Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1919-06-18

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heavy paper packages in which they
are marketed. Their profit on this
paper is from $50 to 500 per cent,
thanks to Doctor sAlsberg's decision.
There was published in this expose
some of the packers secret CORE
spondence, showing how they sent for
mer Solicitor McCabe of the depart
ment of agriculture to Washington as
their agent, to get this decision, and
how he was paid $4,000 for the trick.
1t added nearly 2 cents a pound to
retail prices for sliced bacon
North Dakota's Nonpartisan legis.
/ lature has enacted a net weight law
which corrects- this injustice to the
consumer, insofar as that state is con-
cerned..
Now Senator Gore of Oklahoma and
Representative Sweet of Iowa have
introduced identical bills, amending
the pure food act, so as to construe
the word package" to include wrap
ped meats Enclosed in papers or other
materials. This cuts of the met
weight" graft
The bill may be made a rider to tho
agricultural appropriation bill, but IL
that fails it will be given special hear
ings before the house committee on
Interstate and foreign commerce, and
.. will be carried to separate rollcall.
1t has the support of the federal trade
commission, the National Wholesale
Grocers' association, the United Mas.
ter Butchers of America and the Ma,
tional Consumers league. It is known
as S. 1928 in the senate, and as H. r.
1922 in the house.
Bolivian Sees Change.
In his address to the an-American
| commercial conference here this week.
Senior Don Ignacio Calderon, minister
from Bolivia, threw a momentary chill
upon the blazing profit hopes of some
of the assembled exporters and bank.
ers when he said:
''The world is alive with the spirit
Of freedom and right We would fail
to read the signs of the times If we
thought that this great upheaval is
merely political. Society is shaking
from it's foundations, and new hopes
are being cherished everywhere. Many
years ago so-called captains OF in.
ton of the relations of capital to the
public and the wage-earners in a way
that showed the greatest contempt for
the public and the workmen. Today
any man or corporation that would
1 ignore the right of the public to a
proper and just treatment, or pretend
that workingmen must be satisfied
with whatever they are given, would
be considered an enemy Of the com:
munity.
"The autocracy Of capital is passing
away"
Senate Favors Ireland.
When the senate of the United
States. on June 6, registered vote
of 60 to in favor of Irish self-de.
termination, and asked the president
to secure a hearing for the leaders of
the movement for Irish independence
before the peace conference in Paris,
it took the first important step in it's
new course of sharing responsibility
for our foreign policy with President
Wilson. The Borah resolution, calling
for international recognition for the
government, republican in form, es.
tablished by the people of Ireland
was not adopted, it is true, but the
compromise which did secure this
nearly unanimous vote meant the
same thing. It asked the American
peace delegates to see that Edward
de Valera, Arthur Grifflths and Count
Plunkett, the three highest officials OF
the Sim Fem republic, shall be heard
by the Paris conference, and it con
tanned this further clause, proposed
by Senator Walsh of Massachusetts
Democrat: THAT the senate of the
United States expresses it's sympathy
with the aspirations of the Irish PEG
pie for a government of their OWL
choice"
So the senate has declared for {
free Ireland. 1t may later declare fol
up the doctrine announced last yea
by President Wilson, but abandoned
by him when he agreed to the Pari,
! treaty-that every people has thu
| right to determine the sovereign.
+ and the form of government unde
. which it shall live.
p "Don't Give Up the Ships"
Senator Fletcher of Florida, forme
chairman of the senate committee Of
q commerce, has coined the slogan
q Don't Give Up the Ships!" In oppo
I sition to the campaign Of the big shiI
4 ping combine and Chairman Hurle
4 of the shipping board, who want tn
!. government to close out its $4,000
:. 100000 worth Of ships to private Owl
ership and operation, and to sell the1
, at bargain.
O. How Criticism Helps.
:. Censure and criticism never hur
+ anybody. If false they can't hurt yo
a unless you are wanting In manly chal
4 acter: and If true they show a ma
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