The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-06-08

"Mr. Wilson and the autocracy he
and all which those who be-
lieve in his doctrines and share his spirit
must be put aside and con-
clusively excluded from any future con
troll.
"The defeat of the present admins
tration and all it means, transcends in
Importance every other question and
all immediate and dominant issues are
bound up with it. Without that defeat
every chance of the right settlement
of the mighty questions before US, so
sorely needed now and not later, will
depart.
! ITO maintain law and order and a
stable government where Justice rnles
and the right of all men, high and low
rich and poor, shall be protected, we
must have a government of the people,
duly chosen by the people, and never
must there be permitted any govern
ment by a single man or by a group of |
men, or by an organized minority.
Many vital economic measures and |
especially protective tariff legislation |
to guard our industries, are impossible |
with a Democratic free trader of so
cialistic proclivities in the White |
House. To accomplish such measures
as these, we must have, as we intend
to have, a Republican president, il
sympathy with a Republican house and
senate.
.'The rise of prices, the high cost of
living which reach daily into every
home, is the most pressing, as it Is the
most difficult and most essential prob
lem which confronts us. Some o. the
sources of this trouble can be reached
| by legislation, although not all, but ev-
! erything that can be effected by law
| should be done at once.
| Profteering, the charging of extor
! tionate and uniustified prices, which is
stupid as well as unlawful, are subject
now to ample punitive laws. These
laws should be enforced, others if nee
essary added and the offenders both
great and small should be pursued end
punished.
"The most essential remedy for high
costs of. living = to keep MP and in
crease production and particularly
should every effort be made to advance
the productivity of the farms.
1.-The phrase government owner
ship means not only that the govern,
ment shall own the railroads but also,
it is to be feared, that those who run
the railroads shall own the govern
ment General government ownership
under our political system would inevi
tably bring about T { mastery of the
fgovernment by thosa who operate the
machinery of transportation or of any
other industries which come into gov
eminent possession. The rights of the
general public, for whom all indus
tries exist, would disappear under this
scheme and nothing would be left to
) the people except the duty of paying
taxes to support the roads.
cover 600 Americans have been muir.
dered in Mexico. Carranza insulted
the American government in every pos
) sible way and still nothing was done
: We fell so low that when an American
was seized by one of the many bands
r Of brigands and held for ransom, all
that the government of the United
r States would do, was to offer to be the
channel for conveying the ransom OF
their citizens to the highwaymen who
had seized them
5 1--WE have watched and waited long
4 enough We need a firm hand at the
helm. The time has come to put ar
end to this Mexican situation, which
is shame to the United States anG
= disgrace to civilization. If we are
to take part in pacifying and helping
the world, let us begin here at home II
Mexico.
E'Let the Mexicans choose as thei
: president some strong and upright MAI
! who is friendly with the United States
/ and determined to establish order ant
> then let the United States give hin
Il a real and cordial support, and 81
Il strengthen and uphold him that he
will be able to exterminate the bandit
and put an end to the unceasing civi
= war.
"When the armistice with German.
was signed the course to be pursue,
was clear. That course was to max
the peace with Germany at once an
then take up for reasonable considera
tion the question of establishing sue
future relations with our associates i
the war as would make for the futur
peace of the world. This Mr. Wilso
prevented. He went to Europe.
"He had apparently only one ain
to be the maker of a league of whc
he should be the head He was de
termined that there should be a leagu
of nations then and there in order t
nullify the powers of the senate give
by the constitution of the Unite
States, he decided to make the leagu
an integral part of the treaty of peac
with Germany. Thus he presented
the senate, and intended to present,
dilemma from which he believed ther
was no escape. In order to have peac
with Germany, he meant to compel til
senate to accept with it the league G
nations.
"The Republicans of the senate, PEI
ceiving the dangers of the league, d.
er termined to resist Mr.. Wilson s d.
IN mand The American people will nevt
Fl, accept that alliance with foreign n;
g. lions proposed by the President. II