The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1919-04-10

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Tariff will again divide the
American people as a great political
issue. We ire all protectionists in
some degree. The Underwood tariff
act probably represents pretty nearly
the degree of protection that can be
maintained If u new merchant ma
rine is to come home with goods in
stead Of with rock ballast. Some
amendments must be made, of course,
to insure American production in GER
tain lines in which we have felt our
dependence-such as the dye indus
try. But in general we must now look
at the needs Of the countries with
whom we propose to trade quite as
much as at our own industrial needs"
The Republicans in the house are
divided on this question of putting off
indefinitely the revision of tariff
schedules. Chairman Fordney Of the
ways and means committee, a staunch
protectionist, wants the fight begun at
once. His associates are mostly COM
mitted to a waiting policy.
ASKS CONGRESSMAN FOR PLANS.
Frank Mondell of Wyoming, the
new floor leader of the Republicans,
has sent out a letter to all Republican
members, asking their advice as to
what shall be the party program for
the special session. ~
This is a new departure. When
James r. Mann was floor leader he
did not consult his associates. They
might call him up on the telephone, or
visit his office, and discover what
course he proposed taking upon a def
mite issue, but unless they did so they
were left in the dark until he came
forward to speak in the house.
TAvENNER VISITS CAPITOL.
Clyde Tavenner, former newspaper
men and later a member of congress
from the Rock Island Gill; district,
whose speeches on "The Worldwide
War Trust" disclosed the p~rofteering
of the Krupps, Bethlehem Steel, Cam
bria Steel; Midvale Steel and Carnegie
Steel corporations long before the
United States entered the war, has
been visiting friends about the CAPT.
toll building the past few days. Taven-
ner waged war on the private manu-
facture of armor plate, guns and NUM-
lions for u government, and tried
to get congress to make this industry
a government monopoly. His chief
antagonistic before committees was
General Crozier, who always defended
the policy of letting the Carnegies and
Schwabs do the work for Uncle Sam
at a generous profit. When the war
came along, Tavenner was swept out
OF congress-, thanks to the National
Security league and other political or
CARNATIONS promoted by the people
he had attacked.
LABOR CONGRESSMAN BACK.
Among the progressive Democrats
who have come back into the house
after a two-year retirement is John
]. Casey of Wi%lkesbarre, Pa. Casey is
a plumber by trade, and has a constit-
uency of coal miners who speak all the
languages of Europe. He is an advo.
cate Of social insurance and eight-hour
laws. The coal companies gave the
miners a choice, in the fall of 1916, be-
tween voting for Casey's opponent and
keeping the mines running. Enough
of them were frightened to make his
defeat a fact. Last fall they were not
alarmed, since the war had given
them more confidence in their own i'm
portance, and the war labor board
stood ready to protect them against
lockout.
RUSSIA OPENS N. Y. OFFICE.
The state department has not yet
sought to interfere with the new rep
resentative of the Russian soviet gov
eminent, who has opened extensive
Offices in New York for the purpose OF
re-establishing trade relations with
American business firms. AS this
agent Of soviet Russia states that he
ts authorized to spend 100000, 900
gold In the purchase Of American man
ufactured goods, many OF which are
now shut out Of England, France and
Italy by the embargoes fixed by those
countries, his suggestion has resulted
In 9 food of offers from big manufac-
turing concerns, banks and trading
interests Of all kinds.
AIR MAIL PLANS.
Airplane mail rates are coming down
within a few weeks to s cents for de-
livery between New York and Wash
ington, according to current predic-
tons In aircraft circles. When this
service was started, a year ago, the
rate was rs cents. Commercial ven
lures In airplance transportation Of
package freight are now being pro-
NOTED, and q syndicate has been form
ed TO build and operate q line of dir
gible ballons clear ACROSS the cont.
nent. Az yet, these airships have not
been constructed. Their promoters
want to seucre contracts to. carry mail
and express, which would be dropped
% way stations Into nets carried by
local airplanes. The planes would
likewise swoop above the moving dir
igibles and drop local mail and pack
ages down Into the net spread byS ths,
crew 0f the balloon. Insthis way tue
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