Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1919-08-14
FOOD PROFITEERS
ARE DENOUNCED BY
PRESIDENT WILSON
Comprehensive Extension of the
Present Food Control Act
Is Recommended.
SITUATION CRITICAL AND Diff.
CULT AND MUST BE MET WITH
COURAGE AND RESOURCE.
Calm and Deliberate Consideration
Rather Than Hasty Action Is Called
For by the Present sltua-
ton OF the Country.

| Observation-Disclosures Of the pres
/ ent food control act, both as to It's pc
! Rod Of operation and to include all
commodities indisputably necessaries
/ of life, regulation Of cold storage to
/ define the limits within which food
| stuifs can be held; marking of all
| goods destined For Interstate com
/ merce with the price at which they
left the hands of the producer; fed
| eral licenses for all corporations and
/ persons engaged in Interstate com
merce, which win provide for com
1 petltive selling, and passage of the
/ pending bill giving the capital issues
/ committee control OF security issues,
are the remedies proposed by Presi-
/ dent Wilson in his address to con-
/ gress to meet the existing high cost
Of living.
The president said IN part:
Gentlemen of the Congress;
l have sought this opportunity to al
dress you because it lis clearly my duty
to call your attention to the present cost
Of living and 10 urge upon you with an
] Ale PERSUASIVE force OF WHICH am cHpdDle
! the legislative measures which would be
I most effective in controlling it and bring
I ing 10 down.
/ The prices the people Of this country are
/ paying for everything that It is necessary
( for them 20 use In order TO live are not
1 justified by shortage in supply, either
1 present or prospective, and are in many
cases artihcially and deliberately created
{ by vicious practices which ought imme-
I diatoly to be checked bv law
Profiteers Lawbreakers.
/ Some OF the methods by which these
/ prices are produced are already Illegal
I some Of them criminal. and those who
/ employ them will be energetically pro-
/ seeded against But others have not yet
/ been brought under the law. and should
/ be dealt with at once by legislation
With the increase IN the prices OF the
| necessaries OF life come demands for In
/ .reascs I'm wages-demands which are
| Justified n there be no other means OF
enabling men TO live.
Upon the increase OF wages there fol-
/ lows close an increase I'm the price OF the
/ products whose producers have been ac-
corded the incrcase-not a prOportionate
/ Increase for the manufacturer does not
/ content himself with that but an In
! crease considerably greater than the
added wage cost and for which the added
wage cost Is oftentimes hardly more than
an excuse.
The laborers who do not get an increase
! In pay when they demand It are likely
/ TO strike and the strike only makes mat
/ ters worse
! IL checks production, e II affects the
/ railways Il prevents distribution and
strips the markets, so that there is pres
emily nothing to buy, and here Is another
| excessive addition to prices resulting from
the scarcity,
Conditions Not Natural"
These are facts and forces with witch
we have become only too familiar. but
we are not justified because of our famil-
iarlty with them or because OF any hasty
and shallow conclusion that they are
natural" and Inevitable, IN sitting mac
lively by and letting them work their IA
I tai results Il there is anything that we
can do to check, correct or reverse them.
We must ! think, frankly admit that
| there is no complete immediate remedy
/ 10 be had from legislation and executive
| action, The free processes OF supply and
| demand viii not operate Of themselves,
and no legislative or executive action can
( force them into fun and natural operation
/ until there is peace
Must Know Terms of Peace.
| There can be no confidence I'm indus
| try no caIculable basis for credits. no
4 confident buying OF systematic selling.
+ no certain prospect OF employment. no
ma tstoratlou Of business, no
aefa tempt at reconstruction or
T~apeJ ssemblng OF the dislocated
#w.l euterpr SEE until peace has
.# tshed and. so far as may be.
EaH,at te1 Our national life has no
Heutt less radically disturbed nnd
IA ed than tho nai ma 81
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m The chief burden and
ga of the war tg and who
&e now most dependent urNn The CO.
operative action OF the W., nj
Exports Greatest IN n story.
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en-. OUT ports % Ioreigu m .rbets than
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former produNoo. f-eIe trtaet e
I their accustomed CT. from their own
fields. 4orcIsl r.ines sam, tHefr FORMER
output foruEH mere nts sat Hp ara S
their oid mac merry s.. trade With ta
I ends ~ rho eagth Au SIS ta.res niu9t
/ remain ~ et am pntl ace ls ast