Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-08-04

to steel, iron, coal aad Oil costs, In &C
cordance with the fair profits" order
or President Wilson and may be com
pleted in six months. Francis J. Heney
Is in charge of the legal end of it.
Hampering Our Government.
AS the United States swiftly ap.
pr0acheS more active participation in
the war, the German agents and spies
and their friends in the country be-
come more bold and enterprising in
their efforts to hamper the govern
ment. These efforts range all the way
from ridiculous stories of American
soldiers dying like flies from disease
in Europe, designed to discourage en-
listing; plots to prevent the harvesting
of crops in the West by doctorng court
| plaster with tetanus bacilli; burning
! OF elevators and warehouses and eX-
| plosions in factories; killing Of live
| stock; fomenting of str kes and riots,
up through attempts to involve the
country in international troubles with
friendly nations, to deliberate blocking
OF much needed legislation by United
States senators whose constituents
number large numbers of German
Americans. The hyphenated term is
used still because the people alluded
to themselves seem unwilling to have
1t discarded. Their press and the ac-
tons and words of many of them make
this clear.
An instance of the way in which
legislation is delayed was supplied last
week. The aviation bill appropriating
S6400O0,O00, passed by the house and
admittedly of prime Importance, came
up in the senate, the government and
all its expert advisers in the matter of
aviation urging that it be made law
before the week closed But Hard
wick of Georgia and Owen Of Okla
homa proposed amendments that made
certain a long debate, and La Toilette
of Wisconsin and Gronna of North Da-
kota aided in the blocking process in
order to make attacks on the draft
clause. No one will accuse these men
of being personally disloyal to their
country, but the. course Of action fol-
lowed by them and others often is as
effectual as if they were.
The professional pacifsts and the So
cialists are singing smaller these days.
The former meet with little sympathy
and support, and the Socialist party is
losing some of it's choicest members |
because of its pro-German attitude.
More Trouble for Russia.
Russia's progress toward victory and
a stable government met with two set
backs last week, though both it is to
be hoped are only temporary. In the
effort to check the great drive of the
Slavs in Galicia the Teutons rushed
up large re-enfOrcementS drawn from
the French and Italian fronts, and
these forces compelled the Russians to
nvacuate the important town Of
Kalusz, which had been the German
army headquarters and the capture
If which by them had threatened Lem
)erg. The fighting in this region was
ierce all the week, and on the whole
he Russians did not have much the
worst of it,
1t is interesting to learn that Brit
sh armOred motor attachments and
Belgian troops are taking part in the
russian offensive in Galicia, and are
DING good work.
At home the provisional government
vas attacked by Petrograd rioters led
" agitatOrs Of the Bolshiviki and
Iaximalist factions who demanded the !
emoval of the capitalist" ministers. (
lost Of the troops in the capital were
Oyal and soon suppressed the new !
revolution" though several persons Y
ere killed and many wounded. At l
he same time three or four members q
the cabinet resigned and the pre- 7
her, Prince LvOff, announced that as z
Don as the disorders are ended steps f
ill be taken for the formation of v
Dalition cabinet. The councils of the
Orkmen and soldiers and of the peas f
nts denounced the riots as the acts Of /,
'aitOrS. The wonder is not that there O
lould be such disorders in Russia but /,
nat they should not be more and fl
'eater. G
MchaeIis With the Junkers. n
Germany's new imperial chancellor, Y
octor Michaelis, made on Thursday
e address to the reichstag which had n
zen awaited with intense interest. If II
e peace party in the empire had d.
pected his support, it was disap- fl
tinted, for he plainly took the side n,
the junkers and declared his ad- ia
sion to the submarine campaign as "
lawful measure, justifably adopted. in
d adapted for shortening the war. W
lie majority parties in the relchstag, tn
the other hand. decided to introduce A.