The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-04-07
MEMQQGAgSE
Of MUGHNQRRY
N washington
Wilson'S supineness As
Marked Today AS At
Any Time.
TARIFF and The FARMER
Significant Statistics Com
piled by Democratic Of
flee Holders.
TARIEE and THE Farmer

WASHINGTON, Apri! THE anx'
fety5ofE the military experts In WASH:
inHtonfoyer the Mexican situation ana
fheinosition Of General Fershtng's COM
Snand increases daily. General Funs'
ton has indicated that It would De
thiehly unwIse to send any consideFa'
LIsf body OF Americans in further pur.
sift az Villa, who has eluded General
Perahipg and gone south, because mat
Ewou1dt involve, a line OF communion
fion7so.long as to make it entirely pos
sjhIa7for even small bands of villa foI'
lowers, or Sympathizers to break IT,
Sifsisi believed here that Villa has prok'
a,Snn his command, II 1t can be dignl'
fad nv O formal a lame, into smaIl
Nodded Instructed to mislead n mar
saasf the American troops wherever pos
4 10 attack American supply trains
h thew can found unprotected, ana
ia meek ven by the murder anu Pill
8iaga If any American civilians who
ISaT he encountered. Carranzas re-
Efnsal to permit this country to utilize
+ba MEXICAN railroads to transport
fToons and supplies has, of course
S1aatIy hampered the efforts Of Cen.
SeraisE Pershing and Funston, while an
aDnea1s to Washington to permit the
.SorcibIe utilization OF the roads nave
heeng emphatically refused by PFesl-
Ssnt Wilson, whose supineness IN
dealing with the Mexican ID
"a marked today as 1t was when Car
TanZa Haunted the United states Two
wears ago during the Niagara Mcula-
Hon} Conference. -
Army Now overstratned
The resources OF the Army are AZ
readV strained to the breaking point
and there are practically no more
fTaons to send into Mexico. To so
sonnterfto the advice of General Funs-
fonEwhich is cordially endorsed py
~ military experts in washington
wnn1d involve grave risk OF disaster
rs soldiers already on Mexican
soii. Their peril, 1t Is felt by the mill
,aFsTv authorities, is already sutnclenI
esgTeat. They are confronted by ex'
neTtSenerilla fighters. armed with the
iatestStype OF h~igh.powered rifles anu
the5best ammunition, which has been
Snnnlied TO them by American manu-:
F~acfurers with the encouragement Oh
fhe6Pfesident OF the United states. II
IA realized that any general slaughter
ofsthe soldiers in Pershing's
wnuld inevitably be followed by sucn
sn6oyerwhelming demand for repris'
aissand6 for a Strengthening out OF con
ditions in Mexico generally that the
administration could hardly resist IT,
muchHa IA It would wish to. And any
General invasion OF Mexico will neces,
s~ifateEvastly increasing the personnel
otS the army.
Tariff and the Farmer
THAT the Democratic tariff has prov
adihiehlys inturious to the farmer with.
Snt8the slightest Offset In reduced
nTfcas to the consumer is a~bundantly
nroVedG by the statistics compiled by
nsmocratfc officials of the Govern
mont. The importation Of meats and
dairy products. wool. farm animals
YnciudfnR cattle, hogs, sheep n poul'
fFyl.eg and such products of the soil
sSSerains, hay, vegetables and plants
hasSincreased by leaps and bounds
During the first ten months OF tne
underwood bill the increase In this
cIaasgofg importation over the import
s%nceSduring a like period of the Payne
SIN amounted to $102,0 00, 900. or l42
S1ergcent. Even the war, which has OPP
Grated in some respects like a pro
fectiye tariff by diminishing foreign
production and increasing the foreign
demand could not Offset the reduced
Yates 8of the Underwood bill, the in
crease during ten months Of the war
finder}th Democratic measure being
100Sber cent. over a like under the
PayneIhiIl It requires no expert econ
onaistS or statisttcian to calculate what
injurySwould have been done the farm
f8had not the European wal inter
Yened to diminish to some extent the
effects OF the Democratic tart1, OF
WhatEWoulds be the results to the farm
ersHik the war should suddenly cease
before;tha bill is radically revised
The Secret Revealed
Secretary Daniels has, unwitt!ngl.y
noEdoubt, revealed the secret OF his
hostility to Admiral FIske and the rea'
sonsSwhich prompted him 70 send the
AdmiralNaway from Washington, &C
thatshe could not corrupt the moral
SofstheYinnoceut Congressman. Admir-
aisF4ske! according to Mr.. Daniels, was
pIfity2ofl the unladylike conduct Of in
siatinF that the Navy should be con
ducted upon "m~ilItaristic principles
TO the Infinite distress of %Josephus
ma his patron, William Jenningt
Bryant the Admiral had no sympathy
With4the formers kindergarten class
es3forgJackies, actually scoffed at Dan
ielsgschemeSt to teach the sailormen T.
knit socks for suffering soldiers. and
20 Conducted himself as to run the
nix OF encouraging the fighting
Spiritss In the Navy. AS the New
York American" put It. admiral
FisksA has not only proved that he Il
not an officer and a lady; but that he
hasn'taany conception Of the proper
functions ofsthe United States Navy
PoIltleal! straWs
The political strawst furnished by
iocalsandtmunicipal elections continue
AFFORD strong evidence Of. the direc
ton IA which the political wind Is
Blowing and almost without excep,
Ton they indicate that 1t is dead
laEsinst the Democratic party. Hart
ford Conn, has Just held an election
"a whichEt1e Republican candidate fol
Mayor was elected by q large major
Observation-Disclosures Board of Alder
YfanEdfaninredkbySA Republican board