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WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 1920
THE LEAGUE AND PEACE
The New York Times says that un
less the league of nations be adopted
this nation must enter upon a program
of military and naval preparedness.
Undoubtedly true; but it is just as
true that with the league of nations
in full running order, this nation must,
for even better reasons, enter upon a
program of military and naval pre
paredness.
The league of nations exists; has it
done away with the necessity of mili
tary and naval perparedness in Eu
rope? Is any nation in Europe de
pending upon its paper guarantees of
peace? On the contrary are not a
dozen wars in progress and is there
not far more instability and greater
uncertainty of continued peace than
there was at any time prior to the
outbreak of the world war?
The un-Americanized covenant of
the league of nations would involve
the United States in this European
chaos, and if we are to make the
peace of this country permanently de
pendent upon the maintenance of
peace in all the rest of the world we
will indeed need to launch upon a big
program of naval and military pre
paredness, as the present national ad
ministration, along with its scheme of
a Europeanized league of nations, is
proposing.
SOME VICTORY, THIS!
Administration partisans are hailing
the success of Attorney General Pal
aver in securing an apparent plurality
•f twelve convention votes in Georgia
fo» the presidential endorsement, as a
“vindication” of the Wilson policies.,
Mr. Palmer made his campaign on a
“stand by Wilson” platform!
An examination of the returns shows
the extent of the administratoin’s
“vindication.” With all the influence
exercised by an army of administra
tion office holders, Mr P.almer carried
52 counties with 142 convention votes.
Senator Hoke Smith, who stood for
the Lodge reservations, carried 47
counties with 112 votes. Tom Wat
son, who opposed the whole league of
nations covenant, carried 55 counties
with 130 convention votes. The oppo
sition totals 102 counties with 242 con
vention votes, a majority of 50 coun
ties and a hundred convention votes.
The popular vote shows the same pre
ponderance of opinion against the na
tional administration.
If this is considered an administra
tion “victory,” what would it take to
administer a defeat to the stubborn
One at Washington? And what does it
demonstrate as to the good sense of
the theory that the senate has been
standing -against the will of the Amer
ican people in refusing to accept the
uu-Americanized covenant, when one*
of the states of the Solid South regis
ters such a verdict as this upon the
course of a Democratic national ad
mimistration?
WASTE AND EXTRAVAGANCE
After the wasted millions at Muscle
*hoals, the war department is throw
ing more millions. It is asking con
gress to authorize the completion of
a nitrate plant which has already cost
the country scores of millions without
reaching the p6int of production. It
is going ahead with the construction
•f a dam at a cost of many millions,
allegedly for the production of water
power as a measure of economy in
operation, but at such cost that the
interest on the construction charges
will make the production of electric
power more expensive than the de
velopment of steam power by the plant
aleady in existence. A nitrate plant
for the production of fertilizer or any
other product, under political manage
ment, would be & failure. The wise
plan would be to charge the whole
scandalous transaction at Muscle
shoals up to profit and loss. And the
greater part of the loss was due to
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the fact that the administration failed
to begin construction of this plant as
soon as it became apparent that its
output would be needed, and forced
contractors into extravagant methods
in an effort to build it in too short
a period of time. There has not been
in all previous government history
such a shameful record of extrava
gance and waste as that made by the
present administration in the construc
tion of war plants and the purchase
of war materials. The immensity of
the wrong done is so vast that the
very magnitude of the scandal has
prevented its complete comprehension
by the American people. But as they
slowly awake to the full scope of the
impositions which have been practiced
upon them, they will cover with undy
ing obliquy the names which have
been linked with this gross betrayal
of public trust.
WHO IS RIGHT ABOUT MEXICO?
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Joseph W. Guffey, a Pennsylvania
oil man and a political henchman of
Attorney General Palmer, with whom
he was associated in the handling of
the affairs of the Alien Property Cus
todianship gave out an interview
three or four weeks ago ridiculing the
theory that Mexico was in danger of
another revolution. At the time he
spoke General Carranza was getting
ready to make a military prisoner of
one of the candidates for the presi
dency of Mexicn, and it seems scarce
ly possible that any intelligent ob
server could have failed to sense the
approach of the situation which has
since developed. In this interview
Mr. Guffey defended Carranza as a
high-minded apostle of the new free
dom, and declared that he had re
stored order and contentment in Mexi
co. He also took occasion to rebuke
the wicked propagandists he declared
were trying to create the impression
that everything was not lovely in
Mexico. Couldn’t you tell from all
this that Mr; Guffey, whose oil oper
ations in Mexico seem to have the pro
tection of Carranza, no matter what
happens to other American business
interests in the rephblic to the south
of us, is an administration politician
of the flock which kept us out of
war and reduced the high cost of
living and is continually doing things
that never happen? "Who are, by the
way, the fake Mexican propagandists
in the United States; those who in
sist that Mexico is a regular social
ist heaven, or those who have been
pointing to the facts as evidenced
that it is a far more desperately af
flicted country than Cuba was when
we went to war to relieve that Span
ish dependency from the yoke of
tyranny?
VOICE OF THE ALASKA PRESS
The farmers of the Tanana valley
have a live organization. They have
secured a flour mill which will be set
up there this summer and guarantee
to raise grain to supply it. To have
even suggested a flour mill in the
heart of Alaska a few years ago,
would have sounded "crazy”. Today
farming, the most permanent indus
try there is, is an established fact
in the Tanana.—Juneau Capital.
When you wake up some morning
after a long, cold, hard winter and
find the sun shining brightly, the
pussy willows in bloom, the robins
and bluebirds hopping around the door
and your wife comes down with her
hair tied up ready for the annual
cleaning and informs you that she
must have hew rugs and curtains* and
everything, oh boys, ain’t it a grand
and glorious feeling to know that
spring is here at last.—Valdez Miner.
Lots of talking is being done at the
interdepartmental hearing at Seattle.
We still contend that the hearing
would have been a much greater suc
cess if the conversation could have
been spilled in the territory most con
cerned. We are hoping, however,
that the* commission has come far
enough west to get a partly Alaskan
viewpoint, so that their recommenda
tions will be liberal and help in the
development of Alaska.-MDouglas
News.
The indications are very favorable
that long strides will be taken this
year to add another great industry to
Alaskan activities. The earnestness
of the purpose of the departments of
the interior and agriculture to en
courage in every possible way the
development of the pulp and paper
manufacturing industry in this Terri
tory cannot be questioned. And those
interested in that busiess have the ad
ditional propulsion of constantly soar
ing paper prices.—Juneau Empire.
Vice-President Marshall says he is
against executive usurpation. That’s
always good old-fashioned Democratic
doctrine under a Republican adminis
tration, but with the g. o. p. in power
it promptly passed into innocuous
desuetude.
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