would not do for the reason that it gave too much power to the party in power, but I thought and still thing that we have had no fair test owing as I said to the immense amount of shipping the government has done and that was the point I wanted you to inform us on but you seem to have misunderstood me. At any rate, you speak in your answer of the $750,000,000, and don't mention the main question. What the deficit would have been had the government been paying the railroad for hauling all the immense amount they had to have for the coming year. I can't figure how it could be known at this time. Please understand, I am not approving the $65,000,000 gift or many other useless things that have been done but let us be fair in our criticisms. Now a word in regard to the government control of the grain market, perhaps in some ways as you say a.

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Troy, Idaho, April 14, 1919.
Editor Star-Mirror, Moscow, Idaho. 