Republican farmer., 1918-12-06

country have been the moving spirits
 in the systematic economies by which
 our people have assisted to supply the suffering peoples of the world and
 armies upon every front with food and everything else that we had that might serve the common cause. The
 details of such story can never be
 fully written, but we carry them at
 our hearts and thank God that we can
 say that we are the kinsmen of such. And now, we are sure of the great triumph for every sacrifice was
 made. It has come; come in its com-
 pleteness and with the pride and in-
 spiration of these days of achievement quick within us we turn to the tasks of peace again-a peace secure against the violence of irresponsible mon archs and ambitious military coteries, and made ready for new order, for new foundations of justice and fair : dealing.
 we are about to give peace, not . only four ourselves but for the other : peoples of the world as well, so far as ? they will suffer us to serve them. It : is international justice that we seek. / not domestic safety merely. Our : thoughts have dwelt of late upon Eu- rope, upon Asia, upon the near and the far east, very little upon the acts { of peace and accommodation that wait to be performed at our own doors. While we are adjusting our re- : lations with the rest of the world is
 it not of capital importance that we l should clear away all grounds of mis-
 understanding with our immediate neighbors and give proof of friend Q ships we really feel?
 = q hope that the members of the 4 Senate will permit me to speak once more of the unratifed treaty of :, friendship with the republic of Co., . lombia. I very earnestly urge upon
 them an early and favorable action upon that vital matter.
 'I believe that they will feel, with '. ~ me, that the stage of affairs is now = set for such action as will be not only = just but generous and in the spirit of 'I7 the new age upon which we have so u happily entered.
 . So far as our domestic affairs are A concerned, the problem of our return r. to peace is a problem of economic and |, industrial readtustment. That prob- IA lem is less serious for us than it may . turn out to be for the nations which - have suffered the disarrangements and
 the losses of the war longer than we
 Our people, moreover, do not wait tC Il be coached and led. They know their II own business, are quick and resource Il ful at every readjustment, definite in |, purpose and self-reliant in action. Any u leading strings we might seek to put y them in would speedily become hope. Il lessly tangled because they would pay y no attention to them and go theil
 own way. All that we can do as theil
 legislative and executive servants is l. to mediate the process of change here Le there and elsewhere as we may. 't have heard much counsel as to the 10 plans that should be formed and per. u sonally conducted to a happy con. u summation, but from no quarter have ~ l seen any general scheme of recon o struction" emerge which I thought i y likely we could force our spirited Il: business men and self-relant laborer ,! to accept with due pliancy and obe II dience.
 I Need of American Aid.
 While the war lasted we set ul ,e many agencies by which to direct tn, NV industries of the country in the ser
 vices it was necessary for them tt
 render, by which to make sure of al ae abundant supply of the material
 + needed, by which to check undertak "a ings that could for the time be dis "a pensed with and stimulate those tha ~, were most serviceable in war, b. ,o which to gain for the purchasing de ,,1 partments of the government a certail at control over the prices of essentia ,l, articles and materials by which to re ar strain trade with alien enemies, mak 1v the most of the available shipping an n systematize financial transactions wv both public and private, so that ther ry would be no unnecessary conflict o
 confusion-by which, in short, to pu he every material energy of the countr ty in harness to draw the common loa at and make of us one team in the ac III complishment of a great task Bu ts the moment we knew the armistic i'd to have been signed we took the har ne ness off. Raw materials upon whic nd the government had kept it's hand fo ad fear there should not be enough fo ed the industries that supplied tn be armies have been released and pr ng into the general market again. Grea ne industrial plants whose whole outpI ry and machinery had been taken owe he for the uses of the government hay he heen set free +o raturn to +ba ,,eoe : ne which they were put before the wa
 It has not been possible to remove TO- readily or so quickly the control ( lty foodstuffs and of shipping because tt ay world has still to be fed from ou we raneries and the ships are still neet of ed to send sunn1ies to our men owe, he seas and to brine inc men hack as fa 5fi- as the disturbed conditions on tf [ed other side of the water permit; bl put even there restraints are being rela7 er- ed as much as possible and more an oal more as the weeks go by.
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 .t cies in existence in this country whic le of labor and of industry, as the W, ell. r,,o,1+ K rTs .s,,,i,,i.t,.o+i,,e 1 HIS the Fuel Administration have know
 |" since the labors became thorough
 us systematized; and they have not bet
 oA isolated agencies; they have bet
 directed by men who represented u the permanent departments of the Go ice, ernment and so have been the centr 1ey of unified and cooperative action. ga has been the policy of the Executiv ave therefore, since the armistice was a ag- sured (which is in effect conlple ing submission of the enemy), to put tl
 at knowledge of these bodies at the di be- posal of the business men of u