The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1919-08-27

The people OF thiss locality should
Immediately commence preparations
for big railroad strike, one that
will probably be the most disastrous
in history Persistent rumors from
centers OF population, where large
numbers of railway men live, indicate
that there will be a general tie up OF
every railroad in the land early, in
September, if not before. The shop
mems strike is just a preliminary and
the bad feeling engendered among all
classes of railway men is going to lead
to something greater in the strike line.
Folks familiar with the situation know
that the trainmen have been in deep
sympathy with the striking shopmen,
and have given them every aid and
comfort possible. Railway managers
and operators have gone into the shops
in place of the strikers, and have done
all that was humanity possible to keep
rolling stock in action, yet their ef-
forts have been nullified to consider
able degree by trainmen, many OF
whom have clandestinely assisted in
train delays and stoppages. -.
The writer asserted last week that
we would get no relief from present
high prices until there was general
strike. We are still of the same opin-
ion. While it will tend to lower the
prices of labor, it will likewise get
the profiteers, whose selling of the ar
ticles of food and clothing will be alb
solutely stopped. This will be Just
the thing" to put an end to the high
prices OF perishable food, which, at
the present time, is being "profiteered"
in a scandalous way. Personally we
think every commission house organ
ization ought to be put in Jail and kept
there. They are the real highway.
men" of commerce today. The pack.
ers are making big moKey, but their
profit is nothing compared to the COM
mission mems "rakeoff." =
A Bee reader in Kansas writes us
this week as follows: "We have been
paying 1915 per bushel for peaches
here. While we are doing this there
are hundreds of car loads rotting on
the ground just across the line in Ok.
lahoma. The top price paid to the or
chard men is only 80 cents per bushel,
most of them getting only so cents.
When we we're paying 81 per bushel
for potatoes three years ago 100 car
loads were allowed to stand on tracks
in Chicago and freeze. All because
poor people could not raise the price
to buy them" ...4 u
There is something radically out Of
joint in the fruit and melon business.
In Rocky Ford several years ago the
write rspent the "melon season" visit.
ing. Melon raisers were getting ! cent
each for melons, a crate of As selling
for As cents The Santa. Fe was re.
frigerating these melons into Kansas
City at cost of IL cents per crate,
Total cost at Kansas City ~ cents
for each melon. Retail price of mel
ons in Kansas City 20 cents apiece.
Therefore, let the strike come.
Folks with perishable fruit can eat it
themselves, mixed with paregoric to
Offset the evil in the fruit. Here in
Greene county we can roast our field
corn and eat it with rock salt We will
not starve. If the strike "get US" on
coal we can double up in houses and
burn corn in the furnace. 1t will be
like an operation for cancer, but let
us have the cancer out. We may as
well have the operation, first as last
II the glzzarl has to come out with