The Washington herald., 1918-10-24

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Baseball fans of the city will be
interested in the Nevada Senatorial
race.
Walter Johnson's papa-in-law, Con-
gresham Roberts, Is candidate ior
the place against present Senator
Henderson, and will, OF course, have
the Republican machine behind him
with all vigor
Anne Martin is Observation-Disclosures
and essaying the tremendous task OF
defeating one or the other of the Of
Tending males. Upon the class of her
vote will depend in some measure
, whether Walter has his wife's folks
in the city for six years or whether
she will have to return to Nevada
when she wishes to visit them. II
Miss Martin draws most potently
from the Henderson forces the Rob
| erts forces viii be elated and likely
to see their favorite chase away with
the victory. II Miss Martin, on the
other hand, draws from the Roberts
forces-something democratic leaders
here are constrained to think she VIII
do-she will likely succeed in helping
Mr.. Henderson make more perma-
nent arrangements to remain here
than he has hitherto been warranted
| in making.
So fans of this district. while you
are looking over the election returns
on the 9Th of November, and for
few mornings thereafter, don't forget
to look out Nevada way and see
whether the smoke king is to have
joy or gloom in his home for few
days after that.
The mere process OF exchanging
ideas with the enemy is distressing
folks Of the nation TO an extreme
length, we think.
There are phases OF the interna-
tional situation in which not even
some OF the wise men on the hill are
at all versed, and they and the folks
of the country would do well until all
phases OF our extremely delicate sit
uation are considered by the Presl-
dent himself.
The President finds the task not at
all unlike he has expected 1t TO be
He has been studying for months on
the very problems he is meeting now
and with the fullest Information
from every land in the world to sup
pIement his own ineXhaustible intor-
nation. 1t seems inconceivable to
I
knowledge and occasional and some
times woefully distorted information
should know more than he knows
about the situation, and so 1t would
be best il we all would withhold
| Judgment on what the President does
until some time after he has done II.
The same war that compels the Re-
publican members Of the House and
| Senate to remain at mark time
must come to an end and give the
foods of partisanship an opportunity
| to become lOosened once more. Ihe
second invitation was not needed
from what We can hear, to make
them vent their spite upon the pa
tient President for all Of the forced
delay they have had.
But it would be both the better
mart OF discretion and patriotism to
remain silent until the critical hours
are mast. More strength can he gath
cred for our cause by following this
| course than by allowing our tongues
too free play.
The current issue Of the National
| Pepublican. the national organ OF the
DoIiticaI party after which II IS
named leaves no room for doubt as
to where II stands on the third or the
fourteen peace bases suggested by
! President Wilson.
For that paper insists that the pro-
vision mentioned means free trade
| and Il proceeds to say, with much
Yehemence:
THE removal Of economic barriers
and an equality of trade relations
among the nations" is interpreted by
free traders everywhere as meaning
free trade Yet the man who cant Tor
get his Responsibilities the leader
OF a great political party y'-Uses these
very words and declares for this very
thing in one of his addresses re-stat-
ing the war aims that we are sup
posed to be fighting for This would
mean that German goods are to be
permitted to come into the country to
compete with our own Industries and
to come in free of duty. 1t means
exactly that, If it means anythinG.
Not a single word Of dissent from this
has been uttered in public by any
Democratic member of Congress. On
the contrary 1t is in exact accord
with all their previous utterances en-
the subject of the tariff And a vote
| for any one of them means a vote for
that very thing. To be consistent the
man who is opposed to this should
vote for the Republican candidate for
| Congress and for the Republican can
didate for senator.
"One of the conditions imposed upon
Russia by triumphant Germany was
the removal of all economic bal Tiers.
The exploitation of the Russian mar
kets by German traders, and the con-
| sequent repression of Russian indus
try was one of the causes Of the bit
terness between Germany and Russia
that eventuated in war. Free trade
is perhaps the most fruitful cause of
war. II enables one nation to exploit
the markets of another without re-
straint, thereby promoting interna-
tional i'll will If the American peo-
pie were compelled. by a treaty of
peace, to surrender their markets TO
invasion by alien productive interests
armed with the weapon OF a cheap
ness attained by the cneapening Of
the producer. 1t Is not unlikely that
within a doZel years we would be
ready to go to war. u necessary to
secure our economic independence
and restore the prosperity of the
American people"
THE OBSERVER.
TIDI DNU CIIEyyIY CAVC