Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1914-12-18

Of facing Congressional inquiry into
son has been all but attacked because
he has not fallen for the crazy war
chattcrers, and Elk President Taft has
caught some of the advese fire because
he declares that "the principle Of
common sense must be used in dealing
with the proposed question Of a larg-
er army and navy
Doubtless the venerable Andrew
Carnegie still has a warm spot in his
bosom for the steel trust which gave
him his millions. and though he is
pictured as the greatest peace advo-
the European war "must be fought to
the bitter end" Possibly the DUPONT
family, Lords of Delaware, might be
excused for membership in the war
party, and there are n lot of others
commercially interested who are not
to be blamed because they do not share
the views of the President and his
immediate predecessor that the Amer
lean people should compete with
Great Britain in building warships. or
with Germany in enforcing military
duty from every male citizen, Mr..
Taft In recent addresses expresses the (
belief that the warning nations Of
Europe will be brought to Il realization
of the benefits of arbitration ait the
end Of the present struggle, and he
and President Wilson will not agree /
with Mr. Gardner and those other gen
tlemen who apparently believe that /
the lesson of the great struggle in
Europe means that the United States
should become the competitor Of Eur
ope I'm arranging scientific and extern
sive methods for killing our fellow
men.
Rural Credits.
Congress has been staring at the
two conjuring words: Rural Credit"
for nearly a half dozen years, and there
have been many bills and plenty OF
speeches covering the subject. The
trouble has always been that only the
author of the bill, or the man who de-
livored the speech could be made to
believe in his remedy. Every man in
Congress who has farmers in his con-
stituency is a champion of rural
but while the words are sweet
mouthfuls, yet it is doubtful wheth-
FL there are many real ideas as to how
It is to be done. Secretary McAdoo
started in to fix up finances for the
southern cotton growers, and while
most of the men from the south are
too VIGOROUSLY polite to say what
hey think of the Secretarys inter-
erence, yet in private they will all
'onfide that "he didn't help by butting
n" No law or direction of the feder-
Il government has ever influenced a
rood banker to change the character
# his loans, and in the rural credit
'lans before Congress the lawmakers
Up to date have gotten no farther
han to find some sort of way by which
some one else' may loan money on
tops or land just a little differently
rom what it is done today Congress
as sent several delegations of junke-
ers to Europe to study foreign meth
DIS. and the verdict has always been
Diverse toward the European plan,
'hich provides about the same sort
+ help to the small farmer that he
m now obtain at an ordinary hook
hop by putting up his old clothes.
veryone believes in rural credits"
ut the man with an idea that goes
Irther than the mortgage loans, build II
Ig and loan societies, or the opera RI
ons of the local banker, has not yet ri
lbosomed his plan to the American u
ongress. Leading agriculturists and o.
have "resoluted" and de- "
AIRED that 1T is easy, and should be NJ
me without delay" but the commit &c
es of Congress have not yet found :
bill that was worth q favorable re- =
'rt. The man with sane. practical
ny who will take feasible bill to
ashington, will be as much a savior 81
was Joan of Arc when she went %
It and squelched the enemies of her in
nd when they were acting a good to
al like the Mexicans of today. We
Isy Times for American Ambassa- III
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doris in Europe. ~
The great war has multiplied the
'rl Of Aperican Ambassadors. In
airy ~ 'ne ruropesh capi'ius the ia