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TOE ALLIANCE (NEBRASKA) HERALD
Thursday, April 3, 1919
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. " Mil. WILSON'S TIUUMPIf
(From the New York" Times)
Americans who regretted the pres
ident's decision to absent himself
' from the country In these days of
domestic need and urgency, and the
Times was one of those- which re
gretted it, will not only cheerfully
B'lmlt the greatness of his achieve
ments at the Tarls conference, but
v 111 rejoice in their recognition of
hiii now amply demonstrated fitness
for tin work he undertook. Mr.
Wilson's presence at the conference
hns not been a cause of discord or of
jealousy: It has not been resented.
It was seen from the beginning that
Iwwfi ' there not to dominate, as
his critics said, but to unite the na
tions. He has been rotrvelously suc
cessful tn bringing lto agreement
men who represented interests that
seemed to be conflicting. His influ
ence in this work has prevailed be
cause all the other nations repre
sented looked upon him as a wise
and impartial friend, Interested only
' in making Justice and the welfare of
peoples the basis of the decisions
rntehvd. His triumph in securing
unanimous approval of the league of
n.'lons constitution is one in which
every America may take pride.
Mr. Wilson has a, dreadful way
with his critics. He does not reply
to them, he des worse. They rail
R' him as an Idealist, a visionary, a
man without'practlcal objectives, or
if he have them, that they are Im
possible of acceptance; and they
ob'tKlnRly point out the things he
ou&ht to do. Mr. Wilson calmly
continues his great labors, and pres
ently lays his crKlos flat and leaves
them helpless cither by doing the
very aihlngs they had proposed, and
doing in a manner better than they
ever dreamed of, or elpe by attain
ing his ends In a way that robs their
objections of every point. We are
confident that Mr. Deck, for instance,
must regret the violence of the lan
guage he used In his Lincoln Day
address when he said that Mr." Wil
son's foreign policy throughout "has
been a black stain of dishonor upon
the American people"; that "his
principles have been a crazy patch
work of contradictions," consistent
only, in one Idea, that the war "must
end in a peace without victory." If
this be Just criticism, then' Mr. Wil
son has as his accomplices In dishon
oring the American people, in con
structing "his crazy patchwork of
contradictions," and in bringing the
war to an end without victory, some
fourteen nations of the earth, in
cluding the greatest civilized na
tions. Such criticism recoils disas
trously upon him who utters it. Not
even the natural desire, of a great
poUtlcal party to find or create "Is
sues" for the coming presidential
election can give lodgment in the
minds and hearts of the people to
this estimate of Mr. Wilson's distin
guished service.
The day when the project of the
covenant of peace was approved un
animously In Paris was one . of the
greatest in the world's history. The
people of all the nations understand
that; the people of America, with
their horror of war, cannot be fooled
about It, they cannot be misled into
any small and narrowlew of Its mo
mentous promise. In bringing the
plan of the league into form and ac
ceptance, Mr. Wilson has played a
master role, every American feels
that in his heart, evety American un-
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derstands that he brought great abil
ities, extraordinary qualities of tact
and persuasion, and a profound un
derstanding of the need of all the
peoples to performance of his
task. The American people will be
Impatient of any petty or partisan
obstruction put in the way of the ac
ceptance of this covenant of the na
tions as their public system of law
and Justice.
PKOHI'KltOfH AMKIUCA
In the year 1909, when nobody
had a thought of this country ever
being involved In a world: war, our
exports to foreign countries amount
ed In value to $252,000,000. In 1918
the big year of the war, the total
value of our exports had grown to
$3,150,000,000.
In 1914 the United States govern
ment owed foreign- countries $4,000,
000,000. At the beginning of 1919.
all this foreign debt had been wiped
out and 'foreign countries were ow
ing the United States $10,000,000,
000. In 1913-while we were at peace
with the world, we pointed v. with
pride to our deposits in banks, then
aggregating $6, 05 1,0 00.0 00. Today
after having gone through the
great war, our people purchasing 18
billion dollars' of Liberty Bonds, be
sides contributing billions to other
war activities, and paying the high
cost of living the total deposits la
the united States amount to $15,-
U5i,uuo,ouo, Having Increased $9,
000.000,000 during the war.
