The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1919-06-19

heavy paper packages in which they
are marketed. Their profit on this
paper Is from $50 to 500 per cent,
thanks to Doctor Alsberg's decision.
There was published In this expose
some Of the packers secret CORE
spondence, showing how they sent for
mer Solicitor McCabe Of the depart
ment Of agriculture to Washington as
their agent. to get this decision, and
how he was paid $4,000 for the trick.
1t added nearly 2 cents q pound to
retail prices for sliced bacon.
North Dakota's N~onpartisan legis-
lature has enacted q net weight law
which corrects this injustice to the
consumer, insofar as that state Is con.
cerned.
Now Senator Gore Of Oklahoma and
Representative Sweet of Iowa have
introduced identical bills, amending
the pure food act, SO as to construe
the word package" to include wrap
ped meats inclosed In papers or other
materials. This cuts OF the met
weight" graft.
The bill may be made q rider to the
agricultural appropriation bill, but If
that falls 1t will be given special hear
ings' before the house committee on
interstate and foreign commerce, and
will be carried to a separate rollcall.
It has the support Of the federal trade
commission, the National Wholesale
Grocers' association, the United Mas
ter Butchers Of America and the Ma
tional Consumers league. It Is known
as S. 1928 In the senate, and as H. R.
1922 In the house.
Bolivian Sees Change.
In his address to the Pan-American
commercial conference here this week,
Senior Don Ignacio Calderon, minister
from Bolivia, threw a momentary chill
upon the blazing profit hopes of some
Of the assembled exporters and bank.
ers when he said:
1.-THE world is alive with the spirit
Of freedom and right. We would fail
to read the signs Of the times If we
thought that this great upheaval is
merely political. Society Is shaking
from its foundations, and new hopes
are being cherished everywhere. Many
years ago so-called captains Of In
dustry used to express their concep-
ton Of the relations of capital to the
public and the w~age-earners In q way
that showed the greatest contempt for
the public and the workmen- Today
any man o. corporation that would
ignore the right of the public to a
proper and just treatment, or pretend
that workingmen must be satisfied
with whatever they are given. would
be considered an enemy Of the com.
munity.
THE autocracy Of capital Is passing
away"
Senate Favors Ireland.
When the senate of the United
States. on June 6. registered q vote
Of 60 to 1 in favor Of Irish selfde-
termination, and asked the president
to secure . hearing for the leaders Of
the movement for Irish independence
before the peace conference in Paris,
it took the first important step in its
new course OF sharing responsibility
for our foreign policy with President
Wilson. The Borah resolution. calling
for international recognition for the
government. republican In form, es-
tablished By the people Of Ireland"
was not adopted. it is true, put the
compromise which did secure this
nearly unanimous vote meant the
same thing. 1t asked the American
peace delegates to see that Edward
de Valera, Arthur Grifiths and Count
Plunkett, the three highest officials Of
the Sim Fein republic, shall be heard
by the Paris conference, and II con.
| tanned this further clause, proposed
by Senator Walsh Of Massachusetts,,
| Democrat: @That the senate Of the
United States expresses its sympathy
with the aspirations Of the Irish peo-
pie for a government Of their own
choice"
So the senate has declared for q
free Ireland. It may later declare foI
a free Korea, and finally It may back
up the doctrine announced last, year
by President Wilson, but abandoned
by him when he agreed to the Paris
treaty that every people has the
right to determine the sovereignty
and the form OF government under
which It shall live,
|. "Don't Give Up the shlps.s
Senator Fletcher Of Florida, former
chairman Of the senate committee or
commerce, has coined the slogan
Don't Give UP the Ships!" In oppo
sition to the campaign Of the big ship
ping combine and Chairman Hurle,
Of the shipping board. who want thu
government to close out its $4,000.
0OO, 900 worth Of ships to private own
ership and operation, and to sell then
at q bargain.
How Criticism Helps.
Censure and criticism never hurt
anybody. II false they can't hurt YOU
unless you are wanting IN manly char
acter: and Il true they show q mar
his weak points and forewarn hin