The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1919-08-15

TRANSPARENT STRATEGY.

Washington, Aug. 12th.- Repub-
lican Publicity Association, through it's
president, Hon. Jonathan Bourne, Jr..
today gave out the following statement
from it's Washington headquarters:
y Panic stricken at the national unrest
looming greater day by day, President
Wilson has thrown up his hands and
appealed to Republican congress to
save the situation. Tho full effects Of
maladmiDistratlon are now being inter-
preted to every citizen in terms of dol
lars and cents We call it the High
Cost Of Living. A more exact charac-
sterization would be the High Cost Of
Wilsonian Democracy.
Many things have contributed to the
economic state in which the country
finds itself. Chief amoung them are
the extremes Of extravagance and wan
ton waste that have marked the convul-
sions Of the Wilson appoirtees in con-
Quoting US through the greatest war in
history. Inefficiency has been predom-
inant among the individuals appointed
and political exigencies the prime con-
sideration in their selection. BY its
.'cost-plus" scheme OF making contracts,
the administration forced prices to ab-
normal heights. BY favoritism to city
wage-earners, it drew labor away from
food production. By imitation of the
currency. the buying power of the dol
lar was reduced. The food situations
lin Europe have taken precedence
in the presidents mind over the
needs Of our own people, with the
result that millions of tons of foodstuffs
have been taken from the mouths of
Americans and given to inhabitants Of
the Old World, much of it to the people
OF the very nations responsible for the
war. The railroads of the country have
been continued under Federal control in
spite of the fact that the deficit is
monthly mounting into the hundreds
Of millions of dollars. AS consequence,
freight rates have been raised and will
be raised again, to be added in turn to
the ultimate cost of food and other
products. All efforts Of the .Republi
cans to have the Democratic congress
adopt sane system of reconstruction
we're rejected by the president. and as q
result demobilizatlon of our armies and
war industries has proceeded under no
preconceived plan to return to peace
basis with least enonomic disturbance.
Intermittent unemployment and shut
ting down Of factories has followed, all
Of which has contributed to the high
cost Of living.
Those and other causes are respon-
slble for the present state Of affairs.
Mr.. Wilson has been the Nations auto
crat, selecting his own heads Of Depart
ments and other minor officials. Dur.
ing the war congress never grudged
him single power that he asked. and
practically every federal activity was
governed by his discretion alone. His
aversion 70 ad ,ioe has been notorious.
and be has sought and been granted pow
ers never before possessed but by the
most absolute monarchs. His seven
monthsin ! foreign capital indicates how
lightly he regarded the responsibility
for American welfare that rested upon
his shoulders. During that time the
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