Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-12-12

impediments to success and we must
make every adjustment Of law that
will facilitate the full and free use
Of our whole capacity and force as q
fighting unit.
One very embarrassing obstacle
that stands in our way is that we are
at war with Germany, but not with
her allies. l therefore very earnest
ly recommend that the Congress iif-
mediately declare the United States
in a state of war with Austria-Hun-
gary Does it seem strange to you
that this should be the conclusion Of
the argument l have just addressed
to you? 1t Is not. 1t Is in fact the
inevitable logic Of what | have said.
Austria Hungary Is for the time be-
ing not her own mistress, but simply
the vassal of the German government.
We must face the facts as they are
and act upon them without senti-
ment in this stern business. The
government of Austria-Hungary is
not acting upon it's own initiative or
in response to the wishes and feel
ings OF its own peoples, but as the in
strument OF another nation. We must
meet it's force with our own and re-
gard the central powers as but one.
The war can be successfully conduct
ed in no other way. The same logic
would lead also to declaratiop~of
war against Turkey and Bulgaria.
They also are the tools of Germany.
But they are mere tools and do not
yet stand in the direct path Of our
necessary action. We shall go wher-
ever the necessities Of this war carry
US, but it seems to me that we should
go only where immediate and practi-
cal considerations lead us and not
heed any others.
Legislation Against Alien Enemies.
1t will be necessary to extend in
certain particulars the legislation of
the last session with regard to alien
enemies: and also necessary, | be-
lteVe, to create a very definite and
particular control over the entrance
and departure of all persons into and
from the United States
Legislation should be enacted de-
fining as criminal offense every will
fur violation of the Presidential proc
lamations relating to alien enemies
promulgated under Section 4067 of
the Revised Statutes, and providing
appropriate punishments: and wn-
maE, AS We'll IS mou, should be in
ciuNed under the terms OF the acts
placing restraints upon alien enemies
1t Is likely that as time goo.; on.
many alien enemies will be willing
to be fed and housed at the expense
OF the government in the detention
camps, and it will be the purpose of
the legislation l have suggested to
confine offenders among them in
peTitentiaries and other similar insti-
tutions, where they could be made
to work as other criminals do.
Recent experience has convinced
me that the Congress must 20 fur
ther in authorizing the government
to set limits to prices. The law Of
supply and demand, 1 am sorry to
say, has been replaced by the law of
unrestrained selfshness. While we
have eliminated profteering in seve-
raj branches of industry, it still runs
impudently rampant in others. The
farmers, for example, complain, with
great deal Of justice that, while the
regulation of food prices restricts
their incomes, no restraints are plac-
ed upon the prices OF most Of the
things they must themselves pur-
chase; and similar inequities obtain
on all sides.
1t ts imperatively necessary that
the consideration of the full use Of
the water power Of the country and
also the consideration of the system
attic and yet economical development
Of such by the government, should be
Immediately resumed and atfirma-
lively and constructively dealt with
at the earliest possible moment. The
pressing need Of such legislation Is
daily becoming more obvious.
The legislation proposed at the
session with regard to regulated
combinations among our exporters, in
order to provide for our foreign trade
more effective organization and
method Of cooperation, ought by all
means to be completed at this ses-
sion.
Budget Committee Urged.
And hog that tho n, hor ce IL L,