The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-11-14
PROFITEERS MAY LOSE.


joicing everywhere except in the home.
and offices of the profiteers who have
been Fleeing the people on high-pricee
substitutes for flour. The men who
raised the price of corn meal and corr
flour 100 per cent and the price of al
other substitutes proportionately, may
lose money on the stocks on hand. It is
% be hoped that these grating profiteers
lave been caught with thousands of tons
Of these substitutes on hand and will
have to sell them at less than cost.
No blame can attach to the retailers
who were "held up by the profiteering
manufacturers and wholesalers, just as
the consumers were, and it is to be
hoped that retail dealers have their
stocks well reduced.
1t is certain that the people who have
always felt resentment against the manu-
facturers and the food administration
which fixed the prices of wheat and
flour but put no limit on the prices or
profits of substitutes will not buy a
pound of these substitutes now that they
are not required to do so. The people
were willing and ready to make any
sacrifice needed to win the war, but pay
ing twice as much for cornmeal as for
wheat flour, when corn sold for about
half the price of wheat, helped no one
but the profiteers who were protected
by the food administration. This is an
injustice that has never been and never
will be explained by the food admins
tration, which had the power and the
will to fix the price of wheat and flour
but had the power and not the will to
protect the consumers against the graft
ing manufacturers of substitutes. 1t will
serve the latter right if they have been
caught with enormous supplies of sub
stitutes on hand and cannot sell them at
any price.
If the United States has to feed the
German people as now seems likely, after
they have been deserted by the kaiser
who got them into the war and kept
them in it until they were whipped and
starved into submission, it will be g1ori-
ous chance for the comparatively few
Germans in America who have favored
Germany from the beginning to the close
of the war. to contribute from the wealth |
they have accumulated here to feed their |
starving countrymen in their native |
country. Only last week committee of |
Colfax citizens were compelled to call
upon a Gernlan-born citizen who mas
amassed fortune in America, and use
Force to suppress his denunciation of
America. 1t would be good idea for
he United States government to take
hat mans property and sell it and send
he proceeds to feed his relatives in the
ountry he deserted because he though {
he United States better place to live
nd make money than Germany was =
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1t is a mighty good thing for the farm a
RS of America that President Wilson i
eclared the price for the 1919 crop of
heat will be 81 or more per bushe1
With the Australian wheat crop of the II
asst three years and the wheat of India t
lrown on the markets now, American
armers would find the price of wheat !,
Ding down at an alarming rate, if they q
ad not this protection. We are assured Il
81 or more for our 1919 wheat crop =
,r the next congress will not have the =
erve to repeal the law which fixed the V
rice for that crop. We will probably
e wheat higher in the United States o
ian any place in the world next year
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American soldiers are on German soil U
day, marching to Strassburg, which =
ey will garrison until the final peace is
eaty is signed. They are advancing
ithout fighting. the German soldiers, tt
larmed, being enroute to their homes.
lille it will be a disappointment to a,
any that fighting stopped before it al
ached the German boundary, Ameri- Il;
us have actually invaded German soil ~
d American soldiers will occupy Ger
any's strongest forts. w
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The people of Bavaria, the common
ople-the people which did the fighting of
d the suffering, have founded a re-
bic and have announced to the United IN
ltes and her allies that l"the autocracy 90 90
Bavaria deserves no pity and should tn
punished for crimes committed" The ST.
varians are showing signs of real e.
b1ligence -.
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nU0jeou pisy