The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-07-25
THE WEEK
The Fight on Williams
Another Treaty Foe
Remedies for Unrest
Fuckers Offer Al,ai

| Remedies for Unrest
| Fuckers Offer Aliai
If John Shelton Williams had keen
content to be the usual comptroller
of currency, if he could have sat
quietly alongside of huge mass of
fostering, respectable crime, his reap
pointment would not now be ques-
toned in the United States Senate.
But Williams had moral scruples and
respect for his oath Of office.
He found that about 1,2OO of the
1000 odd national banks were prac-
ticing unlawful usury as well as that
of the lawful kind, and he told the
people about. He told US how $94.5O
of every 500 of our business was
transacted by means of credit instru-
ments and not by money, this new
currency Of ours being entirely con-
trolled by the money trust. He found
that the evil of making loans to bank
directors contrary to law was wide
spread, and he began fight again.
1t. The worst case which he discov-
cred through the failure of stock
brokerage. firm in New York City,
that of the Riggs National bank of
Washington, D. c., he prosecuted in
the courts.
Now a lobby headed by this bank
and appealing to many senators is
exposing his ''unftness" for office.
That other. delegates than those
OF China failed to share Wilson's ap-
probation OF the peace treaty is in
dieated by General SHUTS, delegate
for South Africa, who Signed under
protest. The man who became FAM
Gus as the author of the first draft
OF the league of nations explains his
protest as follows:
Il signed the treaty not because
consider it satisfactory document.
but because it is inperatively neces-
sary to close the war; because the
world needs peace above everything
else. Nothing would be more fatal
dan the continuance Of the state of
suspense between war and peace Six
months since the armistice conditions
are perhaps as upsetting and ruinous
to Europe as four years of war.
say this not in criticism Of the work
done, but rather because | feel that
in the treaty we have not yet achieved
the real peace to which our peoples
are looking and because | feel that
the real work of peacemaking will
not begin until after the treaty is
signed.
We promised new life. and victory
Tor the great human ideals for wEiSn
peoples shed their blood and gave
their treasure. No hint Of fulfllment
OF their aspirations towards a new
international order and fairer and
better world is written IN this treaty
and it will not be written in any
treaty"
Elevent prominent ministers of the
gospel IN New York City have made
a splendid beginning toward remoy-
ing that growing impression that ev-
en- churchmen are becoming tied up
with the forces of lawless privilege.
Their voices have not been heard as
much as they should have been on
what these II call violence recently
employed in the name of patriotism"
and allowed to go unpublished by
the authorities and even praised by
leaders in government and in the
press"
dies:
Il. That all men and women of
good Will set themselves to influence
public opinion through every avail
able medium against lawless meas
ures by whomsoever they may be en-
ployed.
z. That all men be maintained
in their right to a fair impartial
trial and that the people set them
selves against counsels of hate.
y. Since, in the judgment of the
attorney general of the United
States, existing laws against criminal
terrorism are adequate and since
free discussion is essential for the
exposure of economic and political
errors, that the attempt be aban-
doned to coerce minority opinion so
long as it does not promote disorder,
or to defeat social change by repres-
aive legislation"
These ministers, among them the
president of the Union Theological
seminary and the dean of the Cathe-
drai of st. oJhn, here suggest topics
for some splendid sermons by local
clergy here in the Northwest, where
un-American views of the kind com.
planned of have been common.
Representative Sinclair of North
Dakota laughs to scorn the assertion
OF the packers and Gamers that the
farmers were protected by keeping
TIC millions of dollars worth of sur
plus army foods off the market. 1t