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^6 £1 ¥4 Tj o" tW ffj & The Week Hlniond's View of Europe Frank H. Simonds, known through out the world as the most popular writer on the greet war, is now out with a theory that Europe can b.e saved from bolslievism only by re establishing German militarism. This militarism would then stand between western Europe and Russia. A tri umphant German junker state, how ever, would absorb Russian trade and constitute a new menace to 15urope like that said to exist prior to 1914. Surely this is not a very hopeful prospect of salvation—a major war wit the Balshev-iki through tile Ger man junkers and Ihvn another world war to eliminate the German junkers again, and then another war against the bolslievism produced by the sec ond world war, and so on ad infini tum, with the war to end war. which we thought was I lie last war, still t'av the future. Simonds' view of lhe future is thai, held by the special-privilege classes and the superlieinl people in genera) of the allied countries. He was always superficial aiul prophecy, but lie always made thu prejudices of the ruling classes ap pear plausible and consequently go! press popularity. Thus with Europe as it is today bolslievism is indeed a menace to it. In two months the Soviets have, emerged triumphant, over all outside force. Hut Europe doe'iit liav to re main as it is today. Within three months every country in Europe can dnV" out special privilege and thus feed and make its people prosperous ins-tend of beggars. Special privilege, however, prefers war without end to domorcatization of trade and Indus tiy and so Europe is, as Simonds says, in for a very hard time. Wall Street Pleuse«! Willi Oul look I tail President Wilson's proclamation re turning the railroads to the privat«) owners on March 1 leaves little hope for advocates of public ownership. Congress might conceivably do some thing, but it is improbable that that body would make a fight for con tinued control. Wall street now expects the Esch, bill in the house and the Cummins bill in the senate to pass. "Wall street," says a financial writer, "fav ors the Cummins bill partly because it has the anti-strike clause and part ly because it provides for rates thai will assure a return of 51-2 per cent on the aggregate values of all the rail roads in each Of tho 20 to 35 groups into which it would divide the rail roads." The present guarantees will be kept up for four to six months aften March 1. Rates must go up and we must make vast loans to the corpor ations, for Wilson and every one else who has studied the matter know that private ownership is more expensive for the nation than public ownership. Business arguments were not consid ered in the choice. Irish 1 I'roportionnl Ilfpreseiila- Vnc tlon. Proportional representation is go ing to have a widespread trial in local Mäh elections on January 15. Those who follow the Irish question are go ing to watch the election closely, too for evidences of growth or decline of Sinn Fein strength. Hostile military occupation with martial law, has been a pretty severe test tor. this party of independence.' By this plan of voting several rep resentatives are elected from one dis trict and each voteV has one first choice vote, one second choice vote) one third choice vote, etc. When prop erly applied it (iVea representation in the legislature of different parties or interests according to voting strength Until, recently only reel reformers have aelte.ted. Sor It, but now the con I eervatlves everywhere, Including the lt|M house of lords, arä urging It. And the reason tor this is evident. 6^fl*nrlee complete overturn at coming eleeMew, the conserimthres ijfpet to jn«ke sure of the minority b—-something they have deny Independent re Here. too, w« ly have riaaon tor general ap to lrtah local elections— of meJority-*ake r^n perty would probsb iiflw, -te Vasleod ead Ire :."»t deeith otentl j.Bwleie'we'». ^eertetitfy mmm too little interest in public affairs tq want to risk this questioning because of any principle connected therewith. So these gods and their high priests have practically a free hand. Credit for the inauguration of the sport really belongs to Judge Gary, although it looks now as if the two old parties were going to make a cam paign issue out of the question as to which d:d the more to start this new form of ocean travel. 