Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1920-06-30

, must be lsne aad the supple
, secused st once. regardless Q
coat. Sc Asndrsds el million
we're paid In excessive price
and wages, and other hundred
OF millions In experiments whicl
ahouid have been cond a. CITE.
years before. That this was di
rectly the fault Of the Prssidss
and bis colleagues 10 indisput
able. At the very outbreak o
the var. two and . BALI years
bsfors our entry into it. Geners
Wood in the Army and Rear
Admiral Fisk and indeed tha
whole General Stat in the Navy,
strongly urged the need of i'm.
mediate and effective prepara.
tion fer the participation In the
war which anybody with 4 head
larger than a peanut should have
seen vas likely to be forced up.
on US. But the President went
about declaring that the country
had been nisinfoY med and that
the Administration had not been
negleetful Of defense. and re.
placed N energetic nan OF af,
fairs in the War Department
with Il nothing pacifst; and
his Secretary of the Navy delib.
ers,eiy nisipformed the Senate
concerning the warnings Of the
General Stat, and ordered pre-.
parations to be lessened rather
than increased. Had those prud-
ent warnings and urgirgs been
needed and acted upon, instead
OF being met With refusal and
insult. the country would have
been saved billions Of dollars.
La spite Of all that reckless
orgy OF wasteful expenditure,
and is appalling legacy Of debt.
taxes and ina,tion and what not,
Congress has in fac; within the
year effected vast economies and
retrepchmen.s. Perhaps that
Is what sriiis the President and
prevokes his outburst oi spleen
against Congress Ha ard his
colleagues bavS been sharply
checked In their extrayagance.
Their demand for appropriations
~ continue the wartime debauch
have been denied or pruned
down TO the extent OF two and a
half billions or course. that
hurts. II is no longer possible
10 publish y. taxpayers expense
scores OF costly periodicals for
(aetional propagand!st purposes,
10 give profitable contracts to
favored friends. or 10 maintain
An army Of highly paid but do
nothing piaceholders. So the
Pr, -.ident AYERS tha. Cong nss
has taken no important action 70
reduce the cost Of living: when
he knows that 1t has reduced
he Governments cost Ut living |
n = single year by an amour,
NJ uch larger than our entire na |
.ional debt before the war.
Equally disingeneous is. his |
ling at Congress for not more
promptly solving the railroad
jroblem. Ths, problem was
:hiery his own creation. Iiwas
10 who. with his Adamson act.
,tartsd the process Of 30 enor.
increasing the cost Of
operation 40 10 threaten the
roads With bankruptcy. 1t was
40. or his Heir Apparent, who
rolled up deficits Of hundreds OF
millions. and demoratixed and
,retty nearly scrspped the
-oads during the pey.sd OF gov
,rnment control. ltwas he who
ID United that he did not know
low to get out Of the meas in
Shich he had involved himself,
md asked Congress 70 under,
AXE the job. 1t was his own
Congress tha, lodged the job.
Il was he, finally, who obstinate
y delayed to let the new Con
yress undertake the work, until
10 was absolutely com PEELED to
10 30. fhus having himself
the problem, aud having
limself prevented prompt action
lpoa II, he attempts TO throw
,laue fer the whole business
pom the shoulders of othcrs.
1t will not work. Tho Aneri.
an people are not fools. They
nov what AutoArat. with . lick