The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-11-04
INVESTIGATE PRoFITEERING.

INVESTIGATE PROf1I EEh1NO.
In some places grand juries are in
vestigating charges CT profiteerine
and a prominent Moscow citizen has
suggested to The Star-Mirror that the
grand. jury now in session in Moscow
might find some work along this line
He charges that he had paid Sill per
cord for very poor wood and that a
woman had complained 70 him that
she had been charged $3.50 for wood
while he contended that he had paid
S12 for coal when the government has
fixed a price ranging from $3.50 to
s4.6O at the mine mouth for soft coal.
He charged that he had been requir-
ed to pay exorbitant prices for many
necessities.
If these charges are true and this
man does, as he suggested he would
do-go before the grand J'!ry and ask
an investigation, there might be some
interesting facts brought oft. That
people are paying too much for the
necessities of life is un1isputed. Eve
ry one pleads not. guilty TO profiteer-
ing and points to some one else. The
retailer, wholesaler, manufacturer
and producer all claim they are MAX
ing less profit than before the war.
yet everything used by man has adj
vanced about 100 per cent. 1t would
be real interesting to get at the actual
facts and ascertain where the prof
iteering is really being carried on.
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1t is really laughable to compare
the meek expression of John L. Lewis,
acting president of the United Mine
Workers of America, the man who,
more than any other, is responsible
for the strike which has made 1925, 200
of his union members idle and almost
stopped coal production, made today
with the blatant threats he made be-
fore the restraining order was served
upon him. He had announced that
1.-THE effects of this strike will be so
far reaching and the suffering it will
cause will be so intense that people
cannot stand it long and the strike
will end in a complete victory for the
When the restraining order
was served upon him, forDlddlng him
to, in any way, interfere with the pro-
duction of coal, and he realized that
peace has not been ratified; the Uni
ted States is still on war basis and
treason is punishable by blank wall
and a firing squad, Lewis shut up so
light that a clam would appear as
United States senator in fun voice as
with him. Today he meekly
stated that it is not too late to get
together and end the strike 1t does
lot seem possible that this is the
same John L. Lewis who walked out
If the conference d. Washington last
week and announced that nothing |
short of six-nou" day, five -day |
week and so per cent increase in |
wages will be considered by the min
rs"
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The announcement that the Spokane
! Inland Empire electric railroad will
lot be scrapped but will be improved
nd operated and made to serve this
ountry and Spokane is good news
0 Moscow, to Latah county, to the
'alouse country and Spokane. The
abroad has had hard struggle.
When jim Hill got control of it he
RED to strangle it and almost wreck
d the system that was one of the best I
seders of his entire system. 1t ran ,
trough one of the most fertile and !
roductive sections of the west, yet :
as so abused that it went into the
ands Of a receiver. Moscow people
lould give the road a liberal patron c
re. 1t is a Moscow asset and is worth
UGH to the town.
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Only II Moscow people renewed {
cir membership in the Red Cross
onday. This is not record OF which Il
oscow can be proud. "The Greatest e
other in the World" needs your dol E
r worse than you need it. Do with = I
t dollars worth of something you !,
ally do not need and join the great a
/ organization of humanity loving
ople in the world. Let Us run Mos
VS. membership to at least $500. r
cry MOSCOW home ought to have t