The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, December 24, 1917, Page 7

“Recent experience has convinced me that the congress must go further in authorizing the gov- ernment to set limits to prices. The law of supply and demand, I am sorry. to say, has been replaced by the law of unrestrained selfishness. While we have eliminated profiteering in several branches of industry it still runs impudently rampant in others. The farmers, for example, complain with a great deal of justice that, while the regulation of food prices restricts their incomes, no restrictions are placed upon the prices of most of the things they must themselves purchase; and similar in- equities obtain on all sides.” — PRESIDENT WILSON in his recent message to congress. For saying just this, and for saying it in almost these identical words, the anti-farmer press of the T oy Sy e rer - —Drawn expressly for the Leader oy W. C. Morris Northwest branded the delegates to the Nonparti- san league St. Paul conference as “disloyal” and “unpatriotic.” One of the chief features of the resolutions adopted by this League conference ‘last September was a request that prices be fixed on what the farmer has to BUY, as well as on what he has to SELL, exactly the demand of President Wilson three months later in his message to con- gress. Morris, Leader cartoonist, has drawn a car- toon on President Wilson’s message, which mes- sage recognizes the justice of the League’s stand in the St. Paul conference resolutions. He ' pic- tures the president telling the price-fixing authori- ties, who have fixed the price of wheat, to get busy with prices on some of the things the farmer has to buy—farm machinery, for instance. PAGE SEVEN