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CORNER IN FOOD.
Here is an editorial from the
Christian Science Monitor, dated
Friday, March 2. It is quite thought
ful and even more suggestive:
"Prices for table necessaries in
the United States are not normal,
hut far from it, yet it is plain that
the recent effort of the speculators
and manipulators to carry on a
campaign ot extortion beyond any
previously attempted has proved a
failure.
The quick decision of municipal,
State and Federal authorities to ex
amine the contents of storage plants
thereby exposing the actual visible
supply has led the monopolistic con
cerns to relax their grips on the
markets under tljeir control. With
the liberation of vegetables in stock,
that is held for‘further rise, prices
have declined in the principal cities.
One of the most remarkable de
clines has been in the charges for
potatoes. While the speculators
were claiming, a week ago, that a
shortage would necessitate advances
beyond any recorded, it is now dis
covered that the supply is ample,
with the result that $3 a bushel is
an outside price and is obtained
only for a select grade, while a
quality that sold, a week ago, for
90 cents and $1.00 a peck may now
be bought at from $2 to $2.50 a
bushel.
A point to be borne in mind by
the consumer is that, a few days
ago, while the price of potatoes
was at its height, because of the
great scarcity of the vegetable, a
cargo of an estimated value ot
$60,000 was being dispatched from
Portland. Maine, to New York, and
that no sooner had the authorites
given notice of determination to
search the storage plants, than im
mense quantities of potatoes and
other vegetables, found their way
into the hands of the retailers.
There was no longer a “scarcity",
there was no longer a "shortage",
no longer “fear of famine . There
was plenty of everything as there
always has been.
Another remarkable circum
stance. equally worthy of rememb
rance, is the fact that while ex
portation of foodstuffs to Europe,
last week, was "exhausting the
home supply”, there was no com
plaint of dearth anywhere in the
country. On the contrary. Cali
fornia and other states report that
they could easily spare large ship
ments of breadstuff's, in fact, would
be glad to find a market for them.
The "scarcity" of cars has under
gone a change no less remarkable
than was the scarcity of foodstuffs.
One day it was impossible for the
railroads to haul the provisions off
ered them; the next day a thou
sand empty cars were being whirled
to one of the principal distributing
centers.
Even though the strain has been
eased, and even though the tend
ency is once more toward the nor
mal. however, nothing has been
permanently corrected. What has
taken place, can take place again.
There is a looseness about the
whole system of handing and distri
buting the foodstults of the country
that is a constant source of public
uncertainty, annoyance, and impos
ition".
This article, you see, blames the
middleman and the speculator sole
ly. The food supply is ample and
the amplitude is being controlled
for ulterior purposes by the specu
lators.
That there is a grain of truth
in the Monitor’s article we do not
question. Why food is not as legi
timate a subject for profit making
and speculation as shoes and hats
and clothing and rented houses and
wood and iron and coal and othei
things badly needed by human be
ings is not clear. Why the high
price of grain and food stuffs should
be the subject of an especially ser
ius story against the speculators
while the rest appear to be all right
is not explained at all.
Now there is an actual shortage;
there is an actual scarcity. It is
not all speculation that drives wheat
up to three seventeen and a half.
It is because those who sold short
cannot get wheat to deliver And
have to force up the price among
rival shorts to do so.
Mind you in the same issue ot
the paper whence was chosen this
editorial above quoted we find the
following news item:
“Louisville, Ky.—Food conditions
in Louisville are identical with
these in large centers, in point ot
steady advancing prices. Substitu
tion of rice, lima beans and dried
peas has been resorted to in large
measure because of the high prices
of potatoes, navy beans and various
canned goods, meat and eggs.
Stocks of potatoes, onions and
sweet potatoes are very small in
local warehouses. Local restaurants
and hotels have been scouring the
country for isolated lots of white
and sweet potatoes and onions. All
restaurants and hotels have ceased
serving meat orders and make an
extra charge for potato' orders.”
