Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1917 — W. L. Wood Gives Views On Preparedness In Produce. [ARTICLE]

W. L. Wood Gives Views On Preparedness In Produce.

At this present moment the fathers and mothers in thousands of homes in the United States are counting the cost in their next week’s provisions. Not sjnee the dark days of ’6l to ’65 have the American people wanted for food. The farmers are doing their best to plant and raise their crops for the coming season, but at the present time their granaries are empty, their cribs are vacant. The laboring man must depend on some one for food for himself and faily. Now is the time for preparedness in deed and in truth. Prepare to meet this food condition. The patriotic citizen will at this time sell his food surplus at a reasonable profit. It is not .patriotic to withhold food from the human family for personal gain. The government report shows a sufficient amount of food in the United States to last until another crop is harvested. But the food is in the hands of speculators, and the price is advancing. This is the most important question that the American people have to deal with at this time. I would suggest that yoil write your senator and representative in congress to urge upon that body to enact a law that will induce the food speculators to open up their warehouses at a reasonable profit. " The soldier is making sacrifice in leaving ihs business to go to the front. The farmer is doing his patriotic duty. The 'banks are responding, and every other business must come to the rescue of the people. One hundred milion mouths must be fed. Chanty berins at home. It is the • American lome that should be made happy first. Contented homes make prosperous nations.