13ut the fact is that Judge Gary, when pressed by the senate committee for the reason why steel trust employes were striking, declared that, his American employes were contented and that only wicked fore'gn agitators caused the troubl". Naturally the trust employed lot of foreigners (raio of about 'A to 1,1 be cause its employment ads us«d to rend: "Only Poles, Lithuanians, Slo vaks, etc., need apply." The senate didn't take tii: trouble to inquire any further because those i.rcsme-. tl eir wisdom !. ihr, they had struck the pay dirt. The time for action had arrived. Palmer turned loose an army of sleuths great er than the total membership which anarchist communist and communist labor parties ever had in this country, ind the warriors of the pen supply generally wrong in atrocities needed to hearten tliiil army of sleuths and tile dear public. lie«-!' Slioi-tafj«* in l'rospe« I -A beef shortage for the next seven years is predicted for tho United States. In (lie past year the number of cattle slaughtered for interstate shipment declined by F. Ivorine, statistician for the Chica-, go stockyards, declares that the pros-' ont shortage is not less than 1,000,-! 000 head. Since the raising of a good beef steer is a matter of years, an imme diate return of conditions favorable for livestock raising will not give us relet for a long time. The shortage must become much worse before it becomes better. Thousands of the o'ul catt'.e raisers have taken their losses and quit the business. They will be replaced only by a new generation of cattle raisers. ,s Such is the price the nation will pay for maintaining the packng trust. The farmers have already paid large part of their shares. They have frequently, in the past summer and fall, gotten less for fat cattle than hey paid for lean stock to fatten earlier. Such is the way the trust st"bilizes the markst. The heaviei part of the consumers' bill is in tilt? I future. Our working people will be less and less able to eat meat, and with poorer food the quantity and quality of their work must fall off ,So it will touch the manufacturers, too, and we shall hear a great deal about lazy workmen. And let it be remembered that At torney General Palmer agreed to let the packers keep their meat mono poly. Hoover's It«'|Kivt oil Kurope 1 290,000 and M. Hoover's statement that European needs j»re not so bad as they ar| generally painted has probably caus ed a good deal of surprise. Nor is there any apparent reason why Hoo- I ver should want to check any possi ble aid to the distressed parts of Europe unless it could be that our government has gone as far as it caa and wants taoffset the "help Europe" propaganda. I Outside of Armenia the former food administrator sees real want only in the large cities. Country dis tricts and rural towns of France and central Europe have always been self feeding, but the big cities lived large ly on foreign foods exchanged for manufactured products. In time of war these city people lived by war time manufacture, but when peace came this disappeared and the failure of the allied statesmen to bring back peace-time conditions at once has pre vented the old peace-dime manufac turing Perhaps "Hoover lias'seen, too, thq effects or food profiteering in Europe. As here, nearly lIi with the exception of Sweden and poesibiy Germany end Belgium, to a leas extent have thought more of the sacred rights of the proflteer than o* feeding their people. People have starved while warehouses bulged with supplies. Everywhere the men of means can fatten Mmsolf. Perhaps it would be "sociaUstic" to give all a ftdr chance flood supplies without profiteering. Whatever people,may chooae to ChBrge aeainst Soviet Hus sia, it should be admitted to lie credit that it to the oniy BUropoan country to toed the ebUdren finst. Reports of «Mid 'suffering in Vftmnn, Oelida, Po land end Berlfn riMe. to