Agatn another report from Toledo
says that “potatoes cannot be had
here”. A Milwaukee report says
"This city although in the heart
of the potato territory is short ot
potatoes. Commission men say
that there arc not enough potatoes
to last three days.”
The fact of the matter is that
the condition now obtaining is such
that any one who cares can blame
almost any lactor he has a mind to:
one can blame the producer, the
speculator, the middleman, the dis
tributor or the consumer. Indeed
that is exactly what everyone is
doing. Some saddle responsibility
on the poor old rancher, others
upon the railroads with their cars,
others on the food combines and
gamblers, others upon the consum
ing allies who are buying up for
export.
As the case presents usen just
now is that there is a handsome
profit in the game of buying and
selling almost anything. If you
buy and get delivery and you hold,
you get an increase in price and a
ready sale is assured. Beans are
higher than ever before in the his
tory of San Francisco. But accord
ing to Chamber of Commerce fi
gures, when navy beans went to
their highest figure last March,
there were 280,900 sacks of navy
beans in stock and unsold in ware
houses compared with 80,000 at a
similar period last year. It was not
shortage that forced up the price
there, but a gentlemen's agreement
to hold out for a bigger price.
The tremendous consuming power
of the Allies is not all to be figured
out in the food furnished Wieir
armies, but in the imported food
furnished the armies plus the aver
age tonnage destroyed by German
II boats, when that tonage contain
ed food supplies from this country.
That tremendously increased con
suming power is also to be. added
to the consuming power of an Am
erican working population which is
paid in money which has a greatly
decreased purchasing power, but a
working population which must be
fed. More men are steadily em
ployed today in America than in
years. Hence the consump
tive capacity of the work
ers is much greater than in
doilais and ents, and thus we can
easily ^ see that the demand being
greater thun the supply, proportion
ately than ever before, the short
age is merely another name foi
a very high price.
Any intelligent person knows
full well that if this war continues
the prices today are only a frac
tion of what they will, be on an
average another six months from
today.
When Uncle Sam le;it the Allied
nations five billion dollars, he made
that inevitable. He handed his
foster children that much good
money and as much as told them
:o go into the markets and inten
?ify the demand tor everything
the people here need for them
selves. This competition is going
to do exactly that. It will enable
the Allied nations with their bil
lions of loaned American gold to
compete with the ' purchansing
power of the American people and
the highest bidder will get it with
out a doubt. Money these days is
being literally hurled into the
markets for everything a man
can eat a man can wear or a man
can use in any way. And the com
modities other than labor and other
than the gold medium of exchange
are in demand as never before.
The armies of men who are fight
ing have to be fed and their feed
is to be furnished them in such j
super-proportions as will allow for
an average tonnage of foodstuffs
sunk by divers. The armies of mu
nition workers, ship builders, army
and naval supply men must be fur
nished with food and they are all
bidding against one another. Bidd
ing against one another and aided
in the efforts of speculators, rail
roads and combinations to get a
grab on the deals so that they can
get their share, it all sends the
prices soaring. Some time when the
w’ar lunacy is over, and humanity
regains its senses, the prices will
flop. It will take time. The muni
tion worker may easily be com
pelled to take to agriculture. The
soldier will turn his sword into
plowshares and raise turnips. When
that will happen no one knows. It
may be soon, or it may be after a
good lot of men past military age
have joined that majority where
high prices of water alone will dis
turb the peaceful tenor of their
ways. The capitalist equilibrium
was never very stable, but the rul
ing classes have with wars kicked it
all to pieces and everything is
chaos It could be remedied some
what by government taking over
the food production, increasing it,
measuring it out and ratiohing. But
as so many prominent ones will
not suffer a hardship just as long
as they have got the money, and
they have lots of it, to get what
they want, then this will not be
do.ie.
When money cannot buy and there
is hunger broadcast something has
to be done and not before. But
it’ is really wonderful how. calm a
man who has lots of money can be
in the face of suffering and starva
tion upon the part of the other
fellow. It's a stoical calm that it is
impossible to upset. It has a seren
ity of mind backs the philosopher's
calm off the map. It is very pre
sent and very noticeable these days
of great profits and much high
prices.
COMMl'XICATKD.
Editor Industrial Worker:
Dear Sir:—Now that Our Coun
try is full to overflowing with Patri
otism and the Martial Spirit is im
buing the breasts of a lot of Us,
these few lines which were published
in the Chicago Herald at the time
of the Boer War strike me as been
worth republishing:
I'll go to fight, for Gloiy and for my
native land,
Where dangers are the thickest,
there will I bravely stand,
And if I fall in battle, they’ll shout
and sing my praise,
And keep alive my glory for men ot
future days.
He marched awiy to glory, he heard
the cheering crowd,
Guy banners waved above him, his
step was high and proud.
He bravely fought in battle and at
the front he fell.
Fell there among Jiis comrades
wlio’d done their duty well.
The dead are Captain Darcy, Lieut
enant Clare Montrose,
And ninety seven others. He wan
one of Those.
I am respectfully yours
PROBABLY ONE OF TH03E.
M. PASCOFF.
LADIES & GENTS TAILOR.
Your Clothes Cleaned, Pressed and
Repaired. '
SUITS MADE TO ORDER from
select fabrics and trimmings.
ALL WORK GUARANTEED.
Gor. Lane’s Way and Front Street.
SPRING TIME IS HERE
For the best work in tailoring see
us. We make alterations.
We do cleaning, pressing and re
paring for ladies and gentlemen.
We maJce suits to order.
First class workmanship, modern
method and prompt service.
We appreciate your patronage.
Yours to pleaes
NOME TAILORING CO.
Next door to Segerstrom & Hagen.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To John Reddin and John Moriarity
their heirs, executors, assigns
or personal representatives:
You and each of you are here
by notified that I have expended in
labor and improvements the sum ot |
one hundred dollars each year for j
the years of 1915 and 1916 on
Bessie Group, 60 acres off North
Home claim, 2nd Tier on left limit
Candle creek and more fully de
scribed in the records of the Fair
haven Mining and Recording Dis
trict, Second Division, Territory of
Alaska.
The above amount has been ex
pended under the provisions of the
law concerning annual labor upon
mining claims, being the amount
required to hold said claim.
And you and each of you are
further notified that if you fail to
contribute your proportion of said
expenditure within ninety days after
the last publication of this notice,
your interest in said claim will be
come the property of the under
signed, your co-owner, under sec
tion 2324 Revised Statutes of the
United States.
JOHN A. MURPHY.
Co-Owner.
Date of first publ., April 14, 1917.
Date of last publ., July 14, 1917.'
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NOTICK OK FORFEITURE.
To W. A. Macomber and E Macom
ber their heirs and assigns.
You and each of you are hereby
notified that the undersigned has
expended in labor and improvements
the sum ot one hundred dollars
($100.00) for each of the years or
1914, 1915 and 1916 as the an
nual assessment required by law for
the said years upon and for the
benefit and development of each
of the placer claims The Elizabeth
Group and the Gertrude Group si
tuated on Bonita Creek in the Cape
Nome Mining and Recording District
Territory of Alaska and recorded in
Vol. 190 page 326 and Vol. 190
paeg 325.
And you and each of you are
further notified that if you do not
within ninety days from the final
publication hereof cause to be paid
to the undersigned your propor
tionate share of said expendiure as
co-owners, you W. A. Macomber in
the Elizabeth and you E. Macomber
in the Gertrude and Elizabeth, your
interest in said claim and claims
will become the property of the un
dersigned under section 2324 of the
Revised Statutes of the United
States. *
CHAS D. JONES.
Co-Owner.
Date of first puhl., Feb. 17, 1917.
Date of last publ., May 19, 1917.
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