Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, November 3, 1916, Page 4

s e The Bemidii Daily Pioneer THEE BEMIDJI PIONEER PUB. CO. & 3. CARSON E. X. DENU G. NEUMEIER, Editor. SLEPHONE 933 Entered at the post office at Bemidjl, Minn., as second-class matter under act of Congresa of March 3, 1879, tributions. Writer's known to the editor, but not neceasarily for_publication. Communlcations for the Weekly Plo- meer should reach this orfive not later than Tuesday of each Woek o Insure publication in the current lssue. name must be Subsoription Rates. One month by carrier One year by carrier... Aree monghs, postage rua..,. months, postage pal 20 Ome year, postage paid. ‘The Weeki Bight pages, contalnin; he Dews Of the week. Thu & summary of blished every ay »nd sent poatage pald te any address foc $1.30 In advanos Offtolal Paper of City of Bemiayt ER R R AR R AR R R RN RS [ ] * ] The Daily Ploneer recelves ¥ wire service of the United * % Press Associstion. * » * AR AKX AN NS PAPER REPRLSENTED FOR FOREIGN ADVERTISING BY THE GENERAL OFFICES @ NEW YORK AND CHICAGO BRANCHES (N ALL THF PRINCIPAL CITIEY HOLDING UP MAILS. Nearly every day the press dis- patches tell of some new instance of the stopping and opening of American mails by France or Great Britain. These Instances, for the most part, concern mail not destined for nor bound from belligerent ports, but pro- ceeding from neutral nation to neut- ral nation. And still no decisive action has been taken by the American govern- ment. When the British censor at Vancouver, British Columbia, stop- ped and opened official mail from Am- erican naval officers in the Orlent ad- dressed to the navy department at Washington, the administration ex- pressed its resentment only by order- ing that its oflicial mail be sent through some other port. On May 24 last this government wrote a note on the subject to Enx- land and France. It was a perfectly good note 800 words long, delving deep into history and appealing to the better nature of England and France, in view of historical prece- dent, to desist. After waiting near- | Iy four months the powers mhlrvssc(li have replied. And that reply brings the matter no conclusion. Mail seizures continue. The note of May 24 stated the case | so aptly that worth quoting. Here is the final portion: nearer some of it is “The government of the United ihalf for a sack of flour that cost one States in view of the improper meth- | ods employed by the British and | French authorities in interrupting mails passing between the United States and other neutral countries and between the United States and the enemies of Great Britain, can | no longer tolerate the wrongs which | the citizens of “he United States | have suffered and continue to suffer through these methods.” Parenthically it may be remarked that, the campaign having come on, the administration is still tolerating the wrongs described. ON THE LAST LAP. As the candidates for president en- ter upon the last lap of the race the isdue that stands out over everything else is the issue of character. Mr. Hughes has the advantage of trust- worthiness. There is arrayed against him no long line of witness- er labeled “We used to be his friends but we found we could not depend upon what he says.” There i3 star- ing him in the face no long list of broken promises, promises upon which he was elected, promises whose fulfillment the people expected when they voted for him. What Mr. Hughes promised as candidate for governor of New York he performed as governor. You can tell what he will do by Avhat he has done. His deeds square with his words. He does not say one thing today and an- other tomorrow. It is easier to be smart than to be straight in the conflict of life. It is easier to be clever than to bui'l char- acter. It is easfer in the face of difficulties to gide-step than to stand up for principie. The man who sends his son out into the world with the counsel that “a good name is better than great riches” {s the man to whom Mr. Hughes has always made a strong appeal,. Mr. Hughes rdemands from Eupore. WIRE SYSTEMS ° of the UNITED PRESS The Bemidji Daily Pioneer has con- tracted for a complete leased wire United Press associatlon report for the election returns Tuesday night. This is the first time in the history of Northern Minnesota that a com- plete leased press association wire will be in operation outside the city best assets when he is president. His people know he means what he says today. The world will know America means what it says when he is presi- dent. WAR PRICES. (By Cedar Rapids, Ia., Gazette) When you pay thirty-six cents a dozen for eggs you have to take the market's word that the war has boost- ed the price. When you pay two dollars or more for a I)ushe’l of potatoes the same ex- cuse, aided and abetted by a poor sea- son, confronts you. When you pay two dollars and a doliar and a half a year ago you are made to understand that the war has done it. And so on down the line of abso- lute necessities. Prices are stagger- ing, outrageou They cannot gn much higher without causing an economic uproar that will be heard from one end of the land to the other. In part they are due to the In part they are due to the graft with which the American business world is honey- In part they are due to the American business idea—which is to get rich as quickly as you can, in any way that you can and at any- body's expensd but your own. When anyone attempts to tell you that graft plays no part in the pres- ent scale of exorbitant prices on food- stuffs you may reply by telling them that: Eggs can be bought cheaper within eight miles of the city of Verdun, France, and in the heart of the war zone, than they can be bought right here in Cedar Rapids. Butter, packed in small tins by French manufacturers and sent in- to the war zone for sale, can be bought at a more reasonable figure than we pay here in Cedar Rapids. Flour can be purchased as cheaply in France as in lowa. Sugar, when It can be bought at all combed. of Duluth, The Pfoneer will be on the same circuit as is shown in the above map of the wire systems of the United Press. The service will begin at 6:30 o'clock and the results of precincts 1in the eastern states should be known a figure which does not exceed the figures in Cedar Rapids. Two months ago, when the editor of the Gazette left Verdun, eggs could be bought by Americans there, two for five sous—five cents. Half pound tins of butter could be bought at the ‘‘epiceries” for one franc— seventeen cents. Because the Amer- icans were supposed to be loaded down with money the who sold the eggs generally boosted their prices when a brown-clad am- bulance driver sought to purchase. And, remember, the inflated price was the French equivalent of thirty cents a dozen. What's the answer? In war-torn France, where food- stuffs are at a real premium, where the demand is not faked, where the people have some degree of protection by reason of a militarized govern- ment—in France, within actual sound of battle, food, without which we face disaster, can be bought more cheaply than in peaceful Iowa. An embargo on wheat, flour, su- gar, potatoes, etc.,, would be in error. But that is not necessary. What we do need is not protection against a foreign demand, it's protection against money-grabbing Americans. Washington has made a great blus- ter about lambasting the trusts. Ap- parently there are some things worse than trusts. The problem is a big one for the politicians, but it's a big- ger one for the man whose non-elas- tic income must be made to go far- ther than it has ever gone before. RAGS Bring us your olean cot- ton rags--no buttons, bands or woolen cloth accepted. Pioneer 61’%:; SCOOP “always means what he says.” That fact counts ubove everything else in his favor in the closing days of the It 18 the strong, outstand- His campaign, ing fteature in his character. raputation of trustworthiness, re lability, sincerity, stability and cour- age is his best asset in this cam- in the French war zone, is bought at |- THE CUB v REPORTER : housewifes || THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER Bemidji Dt;lly Ploneer To Receive Complete Leased Wire Election Service early in the evening. The result of |the presidential election should be known definitely before midnight. The Pioneer will construct a large bulletin board in the front of the Pioneer office and bulletins will be posted. Arc lights will be installed to furnish the light. Everyone is Huffman & 0'Leary FURNITURE AND - UNDERTAKING B N. McKEE, Funcral Directoe Phone 178-W or R When in need of wooD Remember GED. H. FRENGH & SON Phone 93 or 428-J Prompt deliveries to all parts of the city. 4 ft. or 16 in. lengths. 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