read ,-: "5 In a shoit $ime reporters from east» papers will not dare to come west .ot Chlcago to learn the most .miM'ast Worthjr truth eboet the or-gunUod 'farmers, so terrlbla _tbi wild West atroeftjee bpoome. j3wf if Norm' BNiek, Borne Q. Brown or Qovornor uist «o Mot ooeäslnally it will •61 be neeouarr4% pfe«s H»?» to A CONTRASTf- Gang politicians of Michigan ad mit that $178,000 was spent to elect Newberry to the Unite* States senate. The grand jury which indicted 184 of these men, including Senator New berry, charges that $500,000 to $1-, 000,000 was spent. These alleged traitors, anarchists and destroyers of free government have br.en let out on $1,000 bail each. At the time the leaders of the coal millers' union were arrested, although they 'had called off the coal miners' strike in obedience to Judge Anderson's in junction. Their offenses had en that the miners had refused io obey them. For this alleged offense their bail has been fixed at $10,000, or 10 times as much as the bail fixed to hold politicians who tried to corrupt the ballot, destroy the franchise of ths people and overthrow popular gov ernment.—Burleigh County (X. II.) Press. The plutocrat is always loyal be cause the plutocrat says he is, but the organized farmer is not loyal because the plutocrat says he isn't.—•0'"""" I IS POWER Mr. Kane Complained ho My haadicoped by the Cooke, formerly food Philadelphia, to -teorganizj fair-'price board. -That of publicity, ought toj profiteers, lie said. SISSETON WEEKLY STANDARD hems Handicapped by Cocke'1 fusal to Reorganize IVnil:]me fair-Price. Board, He Says ATTORNEY'S DUTY TO STOP PROFITEERING, SAYS HEINZ Uo Prpse'cut'or Has Tim6- fa Answer Questions Concern« ing Action in Other Cities Wifil the housewives ct tliis •clamoring for direct, vigorous a cgainei the food Rougers, whom' tlf hold responsible for the undcrc sncnt of their children, Francis I Kane United States district ntfrj declared yestel day he. was powctV check profiteering. ". But Howard Heinz tor for. Peunsylvania.^S Hr. Kane cn that polot^J view with the Public 1 fcurgh last night Mr.-'Beinz1 Slthou£ h,h^ xvas'making everyv have, fair price boards c-established^ "that would, not relieve'• the..federal ave pi ccai fi Bat. «•ne teem ,usci täätl the government«, Iwe e: lew? LW 854 rnrnm It has been the constant assertion of the kept press that all the farmer owned newspapers of North Dakota were implicitly obedient to the com mand of Townley. It" has even charg ed that Townley n^.tat approve all editorials appearing in any of the farmers' newspapers. Of late all these kept papers havo been reprinting from the farmers' papers instances of disagreement, tie cause some of the farmers' papers have different ideas from Jthers on certain problems, it is gleefully as sumed by the tzept press that tho League is near a break-up. I The kept press logic is dreadfully i. mussed. If Townley absolutely dorn inates the League, why should there be these differences of opinion among League editors? Is Townley fighting himself? And if, on .the contrary, the League newspapers are the expression of the men who run them, and of the farm ers who own them, what becomes of the kept press charge of Townley absolutism? We are curious to know just what explanation the brethren ati: thsrities from th^ir duty to prcfiteering. The district .dttorae^" feaid,-." that the Lever ,food-ic6htrol prove' to be effective in cases of ng aa distinct frvm profiteel'iat 1'eiterr.lcd that it would be cxtr difficult_to provo.'VioIationa. Mf. Kane acknowledges that fei" inordinately hijjii. Ignoring price of moats,, regarding which jSober _M.:- Simmers, agei'it of the State Food, Cue. Daiv'y Department, and government lood-and. inspector, has given hfm a1 mäsfl of evidence,, he eaid that' "the priem ok grgcn^vegctables arc ^terrible." VlV fee od manager.. I know when an fe-on't fin pail Ct alciodt $3 one B?»d ti: Bpend an phowg. lid street, I o-a.gov 'etiV pteiÖATlONS e* the Mai punch b& the tiigh cost o£ living were Sties. CltlCWhiii$. 'i mTfiL' rrdy L-cteU tii It's like Velvet Jbe says: waal the SB, MA M- Getting Tangled Up of the'kept press have to make of this phenomenon.—Fargo Courier- News. Labor Party Wins John Lawson, Labor party candi date, running on a platform favoring nationalization of industry, has beon elected to parliament from the Ches •ter-Le-Street division of Durham, Eng., in the recent by-election. His majority was given as 12,525: dies ter-Le-Street is a typical mining con stituency. The question of nationali zation of mines was practically the sole issue. Wise Fivcsight In the Chicago papers there aro pictures of some of the men taken in the red raid on New Year's day, to gether v.itli some of the detectives who made the raid. The footnotes carefully explain which are the prisoners and which th?, detectives. This was a wise move, for, otherwise, unprejudiced readers would have made a terrible mistake,, The detectives are the only ones who look like Criminals.—Exchange. E.ÜÜZS2H :SSStS, Great Quantities of Food Seized jßlß Agents .T rcauy Attorney General committee that he iatändcd t/ and in Ujrmmghaiii 100 äf AaSfikms iS' W AST season's suit still holds together and we can half* sole our shoes. And you can still buy a big generous tin of the jolliest old pipe tobacco that ever came down the pike, without mortgaging the old homestead. Hooray! OmA old Kentucky is still growing Velvet's honest fra grant lea£ We're still ageing Velvet in the wood. Velvet's just as smooth and mellow and mLd as it ever was. The quality's tiiere and the qiaantlty's there just the same. ... Take the "cost" out of the "high cost of living" and what do you get? Why, "high living" of course. Well, sir,-that's what Velvet does.* "Anybody can tell you bow much Velvet costs. But only yo' old pipe can tell you how mubh Velvet is worth." Sm: MM "Bad in Some Rewpects Much Worms v«ucc ti tilt tl tJr la Others." Senator .V.hurs' of Arizona, is en titled to first prize for t]ie best story in connection with the notorious Cummins bill. "The truth is," said Senator Ae hurst in a recent review, "the Cum mins bill is t'he most atrocious piece of railway legislation ever offered for the consideration of Congress. "It remind me of a man who was lynched in the southern part of my State. Pinned to the lapel of his coat was a card on which was written: 'The deceased was a very bad citizen in some respects, and a damned sight worse in others.' "There is not a single redeeming feature in the Cummins bill." One woman complained the other day that for the first time, in 20 years she had been compelled, for the lack of a maid, to rook'.the family break fast. This earful martyrdom will doubtless cause a vast wave of pity to surge through the breasts, of the workers' wives who have been doing that for 20 years.—Devil's Lake tN D.) Journal. rrsfl! HOWARD HEK L|* air-FoOti-Pileo Reiterate?» Rs?us&!j! Loose ,ve I viwukf |C it ........ $»d aetniassirai-si.* an ir.'rrvicw v/ilh Howard Hoins f.lT'cnnsvlvama. ti ».•Lehoeb t«?«!? "..'•'io loo ,' laeS nislst. said hs is .Lin his power to u-iliit: ^llrfttors te i'Sürjjanissa Wrlcs "boavdVLS ssq estcd his cpialoc'i that -boards \-i':5- clc- W I $t rests v.-iit: tz- entire gjsttza. of f~»:' &e refusal of jp.y Cobk&.! guthat Mr. Cooke may ret bo \?d assume thai burton. Cooke, in a taiU ever tto §5$ince wive lrst nis'.-.t t-sid !.r iu his determinotiffa cot to his duties ttn .focx' adtsinis-1 War Is Over, Says Ccthi war is over," eaid Mr. Cc: don't sec why I ohould -vcmt-} ''the job of food administi-r^v. 5?ercd for that oScc duriß,» IL«' fc JJie present sltuatico ray bo ur, s- of tlin.:*.v:ir, K?5- T-cze't-f I pSfMoyW get-mkefi vp in it. Vv-osld return fta«l Increao^'VafS of h. 96 trmi -tea Nortit Awrali'a nsls V" the work tbaL v/ould. to i&iroN't'vinnUo.r.'' f.N-a rrrv 1.1. \J i.J isMsu ofCo?d, Vnfo Prof/,fr')i*.pav8 arts.« 1 lä Univer 6.-n Ibtor.v Jefr priir flutlon for hi Bier* today, 1« troublf 1 cicly w*y M. to io by adding asBump- lown, tue 1 be taken I ccommo bot th|. Ethöut at pte details pen it was pditita are sold "be |CC. causes E'jf living, fa Irapör» catfsloe United of gold Hollsr." ?tbia bei. iover the rw. yeSrs, fo».' 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