Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-02-03

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And ~ these sAess Tor which the
~oonsumsr' paid )11 or more haA .
fActsry cost OF only @2!Ss a. shown
BY tho books and the evidence-And
that after they had been made by
labor that has become 30 insufficient
that II h producing only about 20
per cent Of the product produced
before the war debauched the con-
science Of men. And many innocent
purchasers have believed that they
we're getting something better by
paying something more--when that
more" was simply something goug-
cd under q ruthless system OF brig
anda9e In trade.
Some may say that shoes cannes
be made for such cost price AZ
present rates OF hides and leather
but when the manufacturers were
confronted with II they did not deny
it--they pleaded nolo contendere~-
that Is they were not willing to
defend themselves. but elected In
stead to pay tho fines imposed on
extortioners. And they pand them.
On the moral quality of such
transactions II B not necessary TO
dilate here. except to ask that has
become Of the moral element IN the
world? Time was when such firms
as the one in Providence had busi-
ness morals--had a fixed price based
on the costs OF manufacture. Now
IL Is prigandage that has to be dealt
with. And 1t will be dealt with.
The retailers who have been goug-
ed will hereafter have to know with
whom they are dealing and they VIII
have to beware Of travelling men
who sing new songs of high prices
and still higher ones.
COMMITTEE OF FORTY EIGHT.
tDes Moines CapitaLl
The Committee Of Forty eight
which Is an axitating organization
has has issued a document reciting
the grievances and naming the things
that should be corrected. IT is easy
enough In q country the size OF ours
to make a catalogue of grievances.
But il Is interesting to look over
this document issued by the Commit
tee Of Forty weight. One paragraph
says u. i
TT is not an exageration to say
that he who controls the transporta-
ton system controls the nation It
self"
This in a confession. This Is the
reason that Glen Plumb and his fol-
lowers want to control the railroads.
II is political power they are seeking.
The statement made by these agita-
tors is correct. II the railroads are
turned over to Glen Plumb and his
followers or If the railroads are con-
tinued under government operation
the railroads can control the govern
ment instead o fthe government con-
trolling the railroads.
The same curcular. continuing on
the same subject, says:
Public ownership OF railroads
during the war has not failed as II
Is claimed, for we did not really
have public ownership
The circular then complains that:
The so-called deficit from govern
ment operation Is due to the large
Increase In the salaries Of employees
and shorter hours, and to the eS-
horbitant rentals paid by the gov
eminent, and the use Of the railroads
primarily for war purposes instead
Of for profit"
Inasmuch as the Committee OF
Forty-eight Is anxious for the sup
port of the railroad brotherhood, the
the paragraph we have lost quoted
should not be circulated among rail-
way employees.
This community is being flooded
with the circular claiming to give
the platform OF the Committee OF
Forty EIGHT which held its meeting
in st. Louis, December to II, 1919,
and which was attended by James
NJ. Pierce and others from Iowa 1t
would be impossible to gather more
inconsistency into fourteen pages
than this committee gives in its cir
cular.
The committee passes over the
most important pending public aues-
tion-the Industrial question. The
Committee of Forty-eight was made
up of highbrows. A large number
of them were employers Of labor.
They did not want to create distur-
Dances in their own establishments.
hence, on page ten OF Its circular
the committee says:
THE industrial problem IL COM
pick one and cannot be solved all
at once. We can only hope to fix
and hold the public attention upon
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