Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-10-24

Ing the life out of the soviet govern
ment. Denikine kept up his advance
on Moscow. capturing Orel and other
important points. The army of the
northwest under Yudenitch took Luga
and pressed on toward Petrograd,
whose fall was imminent. This army,
it was said, was working in close I'M
Outstanding with Admiral Kolchak
whose Siberian troops were pushing
the bolsheviki back to the European
border. These three commanders have
| rejected all overtures from Germany,
maintaining their connection with the
/ allies.
i An official dispatch from Archangel
| said the North Russian forces WEI q
pursuing the bolsheviki in the direc-
! ton of Omega after occupying their
! fortified positions along the railroad,
capturing guns and prisoners and de-
stroying an armored train In fact,
thy seem to be doing very well with
out the help Of the British and Amer
lean troops that were withdrawn.
Meanwhile the British fleet in the
Baltic was very busy. The supreme
council having declared a blockade OF
all Russian bolshevik ports, a number
of German vessels were. seized. Then
the British warships moved on Kron-
] stadt. After a severe bombardment ii
was evacuated by the bolsheyiki and
| the fleet entered the .harbor. All neu.
tral nations have been asked to join
in the blockade of bolshevist Russia.
Lieutenant D'Annunzio seems to
have adopted more yielding attitude
in regard to Fiume, which he still
holds. He has sent to Premier Gle
menceau an appeal to take the initia.
tive in obtaining from the allied gov
ernments a declaration making Fiume
an open port. The present Italian plan
contemplates an independent buffer
state at Fiume with the extension of
Italian control over the strip of coast
from Fiume to Trieste so the new
state shall abut on Italian territory
on that side and not be surrounded
by Jugo-Slavia influence. The dan.
ger of war over this problem is fad.
ing D'Annunzio sent word to Paris
that he had drafted manifesto urging
both Serbs and italians to recognize
mutual national rights and to 'main-
tain the bonds of brotherhood which
have been sealed by blood.''
Prices of food throughout the Uni.
ted States have fallen almost % per
cent, according to Attorney General
Palmer. But housewives, also through.
out the United States, are asking why,
If this is true, they are forced TO pay
as much as ever or more when they
visit the retail dealer.
The cost of leather and of footwear
has dropped 20 per cent since the mid
die of August, says the president of
the National Boot and Shoe Manufac-
turers' association. But the consumer
is still paying exorbitant prices for
his shoes, and the aforesaid president
explains that the shoes now being man
ufactured at reduced cost will not be
marketed before next April.
The tremendous hullabaloo about
reducing the cost Of living and punish
ing the profiteer has dwindled until
it car scarcely be heard with the aid
Of a microphone. Just at present the
consumer is exercised about the sugar
situation which promises to develop
into famine with % cents a pound
or more demanded for the small
amounts of sugar to be had. The do
nestle output is nowhere near enough,
and it seems most of the Cuban crop is
going to Europe Dealers blame our
government for this condition because
it limited the wholesale price while
European dealers were willing to pay
anything.
The federal trade commission came
| to bat again with another Of it's reports
| attacking the big packers, stating they
now handle more than 200 food prod
| ucts not related to the meat indus
try and bid fair to dominate the whole
sale grocery trade, dividing the field
among themselves.
| OF course the packers, this time
through Louis B. Swift. declared the
trade commissions figures were great
~ exaggerated and the conclusions
based on them utterly absurd. AS u.s.
ual, the "big five" can supply facts and
figures to uphold their entire inno-
cence, but for some reason the general
public has learned to look askance as
the statistics these gentlemen produce,
This may be due to what the trade COM
mission calls .the maze and secrecy
of the packers methods of conducting
/ much of his business"