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The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-08-15
THE MARKETS

FLOUR-Per Dbl, 9S-lb. sack basis: Corn
flour, $500; white rye. in jute. $500; dark
rye. $50: spring wheat, special brands.
hard winter. $ll. 0Qi1.50; soft winter.
$11.50; new hard winter, In jute. $l0.300
1900; new soft winter. slO.O0Il 80.
HAY-Choice timothy, $35. O0036.00; No. /,
$50. 0 500; standard, s34 0d36.00; No. l
light clover mixed. $3i. 00I35. 90: No. 2 timo-
thy, $33. OO434OO; sample. $2l. 0OQ2G.0 90: clover,
SIG. Goa 19.0 90.
CATTLE-Prime steers, Sl6.C0IlS. -: good
to choice steers, $14OO1l6. 80; medium to
good steers. sl2.N1l4 %; plain TO medium
steers. 81. 0O012.5O; yearlings. fair to
choice. ST.. 500lS 100; stockers and feeders,
$9.0OQ12.25: good to prime cows. sl0.O00l2.50:
fair to prime heifers, $l3. Goa l6 90: fair to
good cows. S.504 1000: Gamers, s.. I546.25:
cutters, $635@70; bologna bulls. IS. 2Ja9.O 90:
butcher bulls. $10.GOQl3.OO: veal calves.
ST.. 500l9.75.
HOGS-Choice light butchers, l.750
22.50; medium weight butchers. 2.J-270 lbs.
$21. 500 2. 40: heavy weight butchers. 270-350
lbs. $2l.O0d22.M: mixed packing. $c0.O09
21.50: heavy packing. $19.O0@20. rs: rough
packing. $1S.50Ql9,7 70; pigs. fair to good.
$16.O0@lS.OO: stays Subject to so lbs. dock
age), $l9. O0Q21.OO.
SHEEP-Yearlings. s1O.0o1le.5 so: breeding
ewes, $40 0113.50: western lambs. $l5.500
100; native lambs, $13.50Gl6.50: feeding
lambs. $l30Oa14.25; western wethers. $1,000
1850: native ewes. fair to choice. $500
800; bucks. S3.0OQS.50.
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Race Troubles Result in Strike.

Chicago.-A general strike of 33, 900
employees at the packing plants in the
stock yards began at 9 o'clock Friday
morning. The action followed the de-
cision Of the stock yards labor council
to call a general strike unless the state
troops and police guards were imme-
diately Withdrawn from the plants.
The strike was precipitated by the re-
turn Of 5000 negroes to work. The
|6rst workmen to walk out were 400
pork cutters in the G.. III. Hammond
Packing Company.
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FIGURES SUBMITTED FOR Gulp
ANcE OF PUBLIC ON SUB
sIsTENcE STORES.
GALES TO COMMENCE AUG. re
Quotations Are r. O. 8. at Distrihut
ing Points, the Purchaser Paying
Parcel Post Rates-Orders Received
Through ~Postmasters.

Washington, ID. C.-The war depart
ment made public a complete price list
on all subsistence stores available fol
sale to the public through the parce.
post or through municipal selling agen.
cies. Costs of the commodities to the
government, the department said, had
been disregarded entirely in fixing the
prices of sale, which are materially
lower than prevailing rates.
The prices quoted are I. o. b. from
storage points in each Of the thirteen
districts into which the country is
divided for war department subsis
tence purposes. The department now
is re-distributing the food supplies in
the thirteen areas in order that each
may have its proper proportion pei
population Of the seventy articles OIL
food.
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Arrest Sugar Baron.

Pittsburgh, Pa.-Charged with con-
'spiracy to violate the federal food
George w. Sheehan, of Chicago,
president of the Central Sugar COM
bany, was arrested by federal agents
here. Sheehan was arrested when he
appeared at the federal building to at
lend the hearing of three local officials
bf the company, who are charged with
klleged price gouging in the sale OF
The Central Sugar Company.
In Illinois corporation, is alleged to
(sye been selling sugar here at "a
Esats a pound wholesale.
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BIG SALE OF ARMY STOCK
Of Deal, Paris Paper Says
100000, 900 in Deal.

