The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-01-24
PEACE OUTLOOK
MUCH BRIGHTER
Heney is to Close Investigation Of
Beef and Pork Packers in Time
to Make His Gubernatorial Cam
paign IN California.
IDEAL CONDITIONS AT DODGE.
Senator Borah Vigorously Champions
Government Development of Coal,
Oil and Water Power Resources Of
the Country.

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Washington was skeptical Of any i'm
mediate chance Of peace negotiations.
Now there is q distinct feeling that
the chance is at hand. President Will
sons statement Of the peace terms Of
the United States was taken by MEM
bers Of the House and Senate to mean
that the war had passed from the
stage Of military aggressiveness to
diplomatic activity, which in turn
must lead to actual negotiation of
peace. The sentence, referring to
Germany, 1T is necessary that we
should know whom her spokesmen
speak for when they speak to us,
whether for the reichstag majority or
for the military party and the men
whose creed is imperial domination
seemed to point the road along
which the next move will be made.
Every new statement Of war aims
or, possible terms of peace seems to
reduce public interest in the congress
sional investigations into the ways in
which the war funds have been spent.
The Senate Committees that have
been looking into the shipbuilding
contracts, the wool contracts, \ the
shoe contracts and a dozen, odds and
ends Of the furnishing Of munitions
and equipment, are digging up facts
as to the generosity of the Govern
ment in it's dealings with big business
concerns that in ordinary times would
create nationwide sensation. But
today they are mere routine. Even
among the senator's and members OF
the House there is only passing in
terest in this waste of money, these
bad bargains, this lack of careful buy
ing. For example, the telegram from
E. j. Hagenbarth, president Of the
National association Of Wool Grow
ers, that there was an abundance OF
wool in the country for the making
Of I'LL army u1sf forms at. the time that
the war department was buying shod-
dy, received only passing notice.
On the eve of the vote on the suff-
rage amendment, both the National
Woman's party and the American Ma
tional Woman Suffrage association
camps were confident of a sweeping
victory. Cabinet members, prominent
members of the Council of National
Defense and members of the big Gov
ernment commissions joined in the
final "drive" of publicity for the
amendment. Frances ]. Heney, spec
ial counsel for the Federal Trade
commission in the investigation Of
the packing trust, for example, said:
ssI heartily favor the immediate pas
sage Of the Susan B. Anthony amend
ment." It is a foregone con-
clusion that the next republican
convention will declare in favor OF
the Federal amendment, and that the
democratic national convention will
be compelled to either lead or follow
suit. Hence, as matter of expedi-
ency as well as matter Of principle,
both political parties should join
hands in passing the amendment at
the present time.
Heney, by the way, will close his
investigation Of the beef and pork
packers and their high financeering
method soon enough to return to Cal
ifornia to run for the nominations
for governor this summer. Under
the California law, anyone may try
for all Of the parties nomination for
an office. Several Of the congress-
men now serving were chosen on the
republican, democratic and progress
sive tickets. It was all matter Of
getting the right support in the pri-
mary. Heney will try for these three
nominations, Of which the progress
sives and the democratic seem to be
assured TO him. He will have the ac-
tice. Or rather the violent pposi-
ton Of the reactionaries in the three
parties. There may be majority Of
this element in the republican party
in California when Heney tries them
out. The state administration just
now ID rent ia twain by difference
Of principle between the Heney- Kent
element of progressives and Governor
Stephens Los Angeles group Of an
ti-labor- union progressives.
The probe Of the beef trust, as Tar
as It has gone, has revealed one thing,
which seriously worries the conser-
vative New Englanders. They discov-;
er-that the gradual wiping out Of the
livestock industry ii New England,
through the underselling by the pack
IND trust Of all local concerns and
local meat products, has left them at
the mercy Of the packers and of the
Western stock growers provided the
Western stock growers should ever
ret voice "a the setting of prices.
The investiga ations have brought out
ne faet that there i one chief reason
4cr he llislpp arance a cattle, sheep
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