Willmar tribune., 1920-02-25

ment to private individuals ever delib.
erately made by an elective body in
modern times. The value Of the fuel
and the farm fertilizer which it takes
from the people to give to few IN
greater than the entire cost Of the late
war to the United States.
While the measure is ON It's face a
leasing scheme, in effect, It giveB the
Standard Oil company, the Midwest
Oil company, the Southern Pacific and
the other oil, coal and mineral groups
the right to exploit the entire mineral
deposits in the public lands, with only
nominal payment to the federal
treasury.
Senators Nelson and kellogg of
Minnesota, Jones and Poindexter of
Washington, Sterling of South Dako-
ia, Walsh and Myers of Montana and
Smoot and King of Utah are among
the most pleased at this triumph Of
political force over public interests.
RELIEF BILL MOVES.
Congressman Baer and Sinclair of
North Dakota decided to vote against
the $50,000,000 appropriation for; the
relief" of various regions of central
Europe and of Armenia unless they
could be assured that the money was
to be used in actually feeding the
hungry.
Disclosure of the fact that the orig
inal scheme for giving $3.50, 0,OO0, 900 to
starving Europe" was actually meant
to offer military rations to Polish
armies particularly, in order to tncite
further war against Russia, stopped
that plan in the house ways and means
committee.
Representative Baer is convinced
that amendments should be put into
the smaller appropriation item which
will make the world safe from hypo-
crisy."
He does not believe that further war
in Europe is going to relieve America
of new demands for gifts Of food and
money, but on the contrary will vastly
increase the number of mendicant
small nations demanding a price for
making faces at the Russian bear.
PALMER's STOCK FALLS.
Collapse seems to have overtaken
the Palmer presidential boom since
the Palmer raids and the Palmer sedi.
tion bills came under the scrutiny OF
the public. The coal miners and rail.
road men have maintained from the
outset that there was no political fu:
ture for the attorney general who mis-
used the food control law to threaten
the United Mine Workers leaders with
prison sentences. In any event HIS
chance OF serious consideration was
shriveled when the facts as to his
! wholesale arrests OF citizens without
legal warrant became known. And
his ignominious retreats before the at
tacks OF a dozen elements upon his
sedition bills has set the East laugh
ing at him. =
Now it appears that Palmer neve,
was lawyer, in the ordinary sense o1
the term. He was admitted to the bal
!. in Stroudsburg, Pa, and became 8
railroad lobbyist or lawyer at the
state capitol. He did not appear II
the superior courts. He went to con
gress He then again became a rep
! resentative of an oil company before
committees of congress. Then the
Wilson administration began to, take
care of him, and last March he was
made chief of the department Of JUS
tice. He was never admitted to prac
tice before the supreme court until ht
had been two months welding thu
powers Of attorney general of thu
United States
NATIONAL BANK GROWTH,
John Shelton Williams, comptrolle,
OF the currency, has notified the NORTH
Dakota members Of congress tina
their statezi is eighth in the list Of lead
ers in percentage gains, in resource.
OF the national banks, for the periot
of the past 20 years. Returns mad,
November IT,, 1919, form the basi,
of this study of the growth of the M
tional banks for the period since 1899
The states whose national banks
have shown an increase since 1899 o.
1000 per cent or more are, in. the or
der given: Oklahoma, 6,537 per cent
or $357,722,000; Nevada, S,275 pei
cent, or $17,423,000; Arkansas, ITO,
per cent, or $79,116,00o; Idaho, 1857
per cent, or $79,486,000; California
1885 per cent, or $1,000, ,214 600; soutl
Carolina, 1,343 per cent, or $139,s59,
600; North Carolina, 1885 per cent, o.
$171 100000; North Dakota, