Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1920-07-21


hot yet HI slght and even II all tao
lions get together Oh national candi
dates this will not necessarily near
the kind OF success which third party
boosters have IN mind.
Success implies getting the votes
OF all citizens not really represented
in or protected by old party machinea
Outside OF Nonparttsan league terri
tory the farmers, while mostly dis,
gasted with the treatment they havs
received, are not organized tor polt
tteal action.
On the other hand. It looks as Il
the Democrats, In choosing Cox. have
picked a man with a record which
will appeal to tho leaders Of the Amer
lean Federation OF Labor and give
basis for their following the "Nonpar
tisan policy" OF picking what appears
to be the better Of the political ma
chine offerings. The danger that Cox
may have purchased" his nomination
with this record and secret agree
ments will not be given proper con.
s1deratlou.
Between the appeal Of the politi
clans to give the old method one more
trial and the more advanced laborites
who will swing to Debs, a third party
would have to be most favored by new
developments to get far.
Perhaps realization of the farmer
and labor position In states outside
of Nonpartisan league territory Is the
chief reason why the League did not
send delegates and rather decided to
continue to conflne its efforts to state
action
If the third party can be organized,
however, and make big showing this
year it will be in splendid position
for victory by 1924. In the past great
movements have sprung out of seem.
ingly great difficulties and it is not
impossible that the faith of the third
party boosters may be similarly pro.
ductive of great results.
RAIL OWNERS SCARED
Railroad officials appear to be
alarmed lest the public will not toll.
crate their inefficiency much longer.
About two months ago q general an
peal was made to the interstate CON-
MERGE commission to take firm hand
in the matter and more particularly to
order priority shipments. Congress,
however, did not give the commission
power to enforce it's orders and the
different railroads have not been obey
ing them. Hence a hurried confer
ence of officials of the more important
roads in New York the other day to
see II the roads could not agree to
obey the commission.
The assembled magnates appointed
nine wise men to act as a committee
charged with the responsibility of
preserving private ownership At the
conclusion of the secret session of
railway executives Thomas De Witt
Cuyler, chairman of the association,
issued public statement in which he
said:
1T was clearly the purpose of con-
gress, as expressed in tho transport
tation act of 1920, that private own
ership and operation of the railroads
should continue to be the established
policy in this country, but your COM
mittce is firmly of the belief that in
the final analysis the test of private
ownership which the public will ap-
ply will BIO the ability of the carriers
to render efficient service to the cOun-
try as a whole and under all condi-
tiOns."
ALLIES ASK ARMISTlCE
Having to appeal to the despised
Bolsheviki for mercy for Poland must
be painful to allied governments, in
Guiding our own. Press writer's are
cndeavoring to explain away some of
their chagrin by charging on the Po-
llsh madness of attempting to seize
territory rs to 80 per cent Russian
and about to 4 per cent Polish. But
1t would seem that the Poles can be
blamed chiefly for allowing them
selves to be used as cat'spaws.
The first Polish drive was insti-
tuted to- embarrass the Russian gov.
eminent with more war and to d.
vert it from fighting Denikine's ex-
petition in the south, and from Per-
STA, India and Kolchak in the east.
England and France sent thousands
OF officers and we have group of so
or more engaged there under the ca
moufiage Of military observers. !"
Among allied contributions was our
use of the surplus of the Government
Grain corporation to provide -four for
the Polish forces. Secretary of War
Baker turned over to them a great
deal Of our military stores in Europe.
1t has been, therefore, primarily an
allied war built on Polish nationalist
sentiment
Tho policy of force and imperial
Ism adopted at the peace council has
thus brought this immediate failure
with vast suffering for the people of
Poland and of Russia and lines Eu-
rope up for another major war un.
less some agency that can limit tho
War-making power of present govern
ments arises to prevent it. Germany.
denied raw materials from usual
sources and saddled with indemnities.
naturally turns to Russia for raw ma.
terials and a market for her products.
and Russia, cut off from the rest of