Milford chronicle., 1920-10-22
A DEATH-BED REPENTANCE

Washington - THE eleventh-hour
drive on the part of the Democratic
Administration to reduce the high
cost of living, Will not be received by
the American people with any degree
OF assurance that the Democrats mean
10 deal fairly by the people" declares
the Republican Publicity Association.
through its president, Hon, Jonathan
Bourne, Jr,. in the following state
ment:
The question naturally arises:
Why was not something done before
/ II the efforts now pursued are cal
culated to bring about a reduction in
prices. Why have the Louisiana SUI
gar barons, and the seaboard refners.
for example, been permitted for two
years to gouge the public unmerciful-
ly, while in the very last month of
the campaign an autocratic procedure I
OF the Federal Reserve Board forces /
down the price of sugar after the bar
ons and the refners have unloaded
their stocks onto the middlemen? Sec
retary Houston recently announced
that the government would not be a
party TO undertaking to hold commod-
ltes OIL the market for speculative
purposes to maintain war prices.
should he not have put it. the gov
ernment would not longer be a party
ETC.? Why did not Secretary Baker
order the return of the mountains of
army food materials for sale in this
country of their origin, instead of dis
posing of nearly two billions of dol
lars worth of goods in France for
like S400O0O,000 in cash?
These foodstuffs quietly sold in the
american market would have done
much to ameliorate high price con II
iitions in America, but Mr. Baker il
gave as his excuse for unloading them 2
n France at 20 cents on the dollar d
lis fear that the American market o
would be unsettled if they were sold d
lere. At that time the Administration II
vas looking forward with confidence n
o a return to power n
For nearly eight years the Demo- nj
ratic party has been promising re- p
uction in the cost of living. They N
made that the chief issue in the cam nj
aign of 1912, blaming the protective &C
arif for the high cost of necessarfes. in
'ollowing the passage of fheir tar!a "
i'll, food prices began to ayiate until
Jday they are more than 100 per ne
ent above the 1913 figures. When the 70
emocrats found food prices were as C
ending despite free trade, they We
)ught TO camouaage the fact by arbi- m;
arily adopting 1914 for the base
EAR in tabulating index numbers Bl
lowing food prices Today we are gr
lporting foodstuffs at a rate six tiv
mes that of the days of protection dis
It all we get is n month befOre-elec- Mr.
IN surcease, accomplished by a sup rea
sedly non-partisan Reserve Board ruI
izing dictatorial powers and COM jor
ling yolplaning of the cost of liv- Mo
:, with view to cabling votes for BrC
. Cox. Tn,
'Cost-plus contracts, imitation.
minal waste on the part of the
mOcratic plunder band, graft, fa-
'us legislation, setting aside good II
islation, government, rank fabi
'tiality to favored persons and sec mix
rs. too much sOlicitude for people shol
other nations and not enough for que
own, failure of the Democrats. bore
lie in control of Congress, to en- labe
reconstructive legislation, and in "bot
ity of the Republicans; since they II
e been in control. to pave the way of Il
such legislation because Mr.. VIII il a
insists we are still at war and are
not relinquish his vast war pow coct
-7all these have done much to ag- belle,
rate abnormal conditions growing ers-
of the war and to create a period have
in which the profit al a.
and Wilson favorites have found COVE
mited opportunities to clean up by York
e extortion. The election of Cox to bl
Id mean the continuance of the or game
until such time as economic law since
would put a stop to it. but a fectil
lblican victory will mean that w
omic law will find a safe and sane stun
rnment to speed its anchorage "rele
a state Of normally" in al
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