Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1920-03-24
OUR WASHINGTON ETTER

mark: Nothing that has been done
since 1912 has stirred more misunder-
standing among the millions of un-
skilled laborers of foreign birth in this
country than the Sensational raiding
of aliens for deportation. To
many foreign born the action appeared
another form of alien batting, ignor-
ing the fact that in most instances the
leading agitators and brains of the
unrest were Americans-a fact in part
recognized in a recent report of the At
torney general when he stated that the
Federal statutes are exceedingly linn
tied insofar as they affect persons of
American citizenship engaged in radi-
cal agitation
This Inter-Racial council is under
stood to be Du Pont property, and
it's purpose to be the conserving of a
cheap labor supply for big manu-
facturers on the one hand and the up
building of Du Pont political ma
chine on the other. At Du Points
right hand, as associate manager d.
rector, is Miss Frances Kellor, who
organized the famous Golden Spe--
cial," or millionairesses' political
train, which went across the country
for Hughes In 1916. It was a devas-
tating success. from Hughes view.
point.
SOCIETY LEADERS PUZZLED.
The national capital has just passed
through a siege of anti-Bolshevist
parlor meetings and club lectures con-
Quoted by the social patrician element
which seeks the favor Of the state de.
partment. Every one whose daughter
has married a count whose husband
is willing to become minister or am
bassador at foreign court has been
listening to Major Washburn, Captain
Hugh Martin OF Mississippi and Cap
tain Egbert-returned to tell the aw-
full truth about the destruction of
home and property rights and the
"crackling of the fiber Of civilization"
in Soviet Russia. .... 49, .- e..
In the midst of the excitement the
biggest of American exporting and
trading interests that seek the trade
Of China and Siberia, and that own the
Asia magazine, bring out an elaborate
number Of that publication devoted
exclusively to clarifying the Soviet re-
Gtme and its works. Charles M.
0chwak and Standard Oh and the
Pacific Mail Steamship company are
prominent among these red terror
promoters.
Several of the ladies, after three
lectures and an hour with this maya
zine, have taken train for winter re-
sorts to seek mental balance.
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oRoUTH AID ENDORSED.
The demand of Congressman Baer
AID Sinclair to have congress appro.
pirate funds to aid drouth-stricken
farmers has been indorsed by the
northern division of the American Red
Cross.
Sinclair's bill providing drouth re-
lief was pushed aside for political rea.
sons. The committee which handled
the bill cut short the hearing on relief
for the starving at home to listen to
appeals for aid in Armenia. Austria
and Poland. The Riddick bill, which
practically confines drouth aid to Mon
tana, has received some attention.
The Red Cross opinion that some
thing important must be done has
been gathered from study Of the
drouth areas in North and South Da-
kota. It's investigators find many
farm families, as well as the stock,
in starving condition. They lack
horses, feed and seed to undertake a
new crop and in the meantime the
family has no income to live on. in
No' tn Dakota, whera the League log.
islature empowered counties to make
feed and seed loans,> several counties
have reached the constitutional limit
In otherwise good farming sections
little timely aid would enable these
unfortunate farmers to continue: In
the work for which they are best fit
ted.
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