The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1919-02-13
SPEAK KERSHlP FIGHT WARNS lJP,
OLD GUARD sure OF WINNING
SWIFT ADMITS CHARGES BEFORE SENATE C0MMITTEE-UNEM
4 PLoYMENT INCREASES THROUGHOUT THE UNION CON-
GRESHAM YoUNGs PLAN ON WHEAT GUARANTEE.

OF Lne business, year aILer year, IN
each market, that was not proof Of
combination among them, but Of com
petition =
At one point Swift and Veeder tried
to get the committee into position
where, if it questioned them, the
packers would claim immunity from
prosecution under the federal law.
Norris and Kenyon at once jumped on
that proposition, and Heney refused
to proceed until the packers definitely
waived all claim Of Immunity.
Who Tst Diamond To-?
One of the most sensational points
in, the examination Of Swift was reach
ed when the Diamond T' letter was
read, and Swift admitted that the
name Hurley written upon it "looks
like my handwriting" This letter was
received by Swift from Washington,
and gave the packers advance infor-
nation as to how the federal trade
commission was to conduct the in
vestigation of their business. 1t sug-
gested that the packers prepare at
once to make their showing as to
costs and prices. On the upper corner
Of the letter was the letter ct" in
side diamond shaped design. One of
the senator's asked whether Swift
thought the letter .'eT" could possibly
stand for "Tumulty." Swift thought
it did not. He denied that the letter
came from Thomas F. Logan, the
social lobbyist" who got $4,000 a
year from the packers for mysterious
"advice."
Unemployment Grows
But most issues are less serious,
just at this moment, than the issue of
unemployment, complicated by the
fact that more. than million men
have been released from the army and
navy. Both Democrats and ,Repus--
Elicans are worried by the scraps of in-
formation that come in from New
York, Chicago and elsewhere, showing
that conditions are. rapidly getting
worse.
In New York City, it is estimated,
there are today more than IS 600 dis
charged soldiers idle and either broke
or within few days Of destitution.
In Chicago there are 25,0O0 negro
graduates of the army camps, wait
ing for good jobs and not getting
them in any considerable numbers.
The copper mines in Michigan, Mon
tana, Utah, Nevada and Arizona are
gradually closing down, due to lack
Of immediate market for the product,
and 10000 men are already idle from
that one source.
A congressman asked level-head-
ed public official recently what would
happen if the unemployed in New
York and the East generally should
begin to riot. The answer Of the Of,
ficial was that such a point must not
be reached, because, in his judgment,
the troops now in this country were
not in a state Of mind TO be depended
upon to .'obey orders" where the url-
employed were involved. :
Wheat Guarantee Plan
81 IN contrast to the plans put out
more or less under the urging Of the
milling trust involving the appropr1-
alton of vast sum TO maintain the
guaranteed wheat price, Congressman
Young of North Dakota advises hold
ing up this price in the United States.
He points out that lower wheat prices
in Europe may be chiefly rumor and.
that the action proposed by the mill
inr interests would in itself tend to
break the European market.
aThe government is not under
pledge" says Congressman Young,
ITO restore speculation flour; nor is 1T
under obligation to help foreign ma
5tions to demoralize the wheat and
flour market. H we stand our ground,
the importing countries will come 70
as for wheat and our governments
total loss On the years crop Will be.
small. =
The government by following his
plan. declares Mr. Young, would at
most have TO make up = possible loss
On surplus wheat and flour shipped
abroad
wall Street Patriotism
wall streets Black Hundred, better
known perhaps "a the National Secur-
3itv league. has been receiving addi-
tional exposure BY the special conl lres-
.sional committee. Besides the $15Os-
600 contributed Nv the Carnegie cor
poration, it has been found thst prac-
jtically every one who counts "a VIII
sstreet came ii with Bic suhsc1jp Lions.
sc WA brought ont Tor instance, mat