The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-01-31
SNAP SHOTS

The story which comes across the
Atlantic from the presidential press
agents to the effect that it is expect
ed to equalize conditions of labor in
India, China, Japan and the United
States at the peace table leaves one
wondering whether the orientals are
going to be furnished dress suits or
the American wage Garner is going to
be uniformed in breeche clout here
after
Presumably there will be local op-
position in Mississippi and all the
other states dominated absolutely by
Mr.. Wilson's party in the matter of
racial equality of rights even after
the world has been saved for de-
mocracy with small d."
1t is stated that when President
Wilson returns from his European
tour he will travel about the United
States making speeches. Why not
take over one of those captured Yep
pelins and make a White House out
of it,,
Every few days some cabinet Off
Ger follows Bryan's example and says
he can't live on his salary, but a cou-
pie of million men are still manag
ing to worry along in Uncle Sans
service at thirty dollars a month.
A subscriber asks: "What gives
democratic congress more pleasure
than voting a billion dollars out of the
public treasury? Why, voting out
two billion dollars, you boob.
Not only has the Kaiser been
pushed off the front page, but he
seems likely to wind up in the Lost"
column on the want ad page.
Its often the fellow who has made
the biggest botch of managing the af-
fairs of his own household who has
the most eloquent schemes for recon-
structing the rest Of the universe, and
sometimes that principle seems to OPP
crate on an even larger scale.
Some one proposes that the Kaiser
be put in a cage and exhibited. He
would be as interesting a curiosity as
the democratic campaign orators who
destroyed the high cost of living in
1912 and kept us out of war in 1916.
1t is suggested by Paris correspon-
dents that if Col. Houses indisposition
makes it impossible for him to act at
the peace table, ex-president Taft and
Senator Root may be chosen to take
his place. Is it really supposed that
this would fill the gap?
It's mistake to say that the rates
are always raised under government
ownership. By conducting your tele-
phone correspondence between 1890
and 4:30 a. M, and doing your trav-
cling on February Goth you can save
money under the revised rates.
There is a republican vacancy on
the federal reserve board, and as soon
as the administration can locate an
other republican who always votes the
democratic ticket it will be filled.
A lot of people who are in on the
drive for the Fourteen points could
not tell you whether or not sixteen to
one is one of them.
Secretary Burleson evidently sup
poses he is boosting the cause of pub
lie ownership by his acquisition of the
telephone and telegraph lines, but the
truth is that if postal rates keep on
increasing and postal service keepsNon
degenerating there will be a big pop
ular movement pretty soon for the
private operation of the postal service.
Let it not be for gotten that the ex-.
listing democratic tariff law causes the
importation into this country under
low tariff or no tariff of enough for
eign made and foreign grown stuff to
keep five million pairs of hands busy
if it were produced at home.