Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-05-25

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sion of the Council of National De-
fense, the car efficiency committee of
the American Railway association, pro-
posal of a food dictatorship and plans
for fixing maximum and minimum
prices. The outbursts of the senators
showed they were speaking in large
measure in behalf of the business con-
Germs of their respective localities who,
they asserted, had had no chance to
get government contracts.
Trading in Futures Stopped.
Food supply matters in America
moved rapidly toward q crisis last
week. Actuated presumably by the
investigations of the government into
gambling in foodstuffs, and by the tre-
mendous rise in the price of wheat,
the Chicago board of trade and the
grain exchanges of several other mid
die West cities put stop to trading
in futures. Wheat and flour prices
fell promptly and decisively. The gov
ernment gathered the necessary data
for prosecution of the wheat gamblers,
and then got after the butter and egg
men. The government also came to
the conclusion that the exorbitant
prices of wheat and flour were due in
part to the gigantic wheat buying Op-
erations of Great Britain and France,
and asked them to dispose of their i'm
mense holdings of grain for future de-
livery. They seem willing to agree
to this if they are assured that they
will receive the wheat they need from
the coming crop.
All in a position to know scout the
idea that there will be an insufficiency
of food in this country. The problem
is to regulate the distribution and the
exports.
HoIIweg Won't Talk of Terms.
The imperial rulers of Germany are
not yet holding out an available perch
upon which the dove of peace might
alight. Stubbornly resisting the prod
ding of both the pan-Germans and the
Socialists, the chancellor, Doctor Holl-
veg, on Tuesday told the reichstag
and the world that the time was not
| fitting for a statement of Germany's
| war aims or peace terms. The mill
| tary situation of the central powers
he declared, was satisfactory, and he
| intimated that they were ready to grant
| liberal terms to Russia, if that strug
| Cling nation desired to get out of the
| conflict. But he asserted there was nC
reason to believe England and France
would at present listen to any PROPOSE
tiOns from Germany, and to make an!
would be construed by them as an evi
dence of weakening. On the whole
the chancellor's speech was bold ant
defiant, and his position does not seen
! to be weakened, despite the continued
of these attacks last week was mad
by Georg Ledebour, Socialist leader
who warned the reichstag that event
must happen in Germany as they hav
ir Russia and that the people mus
soon introduce a republic in Germany
Though such sentiments are support
ed by many, it is likely the mass o
opinion in the empire is better repre-
sented by Herr Roesicke, president o
the German Farmers union, who Dc
nounced the Socialist aims as siniste
and anti-national, and as tending to
prolongation of the war since, as h
declared, the entente based thei
hopes on German disunion.
| NU;1eor, uo,., al.
continued, "wants no peace with tn
Hohenzollerns, but the monarchy is to
deeply rooted in German hearts fC
the malignity of the entente or {
= President Wilson to be capable of d
stroying it,
Developments in Russia.
, Official advices to the state depar
ment during the week showed the Ge
: man governments efforts to disrul
: the provisional government of Russ
r are unabated and are meeting vii
: some success. The share in the go
: ernment offered to the council of wor
: mems and soldiers delegates was
= first refused and later accepted
t conditions that were rejected by Il
d government. The council, neverth
It less, stands firm for continuance
n the war and issued a manifesto to Il
o soldiers pleading with them to go
# fighting for revolutionary Russia al
to give up all thought of separa
l. peace. 1t told them it would lead the
e toward peace by another way-by ca
l. ing for revolution of the workm
d and peasants of Germany and Austr
t. Hungary.
y Among the actual results last we