Paris, Aug. 9.-An agreement for
the sale of American army stocks in
France for $4O0,000,0OO was signed,
says Marcel Hutin in the Echo De
Paris. He declares that arrangements
were made for q longtime credit, so
that France will not have to bear the
high rates of exchange which prevails
at present.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-08-15
BRIEF ITEMS OF THE VIEWS

Three men held up the State bank
ut Lake Elmo. Mimi and escaped
with $4,000.
The chamber Of deputies ut Brussels
unanimously ratified the peace treaty
with Germany.
a Lisbon dispatch says Antonio Al
media was elected president of the
Portuguese republic.
British destroyers have sunk Il boil
ehevist submarine in the Baltic. the
admiralty at London announced.
The allies mission in Budapest dele
gated governmental authority to Arch
duke Joseph when the Peidil govern
Inent resigned.
Peace has been made between Great
Britain and Afghanistan. A peace
agreement was signed ut London, 1t Is
officially announced.
Joe Ridgeway, who was severely
cut in the street car riots Tuesday
night at Muskegon, Mich, died, the
first victim of the disorder.
Warrants were issued for the arrest
of three officers OF the Pittsburgh
branch Of the Central Sugar company
Of Chicago, charged with profiteering.
King George at London conferred
upon Premier David Lloyd George the
Order of Merit as a sign of his ap-
probation Of the premier'S war serv-
y strike on the trans-Siberian rail
way is becoming Il serious menace. All
traffic, including military trains, is at
a s%tandstill, according to Il Picking
dispatch.
A resolution setting forth Chile's
acceptance of the League of Nations
covenant was approved by the senate
at Santiago de Chila without a dis
senting vote.
About 600 employees of Cudahy
Bros company packing plant At Mil
Waukee went on strike demanding rec
0anitiOn Of their union, the mems lead
ers announced.
Governor Philip at Madison, Wis,
issued Il proclamation to the people Of
the state asking that dealers in the
necessities of life desist from charging
abnormal prices.
Negroes employed on paving work
a. Lexington, 10 miles west of Lin
coin, Neb., were forced to leave town
by a white mob. A negro shack was
riddled with bullets.
a $lO,000,00O program of construc-
ton was decided on by the municipal
council of Santiago, Chile, in order to
give work to the unemployed and al
leviate the social unrest.
A Halifax dispatch says 20 persons
are believed to have lost their lives
when the schooner Gallia was sunk
Wednesday night in a collision with
the British steamer Water Witch.
The Stockholm Social Demokraten
reports that A%rchangel is in the hands
of the bolsheviki, who, it says, have
succeeded in cutting the connections
between the Thurman and Archangel
coasts.
The cOuntry'S corn crop showed q
decrease of 27,052,0 600 bushels as Il re-
suit Of weather and other conditions
during JulW according to a report is
sued by the department Of agriculture
at Washington.
Four persons known to be dead,
probably six seriously wounded, prop
erty and crop damage estimated at
more than 100000 and 200 families
driven from their homes was the toll
q ~ aA. -
northern Ohio, near Tiffin.
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P~rofiteers lawbreakers.

Some OF the methods by which these
prices are produced are already illegal,
some Of them criminal, and those who
employ them will be ~energetically pro-
ceeded against. But others have not yet
been brought under the law, and should
be dealt with at once by legislation.
! need not recite the particulars Of this
critical matter; the prices demanded and
paid at the sources Of supply, at the fac
tory, In the food markets, at the shops,
In the restaurants and hotels, alike in the
city and in the village.
They are familiar to you. They are the
talk Of every domestic circle and Of every
group of casual acquaintance even. 1t Is
a matter OF familiar knowledge also, hat
a process has set in which is likely, unless
something is done. to push prices and
rents and the whole cost of living higher
n yet higher, In a vicious cycle to which
there is no logical or natural end.
With the increase in the prices OF the
necessaries Of life come demands for in
creases in wages-demands which are
justified if there be no other means of
enabling men to live.
Upon the increase Of wages there fol-
lows close an increase in the price OF the
products whose producers have been ac-
corded the increase-not a proportionate
Increase, for the manufactures does not
content himself with that, but al 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 1t are likely
to strike. and the strike only makes mat
ters worse.
1t checks production; IL II affects the
railways it prevents distribution and
strips the markets; so that there is pres
entity nothing to buy. and there is another
excessive addition to prices resulting from
the scarcity.
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Buyer to Pay Postal Rate.

