Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-07-26
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SCARE ANY MORE:
Business Interests go For
ward now Regardless
of National Admin
istratiOn.
PRICES ARE OFF
How Cooperation Will Help
During Present Car
Shortage.
PRICES ARE OFF
BY j. Il. JONES.

emissarieS among its wOrkmcn today
to tell them that IF Cox is elected,
or IF Harding is elected" that they
will have to shut down until they find
out whether lit is going to ruin our
business would get quick response
land it would be 'horse laugh.
Nevertheless. this sort of thing was
done successfully less than twenty
years ago, when there were millions of
voters hesitant about the use of their
suffrage. fearful that they might bring
on panic.
Today the business establishments of
the country go right along attending
to their affairs and they have abid-
ing faith that their government is go
ing to stand up to the rack and keep
the wheels of state turning regularly
no matter who is elected. And they
are right.
On the other hand applause for the
soviet system of government broke out
III lIC Va tht poiAtAN"iAJ
dissatisfied, which met recently at Chi
cago, and the country was warned, and
re-warned each day of the sessions that
the demnitiOn bOw-w0ws would happen
if either one of the two old capitals
tic parties should be returned to pow
er" And they were wrong.
Sensible people might just as well
make up their minds once and for all
times that no matter whether cUndi-
ton of business paralysis is predicted
by capitalists. as in the Olden days
or by political radicals and discOntcHts
as was the case at Chicago, that in
either instance, the makers of these
threats are insincere and not to be
trusted. Both instances represent the
desire of small cliques to fOist thcil
particular class upon the govern
lnent. to take charge of it-and class
government is sOvietism. Capital ap
pears to have grown away from the
advocacy of this fallacy--or maybe
they have dropped it for the better rea
son that the public refused to swallow
the gulf any longer. But the Chicago
gathering took up the old, discarded
cry, hoping by the use OF it to fool
part of the electorate and switch them
to the socalled Independent ticket.
With two newspaper editors heading
the old party tickets, and with tho
whole country still alive to the de
mands of the recent crisis in the sta
biIity of the ideals inventoried a>
"Amercansm. there isn't much dan
ger that class representation of re
forms. or threats of disaster, will sc,
more than the deserved horse laughs
out of the electors.
The presidential campaign starts oi'
with clean and able candidates lead
ing the old parties: ana there Is
promise that there will be a healthful
spirited expression of the condition OF
public sentiment throughout the ia
ton. such as will serve to tell the exc
cutive and legislative branches OF thu
government what it is that the people
of the United States expect of them
Public Assets and Liabilities.
The restriction of banking accomno
dations and the disposition on the part
of the public to rebel against contlnil
ing advances in prices of commodities
represents the movement at the top
to decrease the cost of living. Prices
and wages that were created by extra
ordinary conditions can hardly be ex
pccted by sensible people to continue
forever. and there has been plenty OF
evidence that the business interests 81
the country have been looking Tor shei
ter from the threatening storm. Lead
ing shoe manufacturers OF st. l-Ou'
have announced reductions of 30 cent?
to 81 a pair in wholesale prices. Fol
lowing the rehabilitation last year
large part Of the country stocked III
on clothing. so that it is not necessar!
for them 10 make neaNN PURCHASES liz
wear. The result has been that retail
dealers throughout the country have
been cleaning up their stocks and a
the same time Withholding orders TO
large quantities Of supplies. Manufac
turers have felt this curtailment. ant
they are proceeding cautiously. 1t ha
made an uneasy condition which ha
been reflected in unprecedented mum
bers of bargain sales" in all parts
the country.
The domestic wool market Ill I'll
United States is off 20 to 10 per cen
from their high levels and carpet WOOL
GO to a. per cent. Hides and ieathe
have had heavy decline within III
:, past three months. These are item
vat come close to the American pun
Whe
Lnd, re the broad field Of industry it ma