Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-04-25
THE GREAT ISSUE


The took the position months ago that
me time had the League of Nations covenant should be
ratified by United States the best terms possible and
the leaders country their attention the solution OF DO
~ problems of great Importance For confronted with
domestic problems which doomed dark ahead of US And as tune
gone the soundne of this position has been proven re-
Next to the League of which, undisposed Of cons
the boulder blocking the pathway posf ano problem
by leaders of this nation the High Cost OF Living and ITS
ICES 10 meet increasing raising Immediately
the increased 1t is vicious process mat ies
country destruction unless halted
Whya that canke the heart our economic
being the proteer has obtained throttle hold and continues TO
unmoed while centage OF the common
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But they level Drawn seems more
demand today than brain And not all can be ditch dgge or
brick layers OF plumbers painters .
Now that the primary campaign in Georgia past some things
may be said seriousness without being discounted as being uttered
fr partisan purposes The Recorder believes that the
Washington by its failure the evils at the bot
Mitchell Palmer the general because of his
failure department of justice break proheerng
ta his door be laid the recent outlaw railroad strike al
though he charged to Boshevk and W. W leadership
Little enough has he his department done but whatever he
has touched apparently has Just hearing
has accused the Americas merchants Of being robbers and
limited them margin of profit which they cannot continue
bness without facing bankruptcy And the louisiana brokers'
spectators in the of Hea the putting
their pockets 10 cents pound according nd
cations every pound sugar from territory
Whya Because few months MIR Palmer ruling that the
plantations getting enough for their product and
entitled to 10 u cents let the interests know that he would
stand for higher That the signal and the paca
work Cuba caught the and sugar up
Bat didn't anywhere the price dealers paying the
brokers for it Sugar today being sold by the American Sugar
cents per pound But cannot supply the demand and only
rates its production its thousands of And
making the of charges But h Louisiana
sugar producers turn their production to the brokers who
row offering it to the highest bidders and getting 80
for i And where Mr. PalmeI The work still going
hindered, and the people being pundered
That hat only nsance What about the dividends
Tn heipu by III.
Why the mills permitted sell manufactured goods at
rc12 Again, PROTECTING in the necessities of life
And what about the wooden mills making profits
He he only 90 to $3.50 for the wool that Goes
INTO the hnest Atwood suit and the miller dispute Gov
figures show the money going labor And there
are plenty instances where the retailer the fact that
he suspected of prohteeng himself has percentage of
Frohs down beo" what it was under old conditions
What about the between Mr. Palmer and the bio
packers few weeks which he announced for best in
rre OF the pubcP What about the almost immediate increase
wholesale prices of meats which costing the people Of
ecus nom to ~ cents pound than before for
week Mr. Palmer denounced the outlaw railroad
trlke as part OF the world radical The nation tool
ms word tor it. but ne didn't ubantate his charge and the cost
'of living ing still goes up; 'O'
The basis of the strike when the Communist party
Fsmer propaganda announcement " ~
nou months when President Wilson made his we'll known prom
e to the rail workers that they would have raise coming he
ed to make good for him and them ~ %
i was this failure Of the administration participated in by Pal
"hen to of
packers and big prohtee that furnished the ,Xidnrea5 -
which is the basis of all big strikes 'e"'
The American people will be fooled They NAV al,aad
rave discovered that the real basis of the and was
IN Noscow-tha in and bids fair continue in Washington
nd mar one OF ITS principal pillars the Department Justice
The railroad strike deporabe was bad business for the
nen themselves But that does make the abb Of the
fration any the less fallacious ~ ~
The fact that the fish biting does encourage the
5aea Of an industrial revolution.
fault of the overall clubs that they make it harder to tell
working man. from loafer
The more EMPLOYERS see Of the n. ,ora Il LII