The price tables include individual.
units in each case and also the price
per case or larger containers. 1t also
shows the gross weight per can and
per case in order that the public may
arrive at the price they will have tc
pay by adding parcel post rates from
the nearest distributing point to the
home of the consumer to the I. o. b
price quoted.
Municipal selling agencies will com
pute freight charges on these ship
ments to be added to the price quoted
by the war department. On the parcel
post distribution no orders will be re.
ceived direct by the war department,
but only through the p~ostoffice de-.
partment, which will requisition the
supplies by case or larger package,
the postmasters in turn breaking these
shipments up into unit packages of a
single al or several cans.
Municipality purchases at the new
prices will begin as soon as the surplus
property Offices at the various zone
supply offices and depots have received
the quotations made publlc today.
Sales to individuals through the parcel
post will be inaugurated August Is.
Some Quotations.
Quotations on, some OF the leading
commodities are.
Bacon, $4.15 per can of II pounds;
corned beef, So cents for a can of 1.36
pounds; baked beans, S cents for can
of Ia pounds; sweet corn, 10 cents
per 2A-pound can; dry beans, $6.43
per 100 pounds; crackers, 5 and 6
cents a pound; army -four, So per 100
pounds; macaroni, z cents per ~
pounds; rolled oats, II cents per 2
pounds; seeded ~raisins, 10 cents per
pound; rice, 1914 per 100 pounds; to-
matoes, 8 cents per 2-pound can, and
white corn meal, $3.50 per 100 pounds"
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snain For World Leanue.

Madrid, Observation-Disclosures ap,
proved the proposal that Spain join
the league of nations.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-08-15
Spain to Join World LEAGUE.

Madrid, Aug. 9.-Parliament approx
ed to-day the proposal that Spain join
the League of Nations.
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President Addresses Congress on
Subject of High Cost
of Living.
LAWS ARE NOT ADEQUATE
Chief Executive Declares "Vicious
Practices" Are Responsible for
Perilous Situation Which Faces
the Nation-Makes lmpor-
tant Recommendations.

Washington. - Addressing congress
and proposing remedies to check the
high cost of living, President Wilson
declared that existing laws were made
quate and that high prices were not
justified by shortage of supplies, pres
ent or prospective, but were created in
many cases "artiicially and deliber-
ately" by vicious practices"
The president recommended that the
food control act be extended to
peace time operation and that congress
exclude from interstate as well rs
intrastate shipments goods which did
not comply with its provisions.
His address was as follows:
Gentlemen Of the Congress:
/ have sought this opportunity to ad-
dress you because it is clearly my duty
to call your attention to the present cost
of living and TO urge upo You with all
the persuasive force Of which ] am capable
the legislative measures which would be
most effective in controlling it and bring
ing it down.
The prices the people OF this country are
paying for everything that ii is necessary
for them TO use in order to live are not
justified by a shortage in supply, either
present or prospective, and are in many
cases artificially and deliberately created
by vicious practices which ought imme-
diately TO be checked by law.
They constitute a burden upon us which
is the more unbearable because we know
that 1t is wilfully imposed by those who
have the power and that il can by vigor-
Gus public action be greatly lightened and
made to square with the actual conditions
OF supply and demand.
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V. S. Must Hold World Steady.

