Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1919-06-18

Washington, D. Crank Wander.
lips resignation from the presidency
Of the greatest bank in the greatest
banking center In the world has set
the financial experts to looking more
anxiously than ever before at the Eu-
ropean financial crisis, over which
Lloyd George and Clemenceau are now
desperately quarreling.
Vanderlip came home from Europe
with his warning that the whole up
per layer OF European civilization may
collapse and fall in, due to the bank.
ruptcy of France and Italy, and the
serious condition of British finances.
He told the bankers in New York that
the credit of America must immed1'
abroad, rather than the governments.
II Europe was to: be saved from a
"conaagration." The outcome OF. his
warnings and pleadings was that he
was forced out Of the presidency OF
the National City bank.
Since his dismissal from his high
post In Wall street, Vanderlip has de-
livered several speeches, and in each
he has followed up and emphasized
his first message. He says that gov.
eminent loans to European govern.
ments will not save Europe from col
lapse, but that II American credit, ma.
chinery, materials and fuel are quickly
supplied to European manufacturers
and builders, there is still a chance
that what happened to imperial Ger
many as the result of the war will
not happen to monarchist Italy and
business-ruled France as the result of
bankruptcy and industrial paralysis
and hunger.
johnson Boom hatched.
Hiram Johnson's friends announce 8
conference of state leaders at San
Francisco to organize the fight fol
his nomination for the presidency next
year by the Republican national con
vention.
This move has been made after 9
careful survey of the field of non
reactionary candidates. It is gener
ally felt that while the liberal Gle
ment would have more implicit faith
In Senator La Toilette than in any
other American as the candidate Of 9
party sincerely DESTROYS of enlightened
and constructive work in the national
administration, the Wisconsin pro
gressive could not be nominated. The
kept press has poisoned the public
mind against him, and it will take
several years for the effects OF the
poison to disappear.
Kenyon is proposing series Of la
Dor measures which are of liberia
sort, but he is not enough Of a recog
nized leader. Cummins is out of the
race. Norris is in the same class with
Kenyon-he is content merely. to dis
agree with the standpatters on a few
measures; he will never declare ope1
war upon them and their organization
Soldier Straw Vote.
Recently transport arrived from
France, bearing the 313th regiment
which. was recruited from four east
ern states. A poll of the presidential
choices of the men and officers wa,
taken during the homeward voyage
and among the Republican candidates
Hiram Johnson stood out with 696, a,
compared with 1855 for Lodge, PAP TO-
General Leonard Wood, and 70 TO-
General Pershing. Democratic vote
were divided-Wilson, 626, Clark 297
McAdoo 1874, Baker so. Among tn
other candidates were Debs 40, rep
resenting the Socialists; Gompers 6S
representing labor insurgency, AM
Bryan As, representing the Prohibi
ZIONIST element.
Senator Johnson was greatly please
with this showing of his Republican
strength among returning soldier
from the eastern states and with hi
having beaten President Wilson b.
70 votes. The call for his "hat-throv
ing party" followed Immediately.
Meat Sold to Russians.
Secretary of War Baker has author
feed the sale of $25,OOO,00O worth c
the meat supply not needed by tn
army to the Russian Cooperative 81
cieties' purchasing committee. Arg,
ment now wakes warm In officis
Washington as to whether this de-
means that Baker is the first offlcit
to try to get American food into sovie
Russia, or whether he is trying to fu
nish big supply Of provisions to til
reactionary armies that are fightiu
to crush out the soviet republic.
Baker himself declared before
house committee that the purchaser
are doing business both in anti-sovi,
/ territory and in soviet territory, an
7 that probably some of the meat woul
get into soviet Russia through the c.
Operative Societies, whose membe
ship before the war was nearly 81
!, 100000. There are other official
!. however, who point out that Hoov,
q has had five shiploads Of food waltz
0 in the Baltic for the capture Of Petr
g grad by the reactionaries, and tn
l.. even though Petrograd's people star,
the allied policy requires that the fot
blockade against soviet Russia shs
remain absolute to the end.
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