The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-11-14
WASHINGTON
NEWSlCULLINCS
PRESIDENT AT GRIPS WITH
IMPERIALISTS. STAND
PATTERS EXPOSED.

Washington, D. C. AS this
letter is being written President
Wilson is at grips with what i'm.
perialist sentinmen there may h
among the members of the en-
tente governments. The conser,
vatives do not, apparently, ap
prove of his fundamental pro
gram for the terms of peace. Ad-
ministration officials are pledged
to silence as to just what is tran
spring behind those locked
doors at Varseilles, even in the
slight bits of information they
receive, but through the stout
est locks there filters a web Of
hints and circumstances which
makes it evident that at least
three of his points are cha,-
lenged. These are the demand
that there shall be no economic
or commercial alliances among
any group of nations, except
such as may be employed by the
League of Nations to discipline
an offender; the demand that
freedom of the seas shall be-
come a reality; and, finally, the
demand that the whole question
of colonies shall be taken up and
settled on a basis of the rights
of the colonial populations as
we'll as the rights of the civil
lied nations which have held
them. , =
If the rumors now flying
about Washington are true the
opponents of these three points
in the Wilson program have sur
prised the president by insisting
upon an immediate settlement
of the peace terms, instead Of
first establishing drastic condi-
tons for an almistice and then
coming to the council table to
consider the whole worlds in
terest in each of the peace terms
. The whole meaning of democ-
racy henceforth-hangs on this
conference at Versailles. Presi-
dent Wilson is using the cable
constantly, making a tremend-
Gus fight. He has one vote I
four. ,a-
Imperialism In The Senate.
Former Senator Hansbroua
of North Dakota, who for y
years was a member of the "stal
wart" Republican crowd in the
American house of, lords and
then reformed, after being be-
trayed by Theodore Roosevelt,
addressed a sharp letter to his
old friend, Senator Lodge, the
other day. y II y
ITO accuse any Of my old col
leagues" said Hansbrough,
with lending themselves to a
scheme deliberately intended to,
counteract the great democratic,
movement now going on in the
world might appear as a grA-
tuitous and ungracious act on
my part. Still, / can not resist
the conclusion that this is what
the minority campaign really
amounts to. 80 AZ
II am glad to know that your
discreet leadership of the senate
minority has served to discredit
the Roosevelt telegram to you
denouncing the IA points in:
their entirety.
Killed BY The Harvester Trust.
Hanbrough learned the graft
tude Of the reactionary politi-
cal crowd of whom for so many
years he had been a submissive
agent, when he tried to get Pres
ident Roosevelt to prosecute the
harvester trust. This trust was
the particular enemy of North
Dakota. It was good political
sense, the senator concluded, to
fight the harvester combine.
Going to Roosevelt with an
elaborate showing of facts as to
the crimes Of the harvester
trust promoters, he demanded
that these promoters be prose
cuted under federal law. Accord
ing to Hansbrough's account of
the interview, Roosevelt pound
ed the desk with his fist and de-
clared that IF these are the
facts, these men ought to be in
the penitentiary.'
Roosevelt called up Attorney
General Bonaparte on the tele
phone, and had him come to th(
White House. Then the enthus
iastic chief magistrate ordered
|Bonaparte to begin prosecutioa
Of the heads Of the harvester