The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-12-20
POLITICAL PATTER
VIDA
PRESIDENTS CONDITION WOR'
RIES LAW MAKERS.
Believes His Message Was Written
by Others and Much Of 1t is Con-
Trajectory.

OenL annual ule5Sd6Sj ~ h"o DNS
apparent to the National Legislators
that the President is unable to at
tend to the public business, and that
his Cabinet is divided as 10 means ana
measures for carrying on the Govern
ment.
The signature of the President,
as he penned the document, is fore
ed, and that of very weak man.
Great sympathy is expressed for him
in his distress, but there is a grow
ing suspicion that Congress is being
deceived as to his real condition. the
impression is general m Washing
ton that he is ailing seriously, and
is confined for exercise to wheel
chair.
In addition to this, it is generally
agreed that the President did not
actually write his annual message.
The style is not his. Only the last
paragraph sounds like the Woodrow
Wilson of better health. Attorney
General Palmer, former Secretary OF
the Treasury McAdoo, Secretary of
Labor Wilson, and perhaps Bernard
Baruch, the Wall Street manipulation,
and Samuel Gompers, president OF
the American Federation of Labor,
are conjectured to have had a hand
in it. Proof positive of its polyglot
composition is found in the Fact that
| the one subject Mr.. Wilson, at his
best, would have commented upon
is the treaty of peace, and that this
is the one subject his Cabinet would
not have cared to touch without con-
sulting him. In many ways the mes
sage is contradictory. .
with the exception of one appeal
to America in the hour of test and
| trial to stand against disorder and
revolution, the message is weak,
said Representative Simeon D. Fess,
of Ohio, chairman of the Republican
Congressional Committee. He men
lions the budget as though he had
| Just discovered the merits of that
proposal, and fails to mention that
the House has already passed the
measure. The only additional idea
he urges is that the buget, as
in the British House of Commons,
shall not be subject to- amendment
from the floor. This is quite char
acteristic, both in his admiration of
! lnoIlIuIlOnD anu hlo AihPd-
thence with opposition.
after having said that unless Con-
gress took up the question Of the
railroads, he would turn them back
to their private owners the first Of
the year, he now, in spite Of the
fact that the House has passed the
/ Esch bill and that the Senate has
taken up the Cummins measure. puts
the entire question off until later
date when he will address Congress
again. The President vigorously de-
nounces thte protective tariff princi-
pie, and yet further over recon-
mends its application to the dye
stuffse He urges that we shall not
legislate so as to be destructive of
business, and in another place sug-
gests that all interstate business be
licensed.
"The restlessness throughout the
country W b C h President
ascribes to the failure to bring
about final peace is not convincing,
since the ratification OF the treaty
by the European powers several
weeks ago has not relieved them in
this respect. One unsettling idea is
that it is unthinkable to return to
pre-war conditions. The bad effect
of this statement is in the apparent
justification of the lawless outbreaks
throughout the country. sounded up
on conditions declared by the radicals
to be impossible"
Many Republican members COM
ment upon the fact that most Of the
message is devoted to the subject Of
labor and that one of the principles
laid down in it, as though it were
new, is that labor Is not a commodity
or article of commerce. No mention
is made, however that Senator Cum
Minis now president pro TEN Of the
Senate, and Republican, is sole
author of this declaration which was
written into the Clayton antitrust
act.
Political Paragraphs.
Just as during the war with Ger
many the Republicans of the House
and Senate backed up the Executive
Administration even more than the
Democrats when it adopted an ag-
gressive attitude, SO now they are
determined to back the Administra-
ton to the limit in any effort to pro-
tect American citizens in Mexico and
bring order out of chaos in that tur-
4 bulent country. Representative Por-
ter, chairman Of the House Commit
tee on Foreign Affairs, and Senator
Lodge. chairman of the Senate Com
mittee on Foreign Relations, are de-
termined that there shall be no
weakened policy pursued, and for
the present are thoroughly in accord
with the ultimatum of Secretary of
State Lansing.
Senator Fall, OF New Mexico, has
it on reliable authority that the Car
Carranza Government in Mexico has
been a Matching ground for l. w. W.,
agitators run out of the United
States, and that he is fomenting their
: work in the hope that they will as
sist in overthrowing the government
in this country. 1t is an easy step
across the Mexican border to the dis
tricts of the Pacific Coast where the
/. w. w. leaders have been putting
out literature and promoting discon-
tent.
Because the Republicans in Con-
gress are in accord with Secretary
Lansing in demanding the immediate
: release of Jenkins, it is no sign that
they are. not disgusted that the situa-
ton has been allowed to go from
bad to worse during period of five
or six years in which Americans
! have been murdered, their rights
disrespected and their property taken
from them without due process OF
law. The policy of ''watchful wait
in" has borne its natural fruit, &C
cording to the legislators-a con-
slant defiance by Carranza until for
ced to showdown. and then a slip
ming ont from under the thumb OF