The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1913-11-20

free hand in giving consulships and
did not object when congress threw
the income tax appointments to the
spoilsmen and he approved the bill
taking internal revenue positions and
F., deputy marshalships out of the classi
fled service. Though he has denounc-
O.; ''every form Of special privilege
and exemption he took the initiative
In having reintroduced the sundry
civil bill, including the proyiso that
funds for antitrust prosecutions
should not be used against labor
unions and farmers associations. He
permitted the announcement that
President Wilson does not believe
that the antitrust act should be en-
forced against labor unions or coop
erative associations of farmers" In
the face Of many protests and Of a
reminder from ex-senator Edmunds,
one Of the authors Of the antitrust
law that an amendment exempting la
and rejected when the measure was
In the senate, he approved the bill, His
explanation Of this act IL condemned
as indirect and evasive by George
Harvey, his former chief fugleman, in
an article In the North American Re-
view.
Acts Don't Square With Professed
Principles.
why did he do these things? They
do not square with the principles he
proclaimed prior to election. He
seems inclined to trim his principles
to fit expediency. He has certain big
things to do. He can not do them
without the aid of congress. In order
to insure this aid he seems to make
concessions on matters which ne con
siders OF minor Importance. or what
consequence are few civil service
jobs or an illusory concession to labor
unions by comparison with tariff re-
vision. currency reform and the pros
pective antitrust and conservation
bills? The college professor appears
to be more of politician than the old
hands have supposed.
Miserabiy Weak in Foreign Affairs
The weakest point in Mr.. Wilson'S
administration has been his foreign
policy. 1t shows all the weaker In
contrast with the strength and con-
sistency of his domestic policy When
California proposed anti-Japanesf
laws, Mr. Wilson tied his hands wit
state rights theories, then sent Mr.
Bryan to intercede with California and
to get his face slapped. He declared
against dollar diplomacy in China
though that is the only kind Of d.
plomacy practiced by our European
rivals in commerce or by China her.
self. He thereby shut the door of
China on American investment and
enterprise.
BuneIed Mexican Situation.
At the outset Mr., Wilson announced
his opposition to any man who seized
control of Latin American govern
ment by force, although force is the
only means by which governments are
established in Central and South
America and is the only mandate rec
ognized by the peoples of those coun-
tries. Subsequent events suggest that
he must have had Mexico in mind
when he made this declaration, for
he has been trying ever since to in
duce that grim soldier, Huerta, to step
down. Since Huerta yields to no ar
gument except force the very admin
istration which has the deepest alb
norrence of militarism has brought us
t. the alternative between armed in
PREVENTION and a humiliating back
down.
Bryan Earns Ridicule.
The same weakness has marked our
efforts to advance the cause of inter
national arbitration. Mr. Bryans