The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1919-09-20
FOOD PR0FlrEERs
AXE DENOUNCED BY
PRESIDENT WILSON
commemorative . Extension of the
/ Present Food Control Act
Is Recommended.
c,'' CRITICAL AND DIFF.
AND MUST BE MET WITH
COURAGE AND RESOURCE.
and Deliberate Considerable,
manner Than Hasty Action Is called
OF oy the Present situa.
'on Of the Country

VIC country.
Observation-Disclosures NJ tha nro.
r,o. ioou control act, both as to It's M
ou u operation and to inclrao .,
IN. indisputably necessorie
me- regulation of cold STORAGE =
stnn e the limits within which food
.uns can be held; marking Of al
1913 destlned for Interstate com
49,. with the price at which the,
, the hands of the producer. ted
iai licenses for all Corporations onl
persons engaged In interstate com
. ee' which will provide for com
peu.ive selling. and passage Of the
o"ng Dill giving the capital issues
oanmittee control of security issuas
tne remedies proposed by presi.
vent wilson, In his address IN ron.
SIess to meet the existing high enc,
OF living. sA ''s'
The president said in part:
Sentiemen OF the Congress:
A.. sought this opportunity 10 ID
- you because 1t is clearly NV duty
~ Iau your attention to the present cost
me persuasive force OF which an, % na h HLa
me legislative measures which would he
nus eHecuve In controlling 1t and bring
Ing 1t down. 0 " iiis
me prices the people of this country are
payins Tor everything that it is necessary
III tnem TO use In order to live are not
sus.neo oy shortage in supply, either
l OF prospective. and are in many
cases artihcially and deliberately created
~ vicious practices which ought imme-
olateiy to be checked by law
Profteers Lawbreakers.
some OF the methods by which these
ptices are produced are already illegal.
some OF them criminal, and those who
Employ them will be energeticaly pro
ceeoed against. But others have not vet
Seen brought under the law, and should
We ueait with at once by legislation.
with the increase in the prices Of the
accessories of life come demands for in
creases in wages-demands which are
Sustined II 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- |
coroeo tne increase-not 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 ID cftentimes hardly more than |
IN excuse.
The laborers who do not get an increase
y pay when they demand II are likely
70 strike, and the strike only makes mat
ksrs worse.
II checks production; II II affects the
ALWAYS It prevents distribution and
Itrips the markets; so that there Is pres
Dntly nothing to buy, and there Is another
lxcessive addition to prices resulting from
he scarcity.
Conditions Not Natural"
These are facts and forces with which
" have become only too familiar: but |
re are not justified because of our famil-
arfty with them or because Of any hasty
nd shallow conclusion that they are
natural and inevitable. In sitting mac
lively by and letting them work their ia
Al results II there Is anything that we
IN do to check, correct or reverse them.
We must, think, frankly admit that
here Is no complete immediate remedy
, be had from legislation and executive
ction. The free processes Of supply and
emand will not operate Of themselves,
nd no legislative or executive action can
,rce them into full and natural operation
ntil there is peace.
Must Know Terms Of Peace.
There can be no confidence in indus q
y, no. calculable basis for credits, no O
nfident buying of systematic selling, h
certain prospect of employment no D
,rmal restoration of business no r
'peful attempt at reconstruction or e
oper reassembling of the dislocated a
sments of enterprise until peace has h
en- established. and, so far as may be. 7
aranteed. Our national life has no | O.
ubt been less radically disturbed and ii
than the national life of Il
her peoples whom the war more di- II
city affected, with all it's terrible o,
vaging and destructive force but it W
8 been nevertheless profoundly at W
ted and disarranged, and our indus 81
es, our credits, our productive ca ST
city, our economic processes are In ca
tricably interviewer with those of "a
Ter nations and peoples-most init m
tely Of all with the nations and peo- ad
o upon whom the chief burden and pr
fusion of the war fell and who
now most dependent upon the CO.
.rative action Of the world. er
Exports Greatest In History. pa
ye are Just now shipping more goods an
Of our ports to foreign markets than err
ever shipped before-not foodstuffs ms
ely, but stuffs and materials Of every fu
/: but this is no index of what our WI
,lgn sales will continue to be or of OF
effect the volume Of our exports tht
have on supplies and prices. 1t is giI
ossible yet to predict how far or ior
long foreign purchasers will be pu
to find tie money or the credit to L
for or sustains such purchases on the
a scale; how soon or to what extent be
ign manufacturers can resume their dur
ner production. foreign farmers get and
r accustomed crops from their own sha
q: foreign mines resume their former I,
,i.t foreign merchants set up AGAIN ma
r old macninery of trade with the to
, of the earth. An these things must ma
ain uncertain until peace is esteb-' dis
u and the nations of the world have sta