Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-10-11
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The Sioux Falls Press quotes with
approval the following extract from
an editorial in the Fargo IN. d. News
Courier, one Of the organs of the Non
partisan League:
F'sIt is current talk in all the chan.
nels of business that the captains OF
our finance have made more money
| out of the war then their fathers made
for a whole generation out of big
business. Young Morgan has made
more money in three years out OF
war contracts than his father made
out Of high finance during his whole
life. LaFollette has been blinded by
these hideous facts to the even great
err issue Of the world conflict
The Saturday News is inclined to
agree with both newspapers, although
lit has rarely accorded Senator LaFol-
lette support in his radicalism.
But that he has proven himself one
of the big men of the nation must be
conceded, we think. We are 10th to
believe that there is treason in his
heart, Very likely he has been
blinded by these hideous facts to the
even greater issue of the world con
fict,' if that be the appropriate way
of putting it.
He should recognize the fact that
America is in this war and that 1t is
going through with it. He does recog-
nize the fact, of course, but he fails
to recognize that other fact that,
while men should be privileged to
criticize and censure within the
bounds of reason, yoluminous fault
finding and carping criticism tend to
obstruct rather than help the cause,
even though conditions may not be as
they should be.
Senator LaFollette could accom-
plish vastly for his country ii
he would give it (rather if he had
given ity his loyal support after a
state of war was declared, so that
his influence would have remained
| Botal, during the period Of readjust.
ment following the close Of the war.
The senator is a brilliant MANN
some respects a great man--but. as
our Fargo contemporary intimates, he
has permitted the 'hideous facts" of
human greed to warp his Judgment
with respect to his duty to his coun-
try in such a great crisis as now con
fronts it.
The Aberdeen News suggests that
the papers OF the state and other
states might serve both the army and
the country by exercising discretion
in publishing letters from the boys
In training or at the front to rela-
tiyes and friends. These letters, OF
course, were not written for publica-
ton, and people are justified in say
ing to friends and close acquaintances
many things that would be inappro.
PIRATE for publication. Besides, as a
department official recently said. the
boys viewpoint at the front or in the
trenches is very limited.
It's very difficult to practice at all
times what ii breaches. We read
the other day a mild criticism OF
Theodore Roosevelt for his thrusts
now and then at the national admins,
rtation, notwithstanding he ii sup
porting the president in this war With
his whole h~eart-bnt we noticed !
day OF two later this sameHpaperc con
Itsined an intination that possibly TIL
reason the price az cotton has noi
been fxed may be duo to the tact
that the cotton growers and cotton
specalators are largely democratic ii
politics.
Il doesn't follow that Il hasn't hap
pened becauseyou haven't seen ii ii
iThs Saturday News, but ~ does tol
loN that 4 sou have seen Il there yot
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