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

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|goisms are actually controlled by for.
|etgn interests.
is The plain facts, however, are that
while we do not have a treaty exclud.
ing japanese workers, We have a gem.
tlemen's agreement by which Japan
Keeps them from coming over and she
has used great care in living up to
this agreement. Our jingoes want to
'1orces japan to sign formal treaty to
the same effect.
1t Is interesting to note that in the
early days the immigration of Japan.
:ese workers was promoted by our cap
:italists and that the fight made against
1T was carried on almost entirely by
organized labor. Business interests
now object, not to japanese workers
put to the success which the Japanese
have had in becoming business men.
and competing with them. If the JAP
anese Lad remained workers only, the
big interests would be shouting for
removal of the immigration ban as.
they now beg for immigration of Chi
nese coolies.
THE cHlEE-LEAGUE ISSUE.
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
er against the entente are to be admit.
ted to membership.
Theoretically, it is hard to imagine
a league of nations which leaves about
half OF the nations out in the cold,
but the: reason why the admission of
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 70
back toGthe old balance ot-power days
when they were faced by rival group
Of equal strength.
II the former enemy states are not
admitted, however, they will develop
another alliance with all dissatisfied
nations and we will have two cliuues
OF nations instead of a league of ma
lions.
On December Austria was admit
ted to membership in the. league by:
the required unanimous vote.
6RYAN's EXPLANATION.
William Jennings Bryan, in the No
Vember issue Of his magazine, the Com
moner, reprints an editorial of his
written in February, 1919, in explana,
ton Of the Democratic defeat.
He believes that it was 1904 over
again.
He declares that in 1904 Judge Park
er's nomination was forced by Wall
street men who really were more in
terested in. President Roosevelt and
wanted to make his majority as large
a. possible.
THE reason, of course" says Mr..
Bryan, was that Wall street fnan.
ciers have no politics; their vote n
entirely a matter Of money-as much
so as the vote Of a man who sells his
vote for few dollars, only their price
runs up into big figures and is meas
ured BY the advantage their business
is to derive from the control Of the
government -~-... -.
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 a
reacttonary platform and had chosen
9 candidate for president who had no
progressive record, apd a candidate
Tor vice president whose chief claim
to fame Lay in his suppression of the
strike Of the underpaid policemen. OF
Boston. the proper tactics for the
Democrats would have been to work
out progressive platform and to
choose a candidate known for his Cd
position to monopolized business
Instead, the Democratic convention
practically repeated the work Of the
Repubhcans. Its candidate took ND
the unpopular burden OF Wilson poll
cies., And ITO the popular mind the
issue became that Of the only thing
that can be done is to punish the
Democratic 49, .
The federal bureau Of soils m
nounces the discovery of new meth
cd Of extracting phosphoric acid from
phosphate rock. The old method has
been to treat the phosphate rock With
sulphuric acid. The quantity of acid
used being equal to the quantity OF
rock. The new method. consists Of
smelling 1 mixture of phosphate rock,
sand and coke IN a fuelfed furnace.
While the nsw process has not been
tried on q commercial scale, the d.
made on the work done In ex-
perfments would Indicate that the new
process wpo1ds be considerlkH cheaper
th1nthe FDld.. A higher amount Of
acid can be obtained. BY
the old method commercial acid phos-
phate made from - per cent rock
would contain only 16 per cent Of phos-
phoric 1eid. The new method, which
= saidEto extract twice ~ much of
the pholphoric acid, gives a more oon-
oentratd product and consequently
loNer freight bill. in t1ems Of actual
value.
II practical results bear out the az
peeinon1A claims, It win mean q rev.
. s,st,S3 a Is ''nnsrs''l fertilizer manu-
Like other commercial discoveries
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