The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-07-11

ference odtLsu6S 1ntereStS-PreSl-
dents Assurance Gives Little Con-
fdence-Farmers' Victory in North
Dakota Stirs the Na,ion-C Congress-
nam haily Reports On Balkan States
-z-anOther Bill 10 Regulate Meat
Trust Introduced-Palmer's Drag
net fer Radicals Catches Civil War
eteraE.
Washington, D. C.-The peace
treaty is signed. The war is official-
y at an end. 1t is now a question
with us of whether the senate is go
ing to agree to the final document.
Cur situation is peculiar in that in
almost no other important country is
The administration independent OF
the legislative branch and, therefore.
able to 60 ahead without regard for
ia. .aw-making body. Other peace
delegates were directly responsible to
-r respective legislatures.
Injections seem to point to q rati-
auon OF the league Of nations as
worked out and the peace treaty BY
the senate in spite OF seemingly
.-.cug opposition developed. Much
. Il - Z n,
lore Fundamentally it was the ex-
preston 81 big interests fears that
certain groups of foreign capitalists
-.c getting an unfair chance at the
sacIs. The peace conference attend
81. to these grievances, and now the
orators such as Knox and Lodge
end the controlled press are gradu-
ally shifting to a favorable position.
Senator'S VINO oppose the treaty on
principles a-e too few to carry the
senate.
The league Of nations goes into
elect when the different states have
formally ratified 1t, just as our own
Constitution became the law after
ratification by the allied states Of
America.
WILSON APPROVES ALL
President Wilson's complete praise
Of the treaty does not awaken the
trust which such q communication
from him at one time would have
done. He may be coming back with
& feeling Of personal triumph, but he
does not bring with him what all the
--oglessives hoped for when he. set
out for Europe. He brings q peaca
fashioned on the old diplomacy, and
-e leaves behind at least 10 wars now
going on and more wars in tho~Glak-
ing.
Peace IS less possible in the cen
Italy and even in France than it
Haley and even in France than it
was at the signing Of the al7nistice.
That the inclusion OF the last coun-
try is not an eNaggeration is, shown
h- the fact that the government is
planning to keep the soldiers in the
army until after election because
THAR votes would be hostile. The
whole Of France is covered with
strikes against conditions rather than
for wage changes. In all these
things there is a limit to what flesh
and blood VIII stand.
Wilson. as representing the most
prosperous nation and the country
which could really dictate except that
cur imPerialists opposed, might have
called off blockades, rushed food and
supplies to Europe, and declared fol-
determination and so ended q
number Of wars. Instead he has
dickered with other in secret diplom-
acy for mere political arrangements
for territory and for spheres Of influ-
ence.
Tc his work pleases any in Ameri-
ca it will be the reactiOnaries. :
generation ago his work might have
pleased many of the people, but nov
the people are too serious about the
matter of war and peace to be side
tracked. They are not delighted tt
learn that the peace treaty follows
the IA points around which they
were rallied for the war in the spe
cial Wilsonian sense.
EAST WATCHES NORTH DAKOTA
The success of the North Dakota
farmers in the referendum election
has attracted great interest. A
usual the metropolitan press IN the
East picked up the first election re-
turns from the cities and announced
that the farmers had lost. The trlltl
will probably be presented in and ou
of the way corner or not at all. :
At first the Nonpartisan league
movement attracted only the more
progressive labor and farmer ele
monts here. Now a great many o,
the more conservatives are thorough
" alarmed at the growth of radica
thought in the East They declar
that the West does not know wha
radicaEsn is. and they look to tn
League as a kind of safety valve
These people, the big interests VII
contributed 10 beat the tanners AM
the politicians who have the scar
Of their careers in the independen
farmers-labor movement, are study
ing the returns in detail.
FARMERS IN BALKANS
Congressman NJ Clyde Kelly o
western Pennsylvania, who has Jus
returned to this country from thre
months Journey through centra! an
southeastern Europe, is strongly 0
the orinion that revolutionary chang
es viii make small headwav in tn
Balkan countries.
The reason, according to Mr.. Kelly
is found in the fact that the peasant
of Greece, Turkey and the territof
comprised in the new Jugo-Sla
state, are for the most part them