We, and we almost alone, now hold the
world steady. Upon our steadfastness and
self-pOssession depend the affairs of ma
tons everywhere. 1t is in this supreme
c~risis-this crisis for all mankind-that
American must prove her mettle.
In the presence Of a world confused, dis
traCted, she must show herself self-pos-
sessed, self-contained, capable OF sober
and effective action. She saved Europe
by her action in arms; she must now save
IL by her action in peace.
In saving Europe she will save herself,
as she did upon the battletields of the
war. The calmness and capacity with
which she deals with. and masters the
problems of peace will be the final test
and proof Of her place among the peoples
Of the world.
And, if only in our own interest, we
must help the people overseas. Europe is
our biggest customer. We must keep her
going or thousands of our shops and
scores Of our mines must close. There is
no such thing as letting her 60 to ruin
without ourselves sharing i'm the disaster.
In such circumstances. face to face
with such tests, passion must be discard
ed. Passion and a disregard for the
rights of others have no place in the
counsels of Il free people. We need light,
not heat. in these solemn times Of self
examination and saving action.
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Conditions Not Natural"

These are facts and forces with which
we have become only too familiar: but
we are not justified because OF our famil-
iarity 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
tai results IL there is anything that we
can do TO check, correct or reverse them.
/ nave sought this opportunity to in
form the congress the executive Is
doing by way of remedy and control, and
to suggest where effective legal remedies
are lacking and may be supplied.
We must. / think. frankly admit that
there Is no complete Immediate remedy
to be had from legislation and executive
action. The free processes Of supply and
demand will not operate of themselves,
and no legislative or executive action can
force them into full and natural operation
until there Is peace.
There is now neither peace nor war.
All the world IL waiting-with what un-
nerving fears and haunting doubts who
can adequately ~say?-waiting to know
when il shall have peace and what kind
Of peace 1t will be when 1t comes-a peace
In which a nation shall make shift for
itself as Ii can, or q peace buttressed and
supported by the will and concert of
the nations that have the purpose and the
POWCA " w III " Chio " Whdt Is tiShl.
Politically, economically, socially, the
world is on the operating table, and II has
not been possible to administer any anaes-
thetic. 1t Is conscious. 1t even watches
the capital operation upon which 1t knows
hat its hopes of healtbful life depends.
II cannot think its business out or make
plans or give Intelligent and provident d.
rection to It's affairs while In such a case.
Where there is no peace OF mind there
can be no energy In endeavor.
Must Know Terms Of Peace.
There can be no confidence In indus
try. no calculable basis for credits, no
confident buying Of systematic selling.
no certain prospect OF employment. no
normal restoration Of business, no
hopeful attempt at reconstruction or a
proper reassembling OF the dislocated
elements of enterprise until peace has
been established. and, SO far as may be.
guaranteed. Our national life has no
doubt been less radically disturbed and
di~smembered than h national life of
other peoples whom the war more di-
rectly affected. with all it's terrible
ravaging and destructive force. but II
has been nevertheless. profoundly af-
fected and d~isarranged. n our indus.
tries. our credits. our productive
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-08-15
Must All Work Together.

Threats and undue insistence upon
the interest Of a single class. make set
Element impossible. I believe, as !
have hitherto had occasion to say to
the congress. that the industry and life
Of our people and Of the world will
suffer ~irreparable damage IL employers
and workmen are to 60 on in a perpet-
ual contest. as antagonists. They
must, on one plan or another, be effec-
lively associated. Have we not stead
mess n self-possession and business
sense enough to work out that result?
In the meantime-now and In the
days of readjustment n recuperation
that are ahead Of us--let us resort
more and more to frank and intimate
counsel and make ourselves a great
and t~riuniphal nation. making our
selves a united force In the life of the
world. " will not then have looked "a
us for Ira hsrship In vain
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-08-15
Must Be No Threats.

There must be no threats. Let there be
only intelligent counsel, and let the best
reasons win, not the strongest brute
force. The world has just destroyed the
arbitrary force of a military junta. 1t
will live under no other. All that is ar
bitrary and coercive is in the discard.
Those who seek to employ ii only prepare
their own destruction.
We cannot hastily and overnight revo-
lutionize all the processes Of our eco
monte life. We shall not attempt to do
so. These are days of deep excitement
and of eXtravagant speech. but with us
these are things Of the surface.
Everyone who is in real touch with the
silent masses of our great people knows
that the old strong fiber and steady self
control are still there, firm against Vio-
lence or any distempered action that
would throw their affairs into confusion.
1 am s%erenely confident that they will
readily find themselves. no matter what
the circumstances, and that they will ad-
dress themselves to the tasks of peace
with the same devotion and the same
stalwart preference for what is right that
they displayed TO the admiration of the
whole world in the midst Of war.
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Sinister Influences at Work.