These are staggering figures, and'
we might go on telling how America
and Americans have prospered as no
other nation or people ever prosper
ed before. Ours .was a righteous
cause and we were not in the war
for gain, yet through It all our oeo-
ple piled Op and are still piling up
weaKh beyond the dreams of the
wildest optimist. And now that the
government is about to launch Its
Victory Liberty Loan to finish the
war Job, the 6,000,000,000 or $6,-
vuu.uoo.ooo the people are to he
asked to lend at interest as an in
vestment will not be a "drop in the
bucket" as compared with what Am
erica could do if necessity arose.
DKSTUl'CTIVH CJ. O. P. FILIBU8-
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By a filibuster conceived 'in hos
tility to President Wilson, Republi
can senators defeated bills appropri
ating some $3,000,000,000 for the
operation of the government and the
demobilization of the army. Presi
dent Wilson suffers nothing In pres
tige or in the public's confidence by
reason of this show of petty parti
sanship, although, like every other
citizen, he must have been pained for
the sake of those who inspired it.
In the list of bills which this Re
publican Obstruction prevented from
enactment were several that are vital
to a quick and thorough reconstruc
tion of, the nation's commerce and
Industry; to the employment of la
bor and to a fitting provision for re
turning soldiers and sailors. Some
of these measures, sufh as that con
templating homesteads for soldiers,
and that authorizing the formation
of a regular army to relieve the men
overseas, were of the utmost import
ance to millions of citizens who had
deserved the best, not the worst, of
congress.
Those Republican leaders who
concocted and conducted the fil mus
ter against, legislation which the
whole country has been expecting
and urging have assumed grave re
sponsibility. The bills were before
them; there was a majority in their
favor; there was the admission, even
of the Republicans themselves by
their voice' and votes that they
were indispensable to the govern
ment and private enterprise. Yet,
to gratify a spite against the chief
executive they failed in their duty as
legislators and worked harm to ev
ery Interest, public and private.
POLITICAL CHICANKKY IN THE
DISCARD
Some men, who take a more or
less active part in politics, due to
their position, their business or their
inclination, appear to believe that
the old political methods of double
crossing and underhanded work at
elections will still win success. Men
who practice these methods and who
still favor them can learn lessons by
recent elections. The people take
more interest- In elections than they
did in past years and they. Cote ac
cording to their convictions. Once
in a while they may be fooled by the
statements of unscrupulous men but
they speedily find this out when men
who do not "make good" are elect
ed. . v
The voting by women was a new
thing for Nebraska and politicians
were deeply Interested. At the Al
liance election they walked to the
polls, took their ballots and voted
them as their Judgment dictated. We
predict that the women will make
excellent use of their new voting
power at all elections and trust that
the day is not far off when they will
have unlimited suffrage. In Nebras
ka this will undoubtedly follow the
amending of the constitution.
- NKUHASKA WILL IIBCKIVW
PART OF WAIt KQC1PMKXT
. The federal aid law Las been
further amended to permit all
surplus war equipment and ma-
terlals that could be used for
road building purposes to be
distributed among the states on
the same basis as the federal
funds are distributed. As grav-
1 el will be used in surfacing the
greater part of Nebraska roads
.the army trucks obtained under
this amendment can be used to
advantage in hauling materials.
All of the roads will be of a
uniform grade.' In order to do
'this it will be necessary to use
machinery on a large scale.
Tractors received from the War
Department will be of , great
benefit In carrying on this con-
structlon.
