The St. Joseph observer., 1922-07-29

Labor went up to four and five times
the previous price. The farmer was
compelled to sell in this low market,
and to buy in the high. Now, MIR.
Long Is sorely shocked at that but
there wasn't any regulation Of the big
companies-of tho fellows that were
making the things the farmer wanted.
MIR. Long saw the profits Of the steel
combination advanced from COO per
cent, and he never shed "a tear. Mr..
Long saw the mills run their profits
up to as high as 319 per cent, and
II never disturbed his sleep. Mr..
Long saw the copper companies ad-
vance their profits as high as 1O7 per
cent. and he continued to slumber on.
But IL a farmer got $500 for his
wheat-what an awful crime that
would be. He saw the sulphur COM
panies jump their profits to 236 per
cent, and he saw a single leather COM
panys profits send It's profits from
$640. 100000 a year to $3,576,OO0.OO a
year. He saw the American Metal
Company pay six of its officers in sal
aries a total of $1.19S,OOO.OO a year.
and Mr.. Long never turned a hair.
You may say he didn't know anything
about those things. Well, he knew
something about the paper business
for he is connected by COnsauguiulty
or affinity don't know which. lie
saw white paper advanced from three
and q half cents TO twenty-scycu and
twenty eight cents. lie saw the
profits Of the Graham Paper Com
pany. out Of which he gets his living
60 TO so per cent. go to 80 per cent a
second time. go to l2O per cent again.
That didn't disturb Mr. Longs cquan-
unity. or keep him awake of nights
because he had to buy that 100000. 90
house down there in Washington, and
somebody had 10 pa. for it. And so,
| say that | present this issue to you,
ana you can judge for yourselves.
What somebody Says how about the
consumer. Did this thing do the con-
sumer any good? Their regulation
stopped at the farmer. The miller
could charge substantially what he
pleased for everything except flour.
and he was allowed a great profit on
that, and beyond the miller, there was
no regulation. When you went down
to buy a little flour, you had TO buy a
low grade corn meal and stuff you
tapplauscD and so il cost
you as much in the long run. But l
can tell you who did got good flour:
Great Brltan got good flour. She got
| IT all the time on the basis Of S2.26
wheat, or substantially that, and while
| they were eating white flour. HoO,cr
was feeding YOU, and your babies on
bran, shorts and middlings.
One other question: / am criticised
| by some ladies' OrganiZations--thOr
| are three of them in st. Louis com
! posed generally of the same people,
/ acting Gndcr different namcs--fOr not
! being for the Maternity bill. There r.
! a great propaganda on about the ma
| ternity bill. ! don't thials many peO-
! pie know a great deal about 1t. Let
| me tell you some nethiuG about it, They
/ brought in a bill there, by which they
| proposed to appropriate a very large
! sum of money put 1t in the hands Oi
| the Childreus' bureau, to be eNpcnd-
ed under the direction of the head OF
! that bureau, and the states We're tC
| appropriate equivalent amounts and
no state could get dollar of money
| unless they pasSCS laws, and mad,
| regulations such as the head Of thi,
| bureau should indicate. Therefore, il
| became important to know who tht
| head Of the bureau was, and to un
derstand what her views might be
And 50 | assumed to find out whit
constituted the entire bureau, and
found some fifteen or twenty ladie
| constituted il, and in the whole buncl
there was only one married woman
| all of the rest of them were misses
That was the crowd that was going t,
take charge Of the motherhood u
this land, and the care Of the babies.
1 examined their literature in orde
to find out their objects, because tha
was necessary. We couldn't tell from
experience because not a one oS then
had ever had the deleCtable pSsvileg
of spanking her own baby Capplause)
We found out that they had writer
with approval some of the utterduCe
Of a Russian woman whe pro
posed to take all the babie
from their mothers, and put them il
public institutions, feed them on
bottle, and rear them that way, 81
they would grow up to be good Com
munists. The poor little things Woul,
have been criminals il they survive,
the treatment. They even S.nt owe
TO Japan. and got a Jap to come here
and tell the American mOthers-h
came from Japan, and l don't knoy
| whether they sent for him, but thu
| had a Jap to tell the American moth
! ers how they should raise their babies
They had lot of gentlemcn--dOc
tors--who seemed to represent abou
the worst type of Bo.aheviki ideas o
, Europe. These men stood there, an
said that the only way this schem
could be made successful was to b
, thorough about ito begin by com
pelling every wOman--every cXpCCtau
mother TO register that fact upon tn
. | public records, so that their agent
IE,hould examine her-prenatal exam
inations-and 90 they could find ou
? how she was getting herself ready 70
| the ordeal. so that they could eNamin
the way she cared Tor her babe after
/ wards. | can't discuss this melsgT
any more plainly in the presence of
mixed audience.
\ Tribute to Mothers
said then that this thing was
e wrong that could not be tolerated.
] said then, and l say now that motht
70 love is the golden cord that unites a
! the living to Almighty God tappiause
1 That mCEherhood-(ap (appiause) all tr
e lives Of men who ever passed aero,
< this bank Of time that it Is the Fo'
e flame upon Heavens high altar III,
4 | warns the hearts OF all the ,liyin
o Even the wild beastH respond TO IA
+ divine thrill. The she-wof will stan
% az the door Of her den, and die IN q
{ defense Of her young. The tigres
[ returning to her lair, and finding h,
|. cubs slaughtered, will lick their blood
+ wounds, ana go forth searching I,
!. their murderer. The little timid qua
Y will expose herself To the hunter
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