The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1919-04-24

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WASHINGTON, D. C.-Since Pres1-
dent Wilson has persuaded the peace
conference to write a guaranty of the
Monroe Doctrine into the constitution
of the league of nations, his admiring
hackers in Washington claim that the
Borah-Reed-Lodge opposition has been
knocked into a cooked hat. Even
Senator Lenroot must smile obviously
at the spectacle of the president tell
ing the European and Asiatic diplo-
mats that any discrimination against
the doctrine will be looked upon in
America as a threat of militarism and
imperialism. For that has been the
Lenroot argument against the presi-
dents whole plan.
Republican members Of congress
have read with deep concern the re-
suits Of straw votes taken by news
papers in all parts of the country,
showing huge majorities in favor Of
Mr.: Wilson's league. At the same
time, they feel that the amendments
thus far made, since they threatened
to prevent ratification Of the treaty,
can safely be claimed by them to be
Eriumphs. over the administration.
When congress meets, a few senators
will argue against any treaty that
may be made In Paris, but a far great
er number will content themselves
with saying: "See how much I have
improved it,"
PARIS FOOLS GoMPERs.
Samuel Gompers landed in New
York the other day, rejoicing in the
fact that the commission on interna-
tional labor legislation, created by the
peace conference and headed by him
self, had agreed upon the universal
eight-hour day and a worldwide stand
ard minimum wage to solve the prob
lem of coolie competition with white
labor. Ways and means for bringing
about this seemingly impossible i'm
provement in the standard Of living
of the swarming millions of India,
China, Japan and Malaysia were to
be gradually determined through the
permanent bureau and the, annual
meetings of the labor conference. The
first conference will be held in Wash
ington in October, with four men rep
resenting each country in the league
of nations. They will be chosen by
the governments, although one in each
delegation will be an employer, one a
trade union official, and two will be
chosen from the general public.
The day after his arrival Mr..
Gompers was astonished to learn that
the Paris conference had virtually
nullified the standard wage principle
by adopting an amendment offered by
Barnes, the conservative British labor
delegate, to the effect that any inter-
national agreement as to standard
minimum wages should be drawn with
due regard to "those countries in
which climatic conditions, the imper-
feet development of industrial organ
i~zation, or other special, circumstances,
make Industrial conditions substan-
TALLY different" 4
OF course MI. Gompers cabled q
vigorous protest against this >surren-
der; Of principle, but it appeared to
be too late. .j.La:.. &
AN EDITORS DILEMMA.
When William Allen White went to
Europe some months ago, to be named
by the president as n of the. two
| American delegates to the proposed.
conference Of Russian factions at
Prinkipo, the Kansas editor had been
| introducing to liberal reviewers in the
East a new novel from his pen, in
which he fayed the cruelty and hypoc-
risy of the anti-labor sentiment among,
small-city business mel in the Middle
| West. His hero was tortured and
| finally shot down by q machine gun In
| the hands of a LAW and Order.
league mob for tho crime Of having
called a strike.
Friends of Editor White in the ma
tional capital are specializing on what
he will write in his next book. His
press correspondence Is marked by
| such statements as 3"The shadow Of
Lenine falls darker and darker across
the peace conference" and that the
world must choose now between order
" specialization Of the industries and
d%isorderly bolshevism.
WOMEN FOR INSTRUMENTATION.
The remarks delivered In the federal
court at Fargo by Judge Amidon last
year, rebuking q certain German
clergyman who had opposed the Amer.
~icanization Of his parishioners, have
been widely quoted throughout the
country, particularly. In the educa.
tional journals. His demand for !
real Americanization has now been
developed into q definite program By
the League Of Women Voters, which
is starting a big educational campaign
from its headquarters here.
But how the League Of Women
Voters proposes to enable all the
children Of immigrants to secure
needed schooling, up to the age Of II
years. IL . question a family income
which several millions Of immigrants
Twill very naturally ask, and which tho