The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1920-12-16

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| The plain facts, however, are that
while we do not have treaty exc(ud-
| ing Japanese workers, we have a gen.
| tlemen's agreement by which Japan
| keeps them from coming over and she
| has used great care in living up to
| this agreement. Our jingoes want to
force Japan to sign formal treaty to
the same effect.
| It is interesting to note that in the
early days the immigration of Japan
csc workers was promoted by our cap
| italists and that the fight made against
! it was carried on almost entirely by
| organized labor. Business interests
now object, not to Japanese workers
| but to the success which the Japanese
have had in becoming business men,
and competing with them. If the JAP
anese Lad remained workers only, the
big interests would be shouting for
removal of the immigration ban. as
they now beg for immigration Of Chi
nese coolies.
THE CHIEF LEAGUE ISSUE.
The league of nations as an operat'
ing body breaks into print regularly
now, since it is holding sessions. at
Geneva. The great question before it
| seems to be whether nations which
formerly made up the balance Of pow
| er against the entente are to be admit
ted to membership.
Theoretically, it is hard to imagine
a league of nations which leaves about
! half Of the nations out in the cold,
! but the reason why the admission OF
| the central powers constitutes a great
| issue is that allied nations do not want
to- part with their present grip on
world affairs, which is challenged only
| by Russia. They do not want to go
| back to the old balance-of-power days
when they were faced by rival group
of equal strength.
If the former enemy states are not
admitted, however, they will develop
another alliance with all dissatisfied
nations and we will have two cliques
of nations instead of a league of ma
lions.
ted to membership in the league by
the required unanimous vote.
BRYAN'S EXPLANATION.
William Jennings Bryan, in the No
vember issue of his magazine, the Com
moner, reprints an editorial of his
| written in February, 1919, in explana-
ton of the Democratic defeat.
He believes that it was 1904 over
| again.
He declares that in 1904 Judge Park
er's nomination was forced by Wall
street men who really were more in
terested in President Roosevelt and
wanted to make his majority as large
| as possible.
1.-THE reason, of course" says Mr..
Bryan, was that Wall street finan-
ciers have no politics; their vote is
entirely matter of <money-as much
so as the vote of a man who sells his
| vote for few dollars, only their price
runs up into. big figures and is meas
ured by the advantage their business
is to derive from the control Of the
| government"
A good many facts about the cam.
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double-cross by Wall street Democrats.
When the Republicans had framed a
reactionary platform and had chosen
a candidate for president who had no
progressive record, and candidate
for vice president whose chief claim
| to fame lay in his suppression of the
strike of the underpaid policemen OF
Boston, the proper tactics for the
Democrats would have been to work
out a progressive platform and to
choose candidate known for his op-
position to monopolized business.
Instead, the Democratic convention
practically repeated the work of the
Republicans. It's candidate took up
the unpopular burden of Wilson poll
cies. And to the popular mind the
issue became that of "the only thing
that can be done is to punish the
Democrats"
The federal bureau of soils an
nounces the discovery of new meth
| cd of extracting phosphoric acid from
| phosphate rock. The old method has
been to treat the phosphate rock with
sulphuric acid. The quantity of acid
used being equal to the quantity OF
rock. The new method consists OF
smelling a mixture Of phosphate rock.
sand and coke in a fuel-fed furnace.
While the new process has not been
tried on a commercial scale, the es.
Inmates made on the work done in ex.
periments would indicate that the new
process would be considerably cheaper
than the old. A higher amount of
phosphoric acid can be obtained. BY
the old method commercial acid phos-
phate made from 80 per cent rock
would contain only 16 per cent OF phos-
phoric acid. The new method, which
is said to extract twice as much OF
the phosphoric acid, gives more con-
centrated product, and consequently
lower freight bills in terms of actual