The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-01-30
HOOVER FOR PRESIDENT.

special dispatches ueIGlu are dloU iC'
served.
HOOVER FOR PRESIDENT.
Some newspapers are trying to
start a boom for Herbert Hoover
head of the food administration, for
president. 1t is not generally known
whether Mr. Hoover is democrat or
republican and the papers that are
boosting him probably do not know.
But that makes little difference.
Mr.. Hoover is an impossibility as a
presidential candidate. He could not
carry any agricultural district in the
United States The farmers would
not support him. Hoover fixed the
price of the farmers wheat at So
per bushel and fixed the price of
flour, mill feed and other products
of wheat He also fixed the amount
of wheat flour that people could use,
requiring them to use from one-fifth
to one-half wheat flour substitutes,
including almost everything that
could be made into anything resemb-
ling flour The price of wheat and
flour were fixed by the food admin
istration and there was no appe
But Hoover and his food admin
stration could not, would not, or at
least did not fix any limit on the
prices to be charged for flour sub
stitutes. With corn selling for from
half to three-fifths as much as wheat,
corn flour sold for nearly double the
price of wheat flour and the people
were compelled to use that or some
other substitute on which the profit
GERS were making an enormous profit
A farmer who was forced to sell his
wheat for 50 per bushel and buy flour
at 2.75 to 1925 per sack and buy an
equal number of pounds of corn flour
or other substitutes for which he
would have to pay from 81 to SIS,
could not conscientiously vote for Mr..
Hoover for president.
A man who was perfectly willing
that every dealer in food products
except the farmer who produced it,
should make enormous profits dur
ing the war, would not get much sup |
port for president from the agricul
tural districts. If Hoover could fix
a positive and absolute limit to the
maximum prices for farm products
wheat and live hogs) but could not
TX a price on anything else, he would
make a mighty poor president. We
want man more versatile than Mr..
Hoover has shown himself to be.
"a IA "a
ITO THE DAY"
The /. w. w. are following the dual
Example of the Germans and the Boil
heviki of Russia. They are planning
o overthrow the government and es-
ablish anarchy under the monde
,lume of "soviet" government here.
And they have set date for the over
brow of the government, and, like
he Germans who had planned the
var they started and lost decades
efore it actually burst upon the
1orld, they refer in their discussions
nd their literature Ito the day"
If the heads Of the |. w. w. were
OF solid ivory they could look back
nd see how both of these countries
ave Jared. Germany, for years,
rank toasts ''to the day" when she
ou1d destroy the English fleet and
ecome master of the seas. The "day"
anne and Germany hoisted white
ag and surrendered her fleet with
1T firing shot, sneaking out like
wards and turning the entire fleet
er to England and her allies.
The Russians tried to run soviet"
,velnment along the lines planned
the |. w. w. and today tens Of
ousands of Russians are starving,
ere is no food, no work, no govern
emit. Armed mobs Of cruel savages
under the country, killing and steal
: and burning, while men and
men are begging to be shot to
old slow death by starvation.
What we need here is vigilence
nmittee patterned after those OF
Iifornia and Montana in the early
VS., which will arrest, try and exc
e every 1. W. w. or other anar-
st who tries to destroy the bes.
,ernment ever established on the
tn. A few lynchings would stop
propaganda. Butte, Montana,
had no trouble since Little was
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