And | enter another confident hope. l
have spoken today chiefly of measures
of imperative regulation and legal COM
pulsion, of prosecutions and the sharp
correction of selfish processes; and these
no doubt are necessary.
But there are other forces that we may
count on besides those resident in the
department. of justice. We have just
fully awakened to what has been going
on and to the influences, many of them
very selfish and sinister, that have been
producing high prices and imposing an
intolerable burden on the mass Of our
people.
To have brought it all into the open
will accomplish the greater part of the
result we seek.
/ appeal with entire confidence to
our producers, our middlemen and our
merchants to deal fairly with the peo-
pie. 1t is their opportunity to show
that they comprehend, that they in
tend to act justly, and that they have
the public interest sincerely at heart
And 1 have no doubt that house
Keepers all over the country, and ev-
eryone who buys the things he daily
stands in need of will presently exer-
else a greater vigilance, a more
thoughtful economy, a more discrimi-
mating care as to the market in which
he buys or the merchant with whom
he traded than he has hitherto exer-
ciyaJ
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Few Price Drops Not Enough.

In a few foodstuffs the prices had de-
clined, but in nothing like the proportion
in which the supply had increased. For
example, the stock of canned tomatoes
had increased 1O2 per cent, and yet the
price had declined only . cents per
dozen cans. In some cases there had
been the usual result Of an increase Of
price following a decrease Of supply, but
in almost every instance the increase of
price had been disproportionate 10 the
decrease In stock.
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Law Would Do Much.

Such a law would afford a welcome OPP
p~ortunity to effect other much-needed re-
forms In the business of interstate ship
ment and in the methods of corporations
which are engaged in II; but for the mo-
ment i confine my recommendations to the
object Immediately in hand, which Ia to
lower the cost of living. A
May l not add that there Is a bill now
pending before the congress Which, IL
passed. would do much to stop speculation
and to prevent the fraudulent methods OF
promotion by which our people are an
nually feeced Of many millions Of hard
earned money. I refer to the measure
proposed by the capital issues committee
for the control of security issues. 1t Is a
measure formulated by men who know
the actual conditions of business, and its
adoption would serve -auGnNat n beEe-
ua6fRs pusP011
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Labor Must Consider.

l believe, too, that the more ex-
IRENE leaders of organized labor will
presently yield to a sober second
thought. and like the great mass Of
their associates, think and act like
true Americans. They will see that
strikes undertaken at this critical time
are certain to make matters worse,
not better-worse for them and for
everybody else.
The worst thing, the most fatal
thing-that can be done now is to stop
or interrupt production. or to interfere
with the distribution of goods by the
railways II the shipping of the
country.
We are all involved in the dis
tressing results of the high cost Of
living and we must unite, not divide,
to correct it.
There are many things that ought
to be corrected in the relations be-
tween capital and labor, in respect
of wages and conditions of labor and
other things even more far-reaching
and /, for one, am ready to go into
conference about these matter with
any group of my fellow c~ountrymen
who know what they are talking about
and are willing to remedy existing
conditions by frank counsel rather
than by violent contest.
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Retailers in Part to Blame.

There can be little doubt that retail
ers are in part-sometimes in large
part-responsible for exorbitant prices;
and it is quite practicable for the gov
rnmen through the agencies l have
mentioned. to supply the public with
full Information as to the prices at
which retailers buy and as to the costs
of transportation they pay in order
that 1T may be known just what mar
gin Of profit they are demanding. Opin-
ion and concerted action on the part Of
purchasers can probably do the rest.
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General Interest First.

No remedy is possible while men are
in a temper, and there can be no set
Element which does not have as it's
motive and the general in
terest.