Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1922-07-27

but the boys from Missouri
marched on. They answered their
country's call with a dare, they sailed
the seas with a song, they went over
the top with a smile. They marched
on through blood and fire, on the front,
till that November morning when be-
meath the stars of their God and their
country, they stood triumphant over
the broken remnants of German au-
tocracy. OF them and their record,
we're proud. We're proud of the rec
ord made by fathers and mothers,
wives and daughters who stayed ut
home and worked and saved, prayed
and sacrificed that these boys might
be fed and clothed, armed and NUM-
toned, and that America might win
the war. The paths of Missouri's
young manhood run from homes to
dug outs, and from the burrows of the
farm to the trenches of the battle
front. These paths are lit by the
altar fires of sacrifice and patriotism.
Would God those were the only ones
iliuuC ~ NhlsSOull uho. Dut WllluIlS
amidst them like the t%Ortuous, Shiny
trail of the kissing serpent is the path
made by the senior senator from Mis-
souri,.
"But we didn't follow him. He
made that Shiny trail alone. 1t is my
faith that we won't crawl in it now.
We will set up but n stone to mark
1t which will bear this superscription :
"'Erected in honor of Missouri
Democrats who repudiated the man
that made these tracks
Hoover Not An Issue.
with the odor of that trail about
him, this man of boosted courage
comes to Missouri. But as he looks
back on his war record, he hasn't the
nerve to submit it to Missouri Demo-
Gratis for their approval or disapproval.
Instead of that, he seeks to divert at
tenti0n to the record of another man
as if he were a candidate against him.
Instead of defending his own record,
he %denounces the alleged record Of
Herbert Hoover. But let Mr.. Reed un-
derstand. The gentleman whose rec
ord we're interested in is not named
Herbert Hoover, but James A. Reed.
We do not care, just now, who Hoover
is, or what he is or was. If he Is a
devil, that doesn't make Jim Reed Il
saint. Reed can't put wings on him
self by putting horns and hoofs on
Hoover.
But by his discussion of Hoover,
Reed has only added to his own dis
honor, for he has deliberately falsitied
about Hoover and attempted to de-
ceive you, his own constituents. He
tells you that Hoover fixed the price
of wheat. That's not true. A commits
sion of twelve men, six representing
the farming industry, fixed it, and
Hoover had nothing to do with it.
"He says that Hoover fixed the price
under the then market prices, and that
as soon as his control ended the price
advanced. That's not true. On the
day the price was fixed at $500 pei
bushel, the market price ranged from
$2.16 to 1925 per bushel. On the day
the food control period expired, June l
1920, the price Of cash wheat on the
Chicago market was $2.75. On July
Is, when speculation in futures was
resumed, 1t was $2.S4. On July 81, il
was $2.45. On August Is 1t was 1888
on September l, 1888; On September
i, Is, $2.66; on September 80, $2.45; OF
November l, $2.16, and on December l
$1.S6.
1--WE find, therefore, that within ST.
months after food control ended, thu
price had declined SOC per bushel. Wha
Is the price now? What has 1t beel
since? BY what rule, therefore, cal
: it be calculated that Hoover deprive,
, the American farmers of a billion dol
lars? BY the token of the actual fs
3 ures, l say that If Hoover was respon
4 sible for the prices farmers enjoyed |
Y war times, the daily prayer of tn
American farmers now should be "Of
Lord, give us more of Hoover and les
Of Harding"
. Tribute to the Farmer.
+ "But Reed say Hoover kept tn
American farmer from getting perhap
5 $40 per bushel for his wheat. If h
means by that to charge that tn
g American farmer complains because h
:. didn't get $40 per bushel, 1 resent 1t q