The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-08-04
HITTING THE FOOD TRUST


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HITTING THE FOOD TRUST
The government will sell direct to
consumers, about $200,000,000 worth
of food stuffs bought for the army.
The food is to be sold at cost, plus
parcels post charges to point of de-
livery 1t is believed that San Fran
cisco will be the point of shipment for
Pacific coast points. Special ar
engagements will be made to carry
packages of much above the usual
weight for parcels post packages, in
the delivery of these goods.
That the sale Of this vast amount of
food products direct to the consumer
will have good effect in reducing the
cost of living is believed. One item,
especially, is noticeable in the price
reduction. Bacon, government in
spected and of the highest quality,
will be sold in crates, at "a cents.
Bacon in II pound tins, nicely packed
will sell for SO cents. To this will be
added the cost of parcels post, prob
ably A cents a pound. This will bring
bacon, for which people have been
paying 60 cents a pound, down to 40
cents, delivered, reduction of 33 1-3
per cent.
Tomatoes will sell for II cents a
can Other canned goods in proper
ton. Men of small means can buy
these goods from their local post
master and make big saving. If
every one who can do so will refuse
to patronize the big packing plants
which are said to have gained con-
troll of most of the food products of
the United States, for three weeks it
is believed there will be sharp de-
cline in all food prices.
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FORCING MEN INTO IDLENESS
The press reports TEEN with the in
terviews by labor leaders telling ex-
ultantly how many thousands of men
are idle in this strike or in that. The |
walking delegates" or business
agent of the various unions, who draw
$50 per week and expenses, not for
keeping men at work, but for keeping
as many as possible in idleness, seem
to think they have accomplished much
for the laboring man when they have
10000, or 100000 or 100000 men out
of work, tramping the streets, dis
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ty contributed by other laboring men :
who are at work.
We do not remember of reading any
by labor leaders where they
of men who are at work They claim
to be the laboring mans best friend !
and yet their efforts are always :
turned toward keeping him from work t
which is his only method Of earning h
a living.
Today we are told by the agitators :
who forced or induced the railroad d
shopmen to give up work contrary to a
he orders of their officers, that $780, n
400 men are idle and we expect to =
nave 1000 men on strike within a
'ew days" Isn't it strange that the
,oor deluded union man can not see
hat the man who takes from him the r
means of earning living is not his n
riend? 81
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Bella Kun, who dragged Hungary G
pwn to the very depths of degreda- n
ion, despair and starvation with his -
ocialistic, communistic ideas, and Ed
rdered men and women shot for beg
ing bread and protesting against his l
sign, is pictured as having "tears in
is eyes" when he surrendered the E
eigns of government and was escort
d, under armed guard, to save him
rnm assassination by those he had
,ronged, to an internment camp in a,
.ustria. Isn't it strange how tender fo
earted such beasts as Bella Kun, Lee q
inc, Trotsky, Constantine, of Greece, Il i.
nd Kaiser Bill become when they lose be
over and are brought down from the al
Fights they should never have at n
Iined? vr
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Norway will soon hold an election m "a
i the question of national prohibition If