Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1919 — Page 2

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WHAT THE “INVESTIGATIONS” SHOW

Though the spirit which conceived and the methods which have characterized the Republican “investigations” into the conduct of the war merited the condemnation they have received even from organs of the g. o. p., these partisan scrutinies of Democratic administration , have not bdfen devoid of value. They have completely confuted the Republican, charges that there was crookedness, corruption or incompetence among those in high places. Moreover, these in■quirles have demonstrated that the

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Republicans undertook them not so much to discover and punish wrongdoing as to find material for the next presidential campaign. These two things have been made abundantly evident to the people of the country. They have become clear also to the shrewder of Republican leaders, who are now manifesting a desire to drop the proceedings and seek other and better issues.

The Democrats, on their part, have never sought refuge in any denial that great sums of money were spent; Ijut'- have constantly conceded that suck would be found as an inseparable by-product of the stress ana J pressure under which the country labored to enter the war and finish it quickly and decisively. The administration had the choice between two courses when this country declared war against Germany in April, 1917. There was the option of moving slowly and cautiously, to prevent loss of money, but with an inevitable sacrifice of more precious time; or of making haste at the risk of waste. Economy of money purchased at the expense of delay would have cost thousands of lives and perhaps victory itself. If the administration had elected to economize with dollars while it postponed effective participation in the conflict; if Germany had crushed the allies while we haggled over expenses, then indeed the Republicans would have been able to bring an indictment, against Democratic management of the war.

DELAY THAT IS COSTLY

Leaders of the Republican congress may deny, but they cannot refute the clear evidence of their utterly futile and resultless career as the nation’s legislators during

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the six months of the present special session. Save for the passage of appropriation bills —which went to meet the heavy expense of this extraordinary session, among other things—there has been no legislation that fulfills their own promises or that meets the demands of the country. But two important measures, besides the fiscal bills, have come before the senate in the long period since last May, and no final action has been takpn with respect to either. One of these, of course, is the immeasurably vital treaty of peace. The other is the railroad bill. Failure to ratify the treaty and to adopt the league of nations has not merely delayed peace for the present and withheld a guarantee of its continuance in the future, but has actually disturbed the tranquility of the entire world. Strikes, riots, sedition and agitation have been fostered by the uncertainty which the senate’s dalliance with the treaty has created. Want of a definite arrangement for the operation of the railroads has contributed to the instability of business in every quarter of the country. Of less import, but yet of significance, is tne cost of all this inaction and reaction. The exipanse of keeping congress in session for the last six months is $3,000,000. That is not d guess; it is an official figure. It means that congress has spent of the taxpayers’ inymey about $1,500,000 in fighting the treaty and an equal sum in postponing a satisfactory disposition of the railroads. All that the special session has done in an affirmative way could have been accomplished within three weeks if there had been a disposition to support the president instead of hampering and humiliating himThere has been instead a reckless waste of time and money and opportunity—with one of the consequences of it visiblo in the industrial upheaval now in progress.

EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS

The special session of congress has furnished daily demonstrations of what President Wilson had in mind last autumn when he issued an appeal to the people to return a Democratic congress. He had had experience with Republican individuals in the blocking of war legislation, and knew they would not hesitate to handle the big reconstruction problems, then self-evi-dent, in the same way. It is hardly likely that Chairman Hays of the Republican national committee could have been addressing himself to the majority in the present congress when he said that the need is not "for less politics but for more attention to politics." Republicans In the house and the senate have not overlooked politics In anything, though they have often lost sight of everything else.

In the midst of the debate on "reservation" in the senate a few days ago, a man in the galleries arose and declared that he bad received a supernal command to make a speech on the league of nations. But as “wild reservatlonists" are allowed to hamper public business only from the floor of the senate, the poor fellow was ejected and confined. The Republican majority In both the senate and the house has passed little remedial legislation, and then only upon the insistence of the president and other Democratic leaders. Republican senators and representatives, elected on thei> pledges to help carry out the Wilson policies, immediately forgot their promises. They are hindering, not helping. Theodore Roosevelt’s doctrines and policies will govern the Republican party’s dealing with lr** dustrial problems, says Chairman Hays of the Republican national committee- But Roosevelt living could not get a hearing for his (policies from Mr. Hays and other "standpatters." All the Republican experts have been set to work, microscopes in hand, to find a germ of hope in the returns of the recent gubernatorial and other local elections. Their discoveries thus far have not been regarded as encouraging to the Republican leaders in the senate.

Senators who wanted to kill the treaty with an axe; senators who wanted to take its life with poison; senators who wanted to paralyze it in all its members, and a few senators who wanted to let it live and function —these are the groups in the Republican “majority” in the senate. - • It costs the taxpayers $20,000 a day to keep the Republican congress in its present state of inactivity. If these senators and representatives don’t like to work they can strike —and save the people a lot of money. t Smug otpponents of the treaty are condemning industrial agitators. But it is quite as bad for Republican senators to prevent international peace as it is for the agitator to disturb domestic tranquility.

Some Republican organs are publishing articles to prove that the house of representatives, at least, has passed some bills. Yes, but the Republican senate has only “passed the buck.” Senator Lodge is about to experience difficulties with a new treaty —that between the defeatists and the “mild reservationists” This pact is in force subject to reservations. Notwithstanding all Republican efforts to carry the state, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate is able to sing with appropriateness, “Maryland, My Maryland.”

THE FEDERAL LAND BANK OF LOUISVILLE DECLARES A DIVIDEND

V. M. Peer, secretar-treas-urer of the Walker Township National Farm Loan association, has just received notice from the Federal Land bank of Louisville that the directors have declared a dividend of 6 % per annum on all stock held by national farm loan associations. This will enable this association to declare a dividend to its shareholders', who are farmers in this vicinity borrowing from the Federal Land hank. This dividend is not unexpected by persons acquainted with the progress being imade by this bank. Althpugh it has been in business for a little more than two years it has paid all of its organization expenses and has placed 25% of its net earnings in reserve account, and after paying this dividend has a nice sum left in the undivided profits-

Regular dividends will be declared in the future. This dividend serves to reduce the interest rates to the borrowers. All of the iprofits of the bank go back to the borrowers in dividends, thereby giving the money to them at actual cost. The borrowers will soon realize that the stock owned by them in the national farm loan association and the Federal Land bank is a good investment and one to he highly valued. The Louisville bank now has loans of more than $19,000,000 and it is estimated they will Increase to $30,000,000 within the next year. The success of the Federal Land bank is assured.

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