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"There shall be no unwarranted manipulation of the nation's food supply by those who handle it on the way to the consumer."—President Wilson.

all the wars that waste this world,

Where the life of man has bled,

This is the war I most abhor—

The theft of the people's bread!

They who hold back what the kind Earth gave

In the billowing fields of grain,

Are the cowardliest foe—for their secret blow

Strikes for their own base gain.