Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1920-09-22
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER

3TON METER
ment of the men. Tire roads could
we'll have afforded to give this small
number Of men 90 vital to rail opera
ton a square deal and 20 settled the
matter before It started. Rail execu.
tives acknowledged that the switch.
men were not fairly paid. Perhaps
the failure to do 80. If properly trac-
ed, would lead into tho inner Offices Of
high finance. The rail congestion
stopped production and kept up trust
prices. It also enabled the railroad f.
nanc1ers to get everything"
Gruneau and 40 other leaders were
indicted under the wartime food law
clever act), charged with "interfer-
ing with interstate shipments of neces-
stiles of life" This act, of course, has
been interpreted as applying only to
interference by labor. Eighty carloads
of potatoes dumped into the Delaware
river recently and like tricks have
brought no indictments. Labor only is
LlPToN's ADVERTISING
Frank Harris, well-known English
author and now editor of Pearson's
magazine, advances the idea that Sir
Thomas Upton may not have beeL es-
r"cially interested in winning the re-
cent yacht race. The reason he as
ic hot h1
another race next year. AS an adver-
Using stunt the world probably has
lie thing to compare with the Upton ei-
forts to win the cup. For the price of
yacht and a few weeks expense
Lipton's teas received front-page men
ton for over. a month in the papers
Of two continents.
Harris points out that Upton lost
his chance for the cup when he al
lowed the last race to be called off
because of a 2O-knot wind-merely
good breeze for a boat which. had
crossed the ocean under it's own sail.
'This Idea that it was all cleverly
planned advertising" says Harris,
'came into my head when I saw Lord
Dewar prominently featured beside
Upton. Lord Dewar used to be Tom
Dewar, head of whisky producing
firm. Very like Sir Thomas Upton,
not noted for producing the best stuff,
but the cheapest. Haig & Haig make
better whisky, but Dewar sells more
of his cheaper article"
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We might as we'll give up hope o:
ever getting rid of the wicked So
cialists, Bolshevists and other fellows
of like character, for it seems that
while it takes million dollars or
more to make good American, the
merest trifle of opposition to monopoly
business harbored in the human heart
makes the possessor thereof a Bolshe-
visit.
In his Labor Day speech, Candidate
Harding showed the whole Democratic
machine into the Communist class be-
cause during the war Wilson and the
Democratic congress took over the rail-
roads. Experts tell us that we can
never hope to see the negro race dis
appear in America because while it
takes 100 per cent white blood to
make white man, it takes only 1 per
cent Of negro blood to make a negro.
It looks as If about the same thing
were true Of the wicked Bolshevist and
the 100-per-cent American.
HARD COAL MINERS STRIKE
President Wilson was in his best
rhetorical form the other day in talk
ing back to the anthracite coal min
ers. After the miners officials, opera
tors and government representatives
had fixed up contract, the miners
throughout the whole region refused
to accept it.
It was a raw deal on the whole. The
men were not allowed, for instance, to
submit carefully prepared statistics on
costs of mining and profits. The lead
ers probably thought it was the best
they could do. Common people, on the
other hand, are likely to fail to see
how the cards are stacked against
them and to strike out blindly at injus-
tice suddenly realized.
Remembering that coal operators
throughout the country in 1916 tore up
the contracts they had with consumers
to force higher prices, listen to this
from the pen of our chief executive:
I'VE could not look the world in the
face or Justify our action to our own
people and our own conscience If we
yielded one iota to the men in tho an
thracite coal fields who are violating
the contract 20 recently entered into
between themselves, the coal operators
and the government Of the United
States"
He reminded the miners that we had
foughtth last war to end such prac.
! tice but did not mention that nearly
! every public utility franchise in this
country has since been torn up"
Last April the anthracite coal oper
ators added 81 ton as insurance
against wage increase and the com
mission allowed the workers so cents
a ton. The 81 ton remains in opera
ton and consumers In Washington ar.
paying from 1910 to IS a ton more.
Brentwood Wis.-That the potat.
crop this season will be as low al 81
per cent Of the normal crop is tho op
inion of farmers throughout this rec
ton. This low crop n many section
is attributed to the exceptionally DIR,
season and to early frosts which .hay,
killed many fields of potatoes befor,
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