The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-02-14
the future of our flag on the seas
rests with President Wilson.

the future of our flag on the seas
rests with President Wilson.
TX.
He has undertaken, with the cordial
assistance of congress uncommonly
ready for any patriotic sacrifice in the
way of -effacement, both to ar
range the method and the impact of
federal taxation and to prescribe the
extent and distribution of the expendi-
ture to be voted.
/ He has taken upon himself, after
conference with the allies, to finance
to very considerable extent the mill
tary and naval operations Of the gov
ernments abroad with which we are
acting in concert. And the American
people, with confidence in his judg-
ment in the exercise of this novel
function of concentrated power, are
buying the bonds and paying the taxes
for this purpose also.
| XII
! In order to keep the way clear for
the governments necessary borrow
ings from the people, the president is
getting ready to undertake the regula-
ton of the issue of new securities by
every private concern in the market
for money: to say what proposed
loans to corporations shall be per-
mitted and what investments prohibit
ed for the general good.
XII
The very day upon which the con-
gress aWoke to half -dazed realiza-
ton of what the powers it had al
ready granted signified in the matter
of coal alone, the president was re-
ported as proposing to the capital
further war legislation, one of the
specified new grants being govern
ment control of all necessaries and
their production and price"
XIII.
In addition to all the enumerated
undertakings and in addition to many
more of almost equal or minor i'm
portance, Mr.. Wilson, without symp
tom of faltering in the gigantic task,
has taken on himself the duty of for
mulating the ethical principles and po
litical considerations that should de-
termine the hereafter of the interna-
tional structure. for the protection of
weak peoples abroad, the insurance of
relief to the oppressed of every con-
tinent, the safeguarding of democracy
throughout the world He is concern
ing himself with the geography of the
Balkans, with the fate of the African
colonies, with the righting of old
wrongs effected by conquest, with the
rectification of European frontiers and
the reorganization of European ma
tionalities on the basis of racial af-
finity and the justice of voluntary
choice. And SO general is the recog-
milton of the vast new powers now
concentrated in his representative
office that his words on these extra
constitutional subjects command most
respectful attention wherever civiliza-
ton has ears to hear.
Such is the burden on one mortars
shoulders. We are not now examin-
ing the necessity of these successive
steps in the concentration of power or
criticising the presidents way of en-
ploying the powers thus concentrated.
We are not now attempting to measure
them for any purpose except the ex
hibition in bulk of the tremendous
total.
For assistance in the administra-
tion of Brobdingnag the president has
gathered about him a group of per-
sonally devoted or politically subser-
Went men, some of ability, some con-
spicuous for incapacity to the verge
of grotesqueness, but all dominated by
his will and more or less merged in
his individuality. Never for moment
can there be doubts as to the exact
location of the center of concentrated
power.