The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-08-15
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TRANSPARENT STRATEGY


lican publicity association, thru its
president, Hon. Jonathan Bourne, Jr.,
today gave out the following state
ment from its Washington headquar-
tiers:
"Panicstriken at the national unrest
looming greater day by day, President
Wilson has thrown up his hands and
appealed to a republican congress to
save the situation. The full effects of
his maladministration are now being
interpreted to every citizen in terms
of dollars and cents. We call it the
High Cost of Living. A more exact
characterization would be the high
cost of Wilsonian Democracy.
"Many things have contributed to
the economic state in which the coun-
try finds itself. Chief among them
are the extremes of extravaganza and
wanton waste that have marked the
commissions of the Wilson appointees
in conducting us thru the greatest
war III HlSCOIy. IutlIiCleHCy Ids pSSh
predominant among the individuals
appointed, and political exigencies the
prime consideration in their selection.
By its 'cost-plus' scheme of making
contracts the administration forced
prices to abnormal heights. By fav-
criticism to city wage-earners, it drew
labor away from food production. By
initiation of the currency, the buying
power of the dollar was reduced. The
food situations in 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 ma
lions 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
quence, freight rates have been raised
and will be raised again, to be added
in turn to the ultimate costs of food
and other products. All efforts of
the republicans to have the democratic
congress adopt sane system of re-
construction were rejected by the pres
h
of our armies and war industries has
proceeded under no preconceived plan
to return to peace basis with least
economic disturbance. Intermittent
unemployment and shutting down of
factories has followed, all of which
has contributed to the high cost of
living.
"Those and other causes are respon-
sible for the present state of affairs.
Mr.. Wilson has been the nations
autocrat, selecting his own heads of
departments and other minor officials.
During the war congress never
gIudged him a single power that he
asked, and practically every federal
activity was governed by his discre-
ton alone. His aversion to advice
has been notorious, and he has sought
and been granted powers never be-
fore possessed but by the most abso-
lutte monarchs. His seven months abb
sence in a foreign capital indicates
how lightly he regarded the response
bility for American welfare that rest
ed upon his shoulders. During that
time the executive branch was left
solely in charge of political incompe-
tents whom he had clothed with au-
thority.
like a tidal wave the conditions
that Mr.. Wilson inaugurated and fos-
tered have rolled up and now threaten
to engulf the United States in eco
nomic chaos. Like the Kaiser who
deserted his armies and fled the coun-
try when he saw that all was lost.
Mr.. Wilson throws up his hands and
turns to the republicans in congress
to save the country from this intri-
cate situation" To man, the mem
bers of the house have responded
abandoned plans for a recess pending
debate on the peace treaty in the SEN
ate, and have settled down to retrieve
if possible the disaster that would
otherwise surely descend upon the
country when Mr.. Wilson's false eco
nomic structure topples to the
ground"