22 Oct 1919
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Newspaper
Upper Des Moines Republican
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1919
Page
1
A long readers’ column argues high prices stem from middlemen and small independent buys, urging farmer coops to buy in carloads to lower costs. It lampoons politics, labor, and national issues, mentions a canned professor, and notes public figures and strikes, ending with a found collie ad and contact.
No progress in a week as amendments fail and factions avoid a decisive vote. Senator Johnson pushes for six votes matching England, while Wilson and allies back the treaty. Hitchcock warns forty Democrats would oppose a rejection if amendments clash with his stance. Ratification needs sixty-four votes, defeat requires thirty-three.
A speaker accuses the United States of being an easy mark for England and France, alleging that American coal, food, and clothing were shipped abroad at high prices while soldiers at home faced shortages. He claims government sales funded foreign camps and questions graft by prominent figures amid wartime hardship.
The piece argues the only way to defeat profiteers is for all to stop eating for a period, then notes the federal spend on hog cholera vs the white plague. It mocks departing as insufficient and suggests hanging bolshevists as a harsher remedy, reflecting heated rhetoric.
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