The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-03-28

Ambassador during the balance OF the
Wilson term. In little more than
year he can add Former Ambassador
to his other titles.
Washington, March 23.-Secretary
McAdoo and his party of Argonauts
sailed recently for Buenos Aires,
where they will attend the deliber-
atoms of the Pan-American Joint
High Commission. Mr. McAdoo will
tell the Latin-Americans how he fools
the people of this country in regard
to the net balance in the general fund
of the Treasury Department. In other
words, his Interpretation of the golden
fleece.
Amy rags, any bottles, any bones
| today?
It's the same old boiler in the same
old way!"
This is the song the Department OF
Commerce is singing. In another one
of those "Confdential-(ShD for use
of Morning Papers" illusions which
make their diurnal flight from the
Redfeldian publicity headquarters, we
are asked to save our rags for by so
our paper industry and a diminished
drain upon our sources of supply for
new materials" The Department Of
Commerce declares that it will be
glad to put inquirers in touch with
manufacturers who are interested
So if any of you have any old rags to
sell the department will be your agent
Most of us, however, will be obliged
to wear our old rags until Repub-
licanism and resultant prosperity
illume the land.
Some time ago the department
wanted to go into the bone business
on Pribil of Islands. Bottles and old
junk next.
In Boston alone German merchant
steamers are interned with a total
capacity of $3.50 tons. This explains
a large part of the shortage of ocean
transportation. AS soon as the war is
over, these ships, with others interned
in other ports of the United States
and Of other neutral nations, will re-
enter the transportation business. The
enactment of a government purchase
act would not release these ships.
Since building yards already
have all the orders they can fill within
the next two years, government ap-
preparations for the purchase of ships
could not increase the quantity of
shipping available, but might enable
private owners to unload ships upon
the government at high prices which
would Immediately decline when a
peace treaty has set the German ships
free to re-enter active trade
Millions Of head of meat animals
have been lost to the meat producing
industry in Europe on account of the
increased consumption of meat and
the wasteful methods of killing 1t
will take years of careful breeding to
restore the destroyed herds. For this
reason we shall have for many years
a relative scarcity of meat products
land a correspondingly increased
market value Thus will American
farmers profit for several years to
come as result of the war in Europe
The postponing of an important vote
in Congress in order to permit Demo-
cratic members from Indiana to pass
over the date of their primaries with
out having to go on record on a most
important national question, is a fair
measure of the motives which actuate
the Democratic party in it's conduct of
the country's affairs In this case
what the Democratic leaders would
like to have counted as courtesy is
really cowardice and will be resented
as such as soon as the people find a
chance to express themselves
Samuel Untermeyer declares that
when history records it's verdict the
Wilson method of handling foreign
relations will prove to be the brightest
page in diplomatic annals Samuel is
a lawyer, and in this case he talks like
a man who has just received a big fee
for the defence.
Washington, March 24.-(Special
Correspondence Congressman AL
bert Johnson of the Third Washing
ton district, has issued a statement to
the voters of this district, which rings
with patriotism. He says: "The
United States needs now and will con-
tinue to need tariff wall, an immi-
grafton wall, and defense wall We
want neither commercial invasion,
an immigrant invasion nor a terri
tOrial invasion. With prompt action
now, we need never have any one of
these. In my opinion, the Republican
party is more likely to furnish all
three Of these necessary projections,
than is any other party With the
enactment and continuance of laws
against these three dangers, we may
| feel that the United States will be as
secure fifty Or one hundred years from
now, as on the fourth day of March
next, when we shall have inaugurated
a Republican President"
THE great fzzle the Democratic
administration Senators made in try
| ing to get an endorsement of the
President on his submarine policy,
will continue long to be a subject of