The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1920-04-22


strength, and he looms strong in sever
al state primaries which are to come.
The money question, as usual, en-
ters into the political situation. Sen
ator BOrah charges the managers of
General Wood and Governor Lowden
with using unwarranted sums. Deni-
ais come from both candidates, with
an expression of willingness to have
their expenditures probed. Inasmuch
as the legitimate expenses of such
campaigns require large funds, it is
difficult to see how any candidate can
make much of a showing without
Them Former Secretary McAdoo re-
fleets this condition when he states
that he has no fund, therefore is not
candidate.
In Germany, the coalition cabinet
headed by Herr Mueller promises to
remain in power until the elections
early in June. Concessions to the la
Dor element had much to do with
sitting the radical crisis in the Ruhr
basin. Spasmodic hostilities in that
and adjacent areas had not been COM
pletely suppressed, but the outbreaks
had taken on a guerrilla aspect, with
the red forces disintegrating under
lack of supplies, poor discipline and
inefficient leadership. Considerable
of a bluff to affect enforcement of the
terms of the treaty of Versailles seems
evident in the Ruhr and contiguous
situations. If the Ebert government
had been permitted to send troops
into the neutral zone, it would have
suspended one of the important pro-
visions of. the treaty. The weakening
of this one provision could have been
made the basis for assaults upon 9TH
err portions of the covenant with
gradual and possibly complete defeat
of the unfulfilled terms.
Settlement of the German crisis is
not absolute. fractional disturbances
are occurring, and are likely to con-
tinue, but that an ultimate condition
resembling order will be brought about
is not unlikely. The effect which the
troubles have had on foreign credits.
so necessary to Germany, and the con-
sequent withholding of food supplies,
raw materials, etc., has had a profound
influence on the nation as whole.
One of the most disastrous conse-
quences following the Kapp-Luettwitz
revolution and later troubles has been
the effect upon the morale Of Ger
man workmen. They are reported as
lettering on their jobs, discontinued
and strongly imbued with the feeling
of i'll treatment. Production is in an
unhealthy state; precisely what the
red leaders desire for the further
ance of their designs.
Emir Feisel, who lately proclaimed
himself king of Syria, looms as an adj
junct in a class with D'Annunzio, Mus
tapha Kemal and other trouble max
ers. Self-determination for Syria is
not only his fetish, but he is for the
complete independence of the coun-
try; wishes both French and British
troops sent home at once, and all
zones of influence by other nations
abolished. His activities and the
working out of his designs are being
watched by the Jews of the world, as
a complete fulfllment of his program
would render impossible the establish
ment of the proposed Zion nation.
Mustapha Renal, nationalist leader in
Turkey, continues his campaign to stir
up feeling against Christians in Asia
Minor. In a recent proclamation he
deposes the sultan as chief of the Mos
lem world, and raises call to arms
throughout Islam. Fortunately his in
f1uence is not general as yet, but there
is no denying the fact that he is an
important factor, with a strong fol-
lowing in Turkish politics and grow
ing ability to create antagonism to the
allies and all Christians.
Ludwig c. A. K. Martens, self-styled
soviet envoy to the United States ap-
pears to be the next prominent candi-
date for deportation. Martens con-
tended in an investigation held by
the senate committee on foreign
relations that the bolshevik gov
eminent had not interfered in the
internal affairs of the United States.
AT the same time the state department
had secured and has now made pub
lie series Of soviet dispatches incit-
ing American bolshevists to violence
and the overthrow of the present form
Of the government of the United
States. The dispatches were found on
the person of soviet courier captured
at Riga, en- route to this country. The
department of justice announces per-
feet case against Martens.