The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-02-23

tain in Mexico. If Missouri at that
period had adjoined the Canadian line
and our Missouri bandits had gone
over into Canada and committed like
depredations on the Canadian people.
thru numbering some of their citi-
zens and robbing their banks, would
we feel that England was justified in
making war upon US because we were
unable to control these bandits, who
in no wise represented the body polite
of our state? This is the situation in
respect to the bandit raids on the
Mexican border. So far as 1 am per-
sonally concerned, I approve of Mr..
Wilson's course as to Mexico. The
situation has been a difficult one in
deed. 1t is certain that President
Wilson has had more difficult prob
lens to confront him, and with which
to DEAL than any president we have
ever had from the days of Washing
ton until the present time, save Mr..
Lincoln alone. Notwithstanding this,
he has steered the ship of state safely
| mid the turmoil of the warning ma
lions of the world, and has kept us at
peace.
The European War.
/ Thus far President Wilson has
kept us out of the horrors of the
world war He demanded and Sc
cured from Germany her pledge %
abandon the submarine war against
neutral ships and the destruction of
The Huerta Incident.
| Much has been said by the critics
! of President Wilson that he sent the
navy down to Vera Cruz to compel
Huerta to salute the flag and that
Huerta never did salute it. President
/ Wilson did, at a critical time, send
the sea forces of the United States to
Mexico, following the action of few
Mexicans in a boat toward some Unit
| ed States marines, causing an affront
to our flag. 1t is true the flag was
| not Saluted but the mission or the
fleet was to force Huerta, who became
president thru assassination, TO on-
cially make reparation for the insult
Carranza became the president defacto
and the disturbing factor, Huerta
himself. was removed entirely from
the situation; he was gone. why
should we keep the fleet there indef1-
nitely?
Federal Trade Commission.
TT was President Wilson who estab-
lished the federal trade commission
following his proposal to take the
tariff out of politics, thru the creation
business-like method to secure justice
for the purchasers and the producers
of this country should come thru
federal trade commission OF capable,
expert men, who should investigate
business conditions and control and
regulate big business, just as the in
terState commerce commission mas
controlled and regulated the railroads
1t was in the interest of the masses
=. of the people, and President Wilson
had the same humane thought that
was typicalIy Lincoln's thought, tic
was typically Lincoln's thought: to
ence to property interests.
1.-The federal trade commission is
developing as one of the greatest ex-
amples to curb trusts who seek to
create large dividends rather than JUS
tice to those dependent upon these
industries so often controlled by COM
binations to the injury of other bust
ness and suffering of the public
The White Print Paper Crisis.
1.-THE newspaper men of this coun-
: try have an illustration which has
; just been brought pointedly to their
: notice and advantage. The federal
t trade commission has been at work
: for a year investigating the paper in
: I-dustry. The paper manufacturers
have turned the screws on the pub
: fishers of this country, depriving them
l of profits in their business, imperiling
their institutions and in some cases
crushing them out of existence. White
print paper more than doubled II
) price. The federal trade commission
/. has made the announcement that the
r enormous increases in the price OF
white paper were unwarranted by
, manufa curing conditions. They dis
covered evidences of wrongful com
2 binationS and restriction of trade, an6
stated they would lay their evidence
before the department of justice.
President Wilson. in his desire tt