FKDKRAL AID filVttfl
tJOLDKN OPPORTUNITY
Under the federal road act of
1916 Nebraska received $640,-
000 for road Improvement dur
lug 1917 and 1918. The con-
ditlon under which this 'federal
aid was given was that the
state should, raise a like amount
for this purpose. This require-
ment was met by an appropria-
tion made by the legislature
two years ago.
Under the amended federal
roau act over $3,000,000 will be
available June 30, 1919, and
$2,000,000 will be available
June 30, 1920, ' from federal,
funds for road building In this
state. This amendment, 'Just as
the original act, stipulates that
an equal amount must be pro-
vlded by the state for road im-
provement. The appropriation
must be used within two years
from the time It Is available or
It will be lost.
How shall the state raise
$3,000,000 In order to take ad-
vantage of this proffer of fed-
eral funds, is the all-important
question. - It has been suggest-
ed that the various counties of
the state be asked to raise the
money to meet the federal ap-
propriatlon. But this plan is
not practicable. About .75 per
cent of the counties are'already
making the maximum levies al-
lowed under the state constitu-
tion according to reports which
have been filed with the Feder-
al department. If additional
funds were raised it would have
to be by bond issues and this
would Involve more expense
than would a direct state levy.
It is proposed that the funds
to meet the federal appropria-
tion be raised by a levy. This
matter needs the at-tentton of
our present legislature because,
in order to make the funds
available under the year limit,
the projects would have to be
laid out, surveyed, and approv-
ed by tfce government Immedi-
ately.
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Horse Still a Going Concern
Horses are hardly maintaining
their number on farms in this coun
try, in consequence of the autotruck,
the automobile, and the needs of the
war, and yet there are nearly as
many In the country now as a year
ago, according to the. Bureau of Crop
Estimates Of the United States De
partmentof Agriculture. Further
more, there are now one-third of a
million more than at the beginning
of the waf. It was expected that
the war would stampede the horse
market In this country an dwould
send prices high enough to rob the
farms of a lare number of much
needed work animals, but there was
no such shock as was expected. From
1910 to 1915 horses on farms In
creased a little each year, usually ov
er 1 per cent, And since 1915 the In
crease of four years has apparency
been over 300,000. The present to
tal, according to the estimate, Is
21,534,000 horses. The exports of
horses during the war to December
31, 1918, have been slightly more
than 1,000,000; at the prewar rate
the normal exports would have been
about a.w.OOO. As far as covered
by domestic exports, the war made
an extra demand on farmers for al
most 900,000 horses. To this must
be added the extra demand of the
United States Government. By Jan
uary 11, 1919. the War Department
had shipped overseas nearly 39,000
horses, and -on Nqvember 2, 1918,
that department had in this counts'
nearly 165,000 horses. The appar
ent figures of extra demand on the
farmers of .the United States by this
country and the allies for horses on
account of the war make a total of
about 1,100,000 horses In exports
and In the service of the War De
partment. The actual number Is
greater by tlfe normal exports, and
hence about 1,200,000 horses are In
dicated as the horse contribution of
the farms to the war, not including
private purchases and the United
States Government outside of the
War Department.
FARMER GOES MILES
TO TELL OF RELIEF
"I have come twenty-elz miles to
tell you what Tanlac has doae for
me," said Joe M. Vinson, a well
known farmer of Love, Miss., while
in Memphis recently. , ' . '
"Three years. ago," he' continued,
"my stomach got all out of order, I
couldn't digest a thing and for eight
months lived on buttermilk: and the
white of eggs. I was too nervous to
sleep well, gas on my stomach made
me miserable. ' I had spells .of dull
ness, would almost faint and could
hardly get my breath. I had split
ting headaches and was so billons
that I would often vomit.
"Since taking Tanlac my health Is
as good as anybody's and I feel like
a new man. I eat anything I want,
sleep like a rock, all the misery and
swelling has gone from my stomach.
I have gained fifteen pounds and can
do a hard day's work. I wouldn't
be in the same fix I was before tak
ing Tanlac for my farm and the
stock thrown In." N
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