is a great
lihchhced
of a still further
in-
crease.
The same
old story
repeats
itself,
that
as
~oon
as
WAGES
go
up,
COMMODI-
TIES go up as well.
The merchant
has
to pay
more
to
the
porter to place
his goods in the store,
and
the
consumer
has
o pay
more
when
he
buys
from the merchant.
:
The
farmer pays
more
for the
cire of
his cattle.
He
\herefore
charges
more
t:
the
butcher.,
who
in
turn
is
compelled
to
charge
more for his meat.
The same
thing apvlies
to milk, ard
we
?n}?
the fisherman
raising
ithe
price
of
{ish.
What
is the remedy
?
I« the Capitalist going to lose
out?
NO.
He hasn’t lost out anywhere
else.
and
you may
rest assured,
that
he
wiil
not
loose
out here.
Can
the Feod Commission
do anything
to relieve
the situation?
Again I say,
NO.
The
Food Commission
at
its bes’,
ean
only prevent PROFITEERING,
wrich is
only a remedy
to keep
the Capitalist from
unjustly charging
the
consumer
for
his
goods
at extortionate prices.
Rirt
the
Food
Commission
can
never
demand
the
C/ PITALISTS,
be he
mei-
chant,
farmer
or
else
to
sell his goods at
aloss.
-
FOOD
PRICES
can
never
be
made
LOWER,
as
the price
of LABOR
goes
HIGHER.
In
the
meantime
the
people
of the
MIDDLE CLASS
are made
to suffer.
The
salesman
or saleslady,
clerk
or
book keeper,
manager
or overseer.
and
in fact all persons
on
fixed salaries,
are
unable
.0 meet
their immediate
expenses.
They,
in
turn
cannot
afford
to
pay
mure
to
the
cook,
laundress
or
general
house-worker.
Without
means,
suiiable
wearin2
ap-
pare!
cannot
be bought,
and
the TAILOR
suffers.
Our tradesmen
and
mechanies
cannot
afford
to buy
material,
and
you
cannot
afford to pay them
for
their
profession,
so long as you
are not
being
paid detter
wages.
Ard
® WE
have
facing
us,
a
very
thresiening
situation;
a
situation
that
gives good
cause for UNREST.
Leaving the
Isiand is
no
heip to these
conditions
We
cannot
prosper
by
DEPOFULA-
TION.
This island is OUR’S
by Divine
right,
and
as
such
it
owes
EVERYBODY
a
living.
What MUST be done,
and done qaickly
is to organizz into a UNION of the
MID-
DLE CLASS.
:
CITIZENS
!!! PROTECI
YOUR-
SELVES NOW,
or sink
into OBLIV'ION.
AWAKE FROM
YOUR LETHARGIC
_STATE,
and get
together for your
own
salvation.
This is an age of re-construction.
ST
C Rt&
A \v
]|
=&
UNITE!!! ©O-02ERATE! !!
-
For
CO-OPERA"'ION
'is
the
road
to
SUCCIESS.
;
A
novement
is
or
ioot
aloug
these
lines.
It is your duty
to respond
to the CALL
if you have any
hojg
2 for the
future
wel-
fare of your countr
' and yourselves.
I REPEAT,
REA D AND THINK.
THINK
DEEP: .Y
and
let
yoyr
thoughts
lead
you
.o the meeting
which
will be held
in the
very near
future.
ASILEY L. TOTTEN.
Delegate
V. I. P.
L.
To The Editor of Si. Croix Avis.
Dear
Sir:—
This
letter
is
v ritten by
request.
1
have received
seve
al anonvmous
letters
in
which
the
wri ers
express
surprise
that [
did
not take
the
staad
or even
at-
tend
the
Hearings
held before
the
Con-
gressional
Commit
ee
in
the
Colonial
Council Chamber
o = February
9; and
one
of
the
writers—h¢
calls
himself
‘‘Ad-
mirer’’—has
reque
:ted
‘‘an explanation
in the Avis.”’
’
The
letters
seem
to be
the
sincere
out-
pourings
of hones
minds.
There
is
no
“‘gall and wormwc)Hd’’
in them, and,
to
use
@ currenti ineie; ancy,
ine writers
are
not
‘‘knockers.’””
One
expression,
to
wit; ‘'l have
alw:'ys
looked
up to you”’
might
have been
:«pproximately
written
by
Mr. La Bega
(¢~ any other person
of
similar
statue)
wh) has
time and
again
been
compelled t. inok up
to me.
Now,
I am free
.o confess
that
while
ostensibly
the purjose
of this letter
is to
say that
pressure
(f work only prevent-
ed
me from
being
n the Ccuncil Hall
on
Monday last.
in
re: lityit is with feelings
akin
to those
of
tie old
maid
to
whom
suitors
flocked whe
1 she
inherited
a for-
tune
with which
1
vrite.
I
woman
who lad passed
fifty
sum-
mers
(so
the
story goes),
and
the
Lord
only knows
how
m iny winters,
was
still
unmarried
when
:he
inherited
a
large
fortune.
The
mer
in
the
community
began
to pay
atte tion
to
her at
once.
One suitor
vas
mo
e persistent
than
the
others.
He
was
:lways
on
the
scene;
and
when
the
‘‘psychological
moment’’
had arrived he told her how he had always
admired
ber
beau
y,
and
intellect,
and
always
would,
and
how
wretched
life
would be wit out k2r.
The lady listened
attentively-—she
h: d a sense
of
humor—-
and when
the
orat
on
was
over she
said:
“*I know that all yu have said
is a
dod-
gasted
lie, but I lo e tohear it—repeat
it
again,
please.”’
Similarly,
1 appieci:te
the
many gond
things
my
anonyiious
admirers
have
written about
me,
and ask
them
to
send
me
their names
n t for publication
by
any means
but sim ly for ray own
grati-
fication.
Resp :etfully,
R. H. AMHLETT LEADER.
rrederiksted,
Feoruary
16, 1920.
Queries.
1.
lls
it of
the
slightest
benefit to the
community
that
the
Food
Commission
fixes,
so to speak,
prices,
whether
equi-
table
or not.
on
a long list of articles pub-
lished
in
the newspapers
and :leaves the
suffering
public
who {scarcely
ever
sees
those advertisements,
to be charged
any-
Jhing the
seller
feels
inclined?
2.
Shouldn’t in the first place the ruling
prices
be published through publie notices
posted
about
in public places
7
Or
must
everybody
bea
subscriber
to
the
Avis
and Herald to get in
touch
with
a
mat-
ter upon
which
the
economic
salvation
of the people depends
?
3.
Has
the Fnod
Commission
any
means
of enforcing the observance
of the prices
if fixes?
If not what’s the
use
of
it?
4.
Isn’t fresh fish
one
of the
chief sta-
ple articles
of food in
this island?
Why
then isn’t the price of it regulated
on
an
equictable
basis
to permit
one
and
all
of
the underfed
poor getting a
square
meal
of at
I2ast
fish which
the local costermon-
gers
are
selling
at
simply
abominable
prices
?
b.
Isit
true
the
Dairy
did
such
a
splendid
business
the
first
half
year
that
one
of
the
swmaller
stockholder:
banked
SBOO.
clear surplus
from his
divi-
dend.
,
6.
Couldn’t the Council
pass
an appro-
priation to get
Mr. Hoover
come
down
here for
a few
weeks
to
straighten
up
things.
®
ANTI-HUMBUG.
TELEGRAMS.
ST. CROIX STATION.
Domin ca,
Feb.
16th.
Mr. C.
G- Har-
ris
leaves
this
evening
by R.
C.
M.
S,
Caraquet
to attend
the forthcoming
con-
ference
of
the
associated
chambers
of
commerce
at Barbados.
The other
Domi-
nica delegate,
Mr. Donald Riviere,
is
al-
ready
in Barbados.
St.
Thomas,
F_b.
17th.
Traffic for An-
ticua and St. Kitts must
be accepted
sub-
ject
to heavy
delay
nwing
to
a
serious
fault
which
has
appeared
in
the
cab.e
permitting only slow and occasional
work-
ing.
-
Presiie
't Wilson’s
Reply
To Ki
[BSIe T
WIISON'S
heply
10
ning
Christian’s
Cable
Os
Thank
Ghristian’s
CGabie
Os
Thanks.
Translated
from ‘‘Politikan’’
I rejoice
that the
Versailles Treaty,
in
the discussions
of which
I had the honor
to partake,
by the deposit of ratifications
of the subseribing
Powers,
has been
ex-
ecuted,
so
that the opportunity
may
be
afforded
the
inhabitants
of the
Danish
Slesvig
to express
their
will respecting
a
reunion
with
their
beloved
Mother
Country,
through
which
one
of those
ideals
for which
!contended,
has
been
realized.
WOODROW
WILSON.