Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-01-22

WE are asked to support Senator
Howard Sutherland's presidential as.
pirations. We'd love to do so-but he
voted against the treaty of peace and
the league of nations.
1T is not likely that Mr.. BRYAN will
be candidate for President this wear.
but il is certain that he will have
something TO say as to who the nom-
inees shall be. And we think that
this is very good thing for the coun-
try.
THE government made a good start
in shipping undesirable aliens out of
this country, but there seems to be a
halt in the proceedings. IT cannot
be that there are not enough of the
rasca's on hand for a ship load, for
hundreds of them are in Jail. Put
EN- out faster. say we.
VAST quantities of liquor have
been shipped to Cuba and other
islands contiguous to the United
States, with the hope that the bibulous
will flock to the nearest point and
drink up the supply. 1t is not likely
that the thirst will be as keen, how
ever, as when there was a saloon on
every corner.
THE Presidential booms of Cen
eral Wood and General Pershing are
being pushed quite vigorously, with
the former making more noise and ap-
parently more progress. That both
are good soldiers may be taken for
granted, for they have proved it, But
the sort of presidential timber that
is in them is yet to be discovered.
A good many people will think twice
before supporting a military man for
the presidency. The world has but
recently finished a terrible war to
break UP a military autocracy that
threatened to dominate all nations
Is it wise to start the same thing in
the United States
ALTHOUGH both houses of Con-
gress are safely Republican, neither
seems able to transact public bust
ness. Measures of the utmost i'm
portance are hopeleSSly tangled up,
and nobody seems able to get a bill
properly passed. In the House there
seems TO be no leader of even me-
diocre ability on the majority side,
and the Senate is even worse Of. for
the majority Z re is tied TO the inef-
ficient leader ship OF that II. -.
antedluvian, Senator Lodge
The whole country is suffering
indeed, the whole world is affected
because of the pitiful lack of states
manship in the present Congress.
THE Senate continues to wranglc
over the treaty of peace and the league
OF nations, and apparently makes no
progress toward a solution of oues-
tions that should never have been
raised in the first place but which be-
ing raised, ought to have been adjust
ed months ago. 1t is generally be-
lieved that large majority of Sena-
tors are in favor of ratifying, but the
Republican majority seems utterly I'M
able to think for itself and with singu
lar fatuity allows itself to be led BY the
nose by Senator Lodge. Add to this
aggregation the little group of wilful
Democrats who personally hate Presi-
dent Wilson-and you have a body of
do-nothings that breaks all records.
THE liquor interests are still try
ing to upset constitutional prohibit
ton, and the poor little State of Rhode
Island has lent its name TO the whis-
Key people so that the question as to
the legality of the amcnd.nen. way
be taken to the Supreme Court. 1t is
futile, for the Supreme Court of the
United States has decided that
practically all the prohibition legis
latlon that has been enacted is alb
solutely sound, and we do not fear
the result of the present effort.
The liquor people cannot get it into
their heads that the amendment that
mas been ratified by as of the 4S
States is a genuine expression of the
wishes of the people of this country.
HERES no relief from the high
cost of living in sight so far. On the
contrary, many articles are still 60
ing up and up, and nothing is as
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