Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1920-12-08

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81 The plain facts, however, arc that
aMhteswe do notshave treaty exclud.
ling japanese Morkers, We have rem.
ttflsmen 'sagreefnent by witch Japan
keeps them from coming over and she
has used great care in living up to
this agreement. Our jingoes want to
forcs Japanfto sign q formal treaty 10
the same effect. : - =
It is interesting. to note that IN the
reearly days the immigratior of japan.
:ese workers was promoted by our cap
sitaltsts and that the fight made against
&c was carried on almost entirely by
organized labor. Business interests
now Db1ect, not to Japanese workers
but to the success. which the Japanese
have had in becoming business men,
and competing with them. II the jap
anese: Lad remained workers only, the
biz interests would be shouting for
removal Of the Immigration ban Is,
they now bog Tor immigration Of Chi
nese coolies. q e.
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zs.,.== THE cHiEE=LEA0UE alssUE.-~,>t
. The league Of nations as an operat-
ing body breaks into print regularly
now, since It is holding sessions at
Geneva The great question before It
seems TO be whether nations which
formerly made up the balance of pow,
or against the entente are to be, admit,
ted to membership. = @''ss5sss~> <
Theoretically, it's hard to imagine
q league Of nations which leaves about
half Of the nations ont In the cold,
but the reason why the admission lof
the central powers constitutes a great
issue is that allied nations do not want
to part with their present grip on
world Affairs, which is .challenged only
by Russia. They do not want to 10.
back toEthe old balance of-power days
when they we're faced byza rival group
Of equal strength ~rsEr n
II the former enemy states are. not
admitted. however, they will, develop
another alliance with all dissatisfied
nations and we will have two, ,cliques
OF nations instead of a league Of ma
tons.
On December Austria was admit
ted to membership In the. League By
the required unanimous vote.
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6RYAN's EXPLANATION,
William jennings Bryan, in the No
veember issue Of his magazine, the Com
moner, reprints an editorial Of his
written in February, 1919. in explains
ton q the DEMOCRATIC defeat. /.
He believes that It was 1904 over
again. ..--s~ -. ~e-.,-- >s~.... :,
He declares that in 1904 Judge PARK.
ers nomination was forced b. wall
street men who really wore more in
terested In President Roosevelt and
wanted to make his majority as large
The reason, Of course" says Mr.,
Bryan, was that Wall street imam
ciers have no politics: their vote ID
entirely matter OF money-as much
80 az the vote OF man who sells his
vote for few dollars, only their price
runs up into big figures and 10 meas
ured By the advantage their business
10 to derive from the control OF the
Goyernmen = So sz
A good many facts about the cam
paign support Mr.. Bryan's charge Of a
double cross by Wall street Democrats.
When the Republicans had framed q
reactionazy platform and had chosen
= candidate for president who had no
progressive record, apd q candidate
Tor vice president whose chief claim
to fame lay- in his suppression Of the
strike q The underpaid policemen. 81.
Boston,6fhe proper tactics for, the
Democfzt ID would have been. to work
out . progressive platform and to
choose q candidate known for his CD
position to smonopolized business.@sS
Instead, the Democratic conyontion
practically repeated the work 81 the
RepubMcan4 IT. candidate took ND
the unpopular burden Of Wilson poli-
cies- And Ito sths popular mind the
issue became that Of ''the only thing
that can be done y tosepunish. tie
Democtats.a 80: ?
The federal bureau Of soils an
nounces the discovery of q new meth
cd Of extracting ,phosphoric acid nrpm
phosphate rock. The old method Has
been to treat the phosphate rock wSfhEl
Iulphnl1c acid. The quantity of aid
ased being zsqdal to the quantity 81
rock The new method consists Of.
gne1tin9 I mixture ok phosphate rock
and and Soke 81 I fuel-fed furnace.
While the .nAW unoceA6 has nak,ha0n