteer.
ing charges, and does not hesitate
to express it's opinion when i,
finds hands soiled bv unpatriotic
bpro6t taking. Thus:
| These have preyed upon the
people unconscionahy.'' And
again
/ tSome Of it (profiteering) is at
tributable to inordinate greed
and barefaced fraud
No honest person can read the
commissions report. study those
figures of profits. and not come to
the conclusion that profteers have
helped til keaiser in this war
/ against the nations fighting for
| democracy.
They have increased the cost Of
living here, in France. Great Bri-
! tain and wherever else American
products $50 to aid in fighting this
| war. By thus increasing the liv-
ing cost they might have weak
ened the morale Of the people and
the soldiers fighting for u.s. They
have done much to make the bur-
den of war harder fo rthe Amer
lean people to bear.
They have been of great as
sstance to the enemies Of demOc-
racy than the whole collection of
pro German Germans and anti
war socialists in these United
.States-and they have done this
not for principle but for dollars! /!
Omaha Daily News.
Our people are in this war heart
and sonl-pocket, stomach and
starred service flag. We propose
to win. it and drag chain the tigers
who still infest the medieval
moral jungle. of central Europe at
whatever Cost in personal priva
ton, in keenly felt sacrifice, in
the straitening Of our ives-yes,
in the blood Of our sons. Our men
buy liberty bonds until it mort
cages their earning power and
cuts their living expenditures to
stark necessities. Our women
labor early and late to fit them
selves to carry on the business
of the nation when the men go TO
fight for its freedom and exist
ence. Our very children are
taught to forego their little lux
urise in order to invest their
pocket money pitifully small
to proiteer, but big as house
to the budding patriots Sin thrift
stamps.
But, in the name of our first
dead and of those who are about
to die, we are not doing this to
pour more millions into hands al
ready weighted below the heart
line by the millions they have.
We are not even doing it to make
lew millionaires. When the ma
lion is in the agony of a great
war the making of millionaires IS
! non-essential industry. There
ire only two classes of men who
,rofteer on battlefield the dis
lonest sutler and the ghoul who
obs the wounded and the dead.
During the battle of Vimy Ridge,
which lasted for days and terrible
lights, the Canadian Y. NJ. C. A. /,
workers. climbed through the
battered thickets that clothe it I
n a hell of shrapnel and machine
.un bullets to carry bottles Of /
lot coffee to the fighters. But \
hey did not charge for them. I
hey were priceless. but they r
we're free. That is the spirit Of !
america at war-not that Of the f
ly. greedy sutler safe behind the Q
mes, who charges ten prices for =
is stock.-Philadelphia Public
ledger. Is
S. S.