The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1916-10-26
The war brought new problems to
this country. There is always large

amount of farm produce which must
find a market in other countries.
Having no ships to carry these prod
ucts, the present administration ap-
propriated 100000 that they might
be carried to their destined markets
and also to insure their loss in trans
portation. Another $4,000, 900 was
appropriated to build ships that would
carry the products without depending
upon foreign bottoms. The U. S. gov
eminent will own these ships to
be used as commerce carriers in time
of peace, and they will become trans
ports in the event of war.
It has been said that much of the
legislation of the present administra-
ton was inspired by the hope of pro-
viding places in the government SER
vice for deserving democrats. Each
law must of necessity have some hu-
man agency to enforce them. The
greater part of the employees connect
ed with the execution of the most i'm
portant legislation are private posi-
tions, and these have nothing to do
with the government. The reserve
banks, the regional bank, the rural
credits board and the tariff commits
sion are all non-partisan. This gives
the democrat and the republican an
equal chance.
In regard to Wilson's foreign policy,
he stated that the leading republicans
such as Roosevelt, Root, Smoot and
Cannon commended the president un-
til before the primaries when the cam
paign started.
Hughes declared that the Lusitania
would never have been sunk had he
been president at the time. Sufficient
warnings had been sent out that the
vessel would never reach the overseas
destination. If the Americans who
sailed in the Lusitania did not have
any regard for their own lives, they
should have been patriotic enough to
stay at home. (Applause.)
Mr.. Burke further stated that we
need "great big patriotic American"
for president of these United States,
and that we would find our ideal in
Woodrow Wilson.
The Presidents Mexican policy
should be upheld by every American
citizen because by negotiations he pre-
vented a bloody war that would no
doubt have continued for years. He
quoted the seventh paragraph of the
republican platform which promised
that our citizens on and near the bor-
der would be protected life and prop
erty, with accent on the property.
Hughes has not voted since 1870
Mr.. Burke declared, and set his audi
ence to wondering how many loyal
American citizens had been so negli-
gent Hughes has been too busy with
other things to cast his vote during
those six years and right among us
we have the busy men who travel hun
dreds of miles for that one good Am
erican privilege-voting.
One of the rumors being circulated
to injure the Wilson administration is
that all sorts Of rubbish will be sent
to the United States after the war and
that this country will be the dumping
ground Of the old world. That is absurd
in the exertme. What will the coun-
tries at war have to send here? Who
is cultivating@ the crops and what be-
comes of them? The countries at war
have enlisted every male over II years
OF age into service and it falls to the
lot of the old men, too old for service
in the army, to raise food enough to
feed the soldiers of their own coun-
tries and the war prisoners of other
countries-millions and millions of
hungry, starving men-and it is doubt
full if those upon whom it devolves to
harvest the crops have enough left for
themselves. We need fear no such
competition to American industries
after the war. The United States will
be great deal better off after the
war is over while the countries engag.
ed will be worse off. Conditions were
never better and prosperity is here to
stay.
Another stone that is being thrown
in President Wilson's way is the re-
port that he surrendered arbitration in
the enactment of the eight-hour law.
Such is far from the truth, Mr.. Burke
commended. What would that strike
have meant to the people and indus
tries of our states had it assumed pro-
portions President Wilson foresaw
the result and wisely acted. When he
saw there was no other way of ward
ing off the strike-no hope for arbi-
tration between the two great bodies
he called upon congress and hasty
action, the kind that was really needed,
was taken; his program was adopted.
But to prove that arbitration was not
surrendered the eight-hour law does
not become effective until January 1
next and congress meets again in De-
cember of this year.
Congress is the only power that can