Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1919 — HOOVER CRITICS HIT [ARTICLE]

HOOVER CRITICS HIT

ALLIED FOOD COUNCIL HEAD REPLIES Ts SENATE CHARGES. Cites Packara’ Protest—Removal of War Prices on Pork Would Lift Great Burden. Paris, Jan. 24.—Herbert Hoover, American representative on the interallied food council, replying to criticism by members of the American sqpate, Issued the following statement: “I apparently emerge in a new light as a friend of the Chicago packers. At the same time my mail brings a report from Swift & Company blaming 'the food administration for reducing their profits $10,000,000 during the past year. I don't imagine that the lackers would appreciate a wide circle of such friends. "I notice, also, that I committed a crime in holding the October joint conference of farmers’ representatives and representatives of forty small packers as well as the big packers together with delegates from allied governments for the purpose of settling a price for exports or pork that would give the American farmer a square deal, insure equality of distribution and also protect the small packers. "We have even tried to secure the continuance of these war arrange'ments through the armistice period and the opening of other markets, because the American farmer did hie duty and produced the goods. "If the American farmer and the small packer now feel that these arrangements are wrong it would be the greatest burden off our shoulders. The British government is particularly anxious to be released from these arrangements.”