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EFFECTIVE REMEDY
The somewhat drastic method employed I►>' the officials of tin* Federr*
Trades I'nlon of Paris t • mince the high cost -*f living commends itself a
.1 most effective way of .l< .ling with the inclination of the ubquitnus foot
pirates to Keep food prices np to the high notch obtaining during the wm
After vainly trying hv protest and appeals to legislative sources t.
l-r.ng about a reduction in the cost of food commodities, the union official*
j ecording to a recent Paris report, went to the wholesale markets and ohligei
the wholesalers and producers, by methods the character of which is no
definitely stated In Ihc brief dispatches reaching Nome, to sell them foot
supplies at prices varying from five to seventy percent helow current marke
ites, the supplies tints obtained being later sold at cost in the public markets
The occurrence in Itself possesses no more than averag • sign 1 flea nr*
in view of the present inclination **f the peoples of many countries to • ■i ■
innit*-s into their own hands when conditions arc not in accord with populii
Ideas. The mere a* t .if forcing the deal-os to sell food below current marke'
prices under some form of duress is nothing more than n manifestation of tlu
revolutionary tendencies of the times.
Similar episodes have oeeurred without number in v..i.i,; c.until'?
The significant feature of tlie recurrence ..t Paris i< that it pro
due •<. an Immediate reduction of the current market rates in many linn
of food commodities, thus showing that the fond ai ks-re.i!./.-•.! that tlnii
link game vas uj. and it was time t< unload iti-f-uo tin* tin.ding was tin
undertaken hy those whom they w«re seeking to n-l-.
It Is logicalallv certain that if the food dealers ha.! Is. o l-!e to show
conclusively that the prices lliev were charging were actual'., justified tlu v
"ouM hardly have hastened to make a voluntar.v reducI. i i-.- us -,r i
• ctlon of the trade union leaih-rs in f in ing them to sell 1>. • . n ■
No merchant is going to cut his price - on such slight cause if !.«• ' i-- ,
demonstrate that his charges are l»ase*l on no more than a just n.l .n
alde percentage of profit. The fact that tlie wholesalers hast, ne ; n- -iroi
their iiuotations, therefore, seems eonclusive indication that th- v vv.-t- h-.Idim
I rices at figures Which could not be justified on the score that th. > i< pr« sente,
only the Initial costs and a fair profit in other words, their . . lion l-'av •
to other inference than that th. v w--re <:eiivlng an extortionate and ur.
Justifiable profit from the high prices .barge.) and hastened to male
reductions to avoid the consequences of exposure and possible loss <-f hot!
their profits and goods through seizure by their outraged victims.
The remedy adopted by the Paris unionists was apparently a mos
efficacious one in its bearing on the high cost of living end might be adopte.
with excellent results In other places, particularly in America, win re th
food pirate and commercial shark flourish as nowhere on earth.
No where tinder the sun is the public being more systematicaII;
robbed, under tho gillso of trade necessity than right in our own Pnite.
States. Investigations made by the Federal trade commission and other
have shown repeated Is that the ever mounting prices of. living supplies nr
not In keeping with the law of supply and demand and are largely th
results of inflated valuations which arc in no degree Justified l.y act in
< onditions. Almost every extensive Investigation of the food problem ha
disclosed that someone is making an unjustifiable profit from the price
the ultimate consumer is compelled to pm if ji is desired to keep soul an
body together.
It has been shown time and again that production in all of tli
I -Ole essential lines of food commodities is practically always far alien
«,f the actual demand and that there is usually a vast disparity betwee
the price the producer receives and the amount the public pays. Some
when along the lines of distribution, there is a large rake-off receive,
l y someone, but just who it is no one appears to know exactly. Tli
public is plainly being compelled to pay. more than it should for the cost
of subsistence but the persons responsible are as evanescent as ghosts.
it Is probable that the same condition obtain in an equal or great?
degree in France and practically all other countries where trade and con.
iiteree has obtained the same high plane of importance as in the Fnite
States If this is indeed the case, it npjiears that the action of tho Pari
unionists contains an exceedingly vVlliable hint to the public of many na
tlons regarding a remedy for much of the economic affliction which keep
their pocket bonk is a continual state of deflation. A little application .
the same kind of heroic treatment by the public wherever food price
: re suspiciously high would undoubtedly have a decidedly beneficial «-ffe<
especially when it appears, as in the 1'nited States, that the governmer
is unable <»r unwilling to take matters in hand by forcing price reduction
whenever it is shown that the public is paying more than production an
demand Justifies.
PEN POINTS OF THE PRESS
O wad some power the giftie gic us to see the bill collector before li
A woman's will always prevails, unless site is rich enough for th
lawvers to break It after she is dead.
Man wants little here Itelow, n poet sang with Are: there’s only on
comment to make—that poet was a liar.
When you notice how eager and anxious, and almost daffy, women ar
over bargain counter sales, you can figure out how some of us get grtbbe
up as husbands. ••
SENATOR NEW
INFORMS WILSON
RESERVAT’NS SURE
Special t«» the Nome Nugget by The Associated I’resa: j,
WASHINGTON, July 111—Senator New of Indiana, Republican, visited m
President Wilson this morning and remained In conference with the President (
for an hour or more in which the peace treaty and Lea cue of Nations was
given an extensive overhauling. Following the Interview Senator New stated
that he told the president It will he Impossible to get the senate to accept
! the treat> as It stands and that It will either be ratified with reservations or
t Tall to receive approval.
Mr Wilson told the senator that the adoption of reservations by Pie
: senate might set a precedent for other nations. New replied that the
question of reservations is one for Americans to decide regardless of effects
* New says the President is contemplating opposing the provisions of
tto much discussed Artirlii to of the League, which is fast liecoming
flic chief point nf Senate opposition toward the League covenant because of
its tendency to make America a party to European broils and controversies.
Key* Determined on Ratification With Reservations.
WASHINGTON, July .'11 Senator Keys, Republican, was among thel"
numbei Interviewing the president regarding the peace treaty today. S
After the conference Keys stated that bis back is stlffer than ever for
ratification of the treaty with reservations regarding the liability of America Jj
under the League provisions. C
WANTS MONEY FOR
FEDERAL BUILINGS
Sl> «i.il i«. Hi. Nome Nugget by The Associated Press:
\YASH I N<ITt >N. July SI—Alaska Dt'legiilo fleorge II. Grigsby has
ini: < iliM'fil lulls in lho Utilise requesting appropriations amounting In two
million ii ■ ■ • hundred thousand dollars fur the construction of federal buildings
hi K.iii bunk- Alaska, and for the deepening and widening of the Dry Straits
Tli>- latter pro|msal has been before congress on several occasions and
ha been several times recommended by the Coast Survey owing to the
dangers eiu umterod in navigating the narrow and shallow passage.
ARMY AIRPLANES TO FIGHT FOREST FIRES.
Special j0 the Nome Nugget by The Associated Press:
CAMP LEWIS. July ", I —Two army aeroplanes have boon ordered to
proceed from Camp Ia wls to Portland f.. assist in lighting the forest flies
reported in that I.» i. \ It Is expected that the planes will be of great
value by enabling enuipb te recon tin isanccs of the fire areas and In transport
ing fire tig liters to threatened points.
ENGLAND TO REPLACE ARCHANGEL TROOPS WITH JACKIES.
Nugget l.y The Associated P.esu.
. :: I - An admiralty announcement says England
rover the evacuation of the Archangel district by
Northern Russian front during the past year,
troops are also ready to assist there in the event
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