Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 280, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1916 — WILL ASK FOR AN EMBARGO ON EATABLES [ARTICLE]

WILL ASK FOR AN EMBARGO ON EATABLES

A Demand Will Be Made In Congress For Legislation Preventing the Exportation of Foodstuffs. Members of the congress who have already come in for the opening of the session on December 4 are, in some instances, voicing what is evidently a somewhat widespread demand for legislation placing an embargo on the export of foodstuffs. That legislation of this character will be proposed now seems certain. That it will fail of enactment also seems equally certain. While President Wilson, so far as known, has not expressed his view with respect to such proposed legislation, members of the cabinet are authority for the statement that the country could rest assured that should congress pass ,an embargo bill the president would veto it. It seems likely that the members of congress from the city districts will, generally speaking, be inclined to favor embargo legislation, while the members from the country districts, will oppose it. The farmers of the country are, of course, opposed to any attempt to shut off the export demand for the products of the land. On the other hand, the residents of the cities who are paying extortionate prices for foods are as a rule in favor of embargo legislation. It is said by persons who are in a position to know that the subject will not be mentioned in the president’s address to the congress at the opening of the session. According to this same authority, the president feels that this question of placing an embarga on food, as well as that of placing an embargo on the shipmentof arms and munitions to the countries at war, should not be revived at all.