Neither Council nor any other council would dare to interfere with their work. As soon as Retinann-Höwe, of a separate peace with Russia, Urm-do-Gurko withdrew their resignations as a result, thus showing the measure of their confidence in Prussian protestation:
Dealing With Food Hoards
If investigation shall disclose justification for the charge that certain food speculators in Richmond are hoarding large quantities of food to the injury of the people, the Department of Justice will like such steps as the nature of the case may require and as the law may provide. Later, the matter will be in the hands of the people of Richmond, to a large extent. The war will not last forever and war conditions will not prevail forever. After the war is over, people will do well to remember those things.
Organized boycott is unlawful, but there is no reason why an individual should deal with another individual, or a firm that has taken advantage of his necessities to practice extortion on him. Food hoarding for profit at such a time as this is about as despicable an offense against humanity as could be conceived, and humanity should not forget it.
Among the members of the French commission to this country is a colonel who is said to know more about artillery than any other man in the French armies. The other day he said he was afraid that during his absence from the front there might be such developments in fighting as would make him "stale." Theodore Roosevelt took a minor part in a little war nearly twenty years ago. Yet he considers himself competent.  To command on the French front today. 