The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1919-12-12
EDITORIAL COMMENT

1--WE have to admit that some gov
ernments are smarter than other gov
ernments. Under an agreement be-
tween the Federal Government and
the British Royal Commission for the
disposal of last years Cuban sugar
crop. more than one-half of the suger
that comes through the refineries
under the jurisdiction of the Sugar
Equalization Board is shipped to
England. while thousands of families
in this country cannot buy a pound
of sugar anywhere. The League of
Nations wouldn't remedy this, but a
reasonable amount of forward look
ing commonsense would have averted
the trouble. "-Philadel Press.
According to a statement pub
lished in the Philadelphia Leger, the
movement to cleanse the American
Federation of Labor of the faint of
radical socialism, no matter under
what special nomenclature the radical
propagandism may be operating. has
been started in that city. The open
ing incident of the Red drive doesn't
loom so large, but there is a strong
intimation from A. +. and l.. sources
that the expulsion of four rods from
the local branch of the International
Association of Machinists is but a
starter to a clean-out program that
has been definitely decided upon. -
Baltimore American.
$50
"Once again CarranZa assumes the
role of the staggering bully spelling
for a fight. insulting his neighbors,
who with difficulty are restraining
their impulses to administer to him
the sound thrashing he deserves. II
he is permitted to succeed in this
scheme, to what lengths will he not
20 in heaping indignities upon Ameri-
cans? Not content with injuring
American individuals and corpora
tions, he has insulted the United
States Government in the person oil
one of its officials. The failure to
bring Carranza to account for pre-
vious offenses is having its logica
consequences. Never before was
American prestige so low in Mexico.
Post.
With the Congress in regular SEES
sion, the first duty, we think, will be
TO decla,s the existence of state OF
peace between the United States and
Germany. This can best be done by
the adoption of joint resolution to
that effect. If the Lodge resolution
which was introduced in concurrent
form az the last secsi'n is by an
amendment made joint resolution
it should be promptly passed by botf
houses and sent to the President fol-
his signature. If the President veto
es that resolution, he will doubtless
be willing to take the consequence
Certainly he cannot shift the respon'
sibility and he ought not to try t.
shirk IL. II the bankers and business
men who pretend to be Indifferent &c
the terms of the treaty and concern
ed only with the discontinuance OF
state of war are sincere, they will
demonstrate the sincerity of theil
position by supporting a joint reso'
luton of peace. If they fail to dc
that, the plain people of the land
will become more suspicious than ev'
err over the flood of propaganda fror
Wall street. Boston Transcript.
"Not even the best friends of the
new labor party can pretend that II
possesses a great and unifying cause
II may develop in the heat of battle
but at the outset the party is wholly
artificial alliance of antipathetic dis
contents. The inspiration comes not
at all from the rank and file, but from
group of radical leaders who have
sat at the feet of the British Labor
party with a squint at Petrograd)
and resolved that America is ripe fol-
similar organization. Neither
union labor nor the old time farmers
organizations have ready sympathy
nth tha ,a.y Y,nvannanf II muSt ra.