Weekly journal-miner., 1920-05-05
MAY DAY STRIKES
TEN CENT POTATOES.


 For days all the newspapers have been full of trouble that is 10 be pull ed of on May Day-that day being the chosen by the Reds, Wobblies, and all the trouble-makers ill the world for a demonstration that will make just hunting up new house and moving into it seem like a real round of pleasure-even though all your best dishes are broken before they are unloaded in the new kitchen.
 Death 10 all persons in positions of authority, destruction of property, refusal to allow any of tthe everyday needs of life to go on in orderly and peaceful routine are threatened in all parts of the world.
 Why: Of the many reasons given there is one that never fails to come to the iront--onc in which we arc every one of Us interested three times a Gay-and that reason is the high cost of food No other good. honest argument has ever been put up for so many outlaws and bloody handed murderers of excuses to hide behind while they robbed the pockets and took the lives of innocent and dcCen- minded men and womeu-and child rcn.
 The coal miners. the railroad men, the factory workcrs-cverybody who has a pain of any kind and wants to talk about it, leaves his job to run itself while he strikes a few weeks and kills a. few people, or lot oi them. to reduce the cost of food.
 Government commissions meet and "argufy' and spend few million dollars and go home and tell what they don't know about 1t in booklets that nobody reads. Cooking experts tell Us women folk how 10 fiX up potato pecliugs and saWdust so our menfolks will \think they are real old-1ashoucd mashed potatoes with cream in them and butter on top-but. such talk just starts d strike at the home table and doesn't say a word as to why the first carload or spring otatocs lat landed in New York. city sold for twelve dollars bushcl, live cents each for a fair sized potatoI -hor why old potatoes of a very poor quality and small size have been ten cents and even higher in Prescott. and elsewhere in Arizona.
 Why? Some oi Us know that Ari-. zuna grows as fine potatoes as can be produced anywhere and that there is. good potato land in the state in quan- lilies to grow all we can use at home. and a lot to sell to our ncighbors.
 Why isn't that land planted: Iii potatoes are going to sell for ten. cents a pound why don't our Arizona farmers, who are climbing right up to the top so far as enterprise goes, put a lot of land into spuds and gather ill some of that cash,
 am going to tell you exactly why and want you to think about these May Day strikes that all say are caused by the hish price of food as you read what ] tell you out of my own absolute and certain knowledge.
 If I were tcsliiying before Gov. crumcut investigation committee ' would be told to Shut my mouth before l could get i, really open and going at is usual speed. If l were telling the Boss Agitators what what I'd be taken out and shot the minute they could draw a gun-but I'm telling the bed rock truth that is back of all this chaos of murder and destruction, this strvatiou and rob bcry, that has the whole world in it's grip. I'm going to tell the truth which no politician would dare 10 tell because to speak it as , am going to' do would kill his politica, future ~dead as a door nail; ] am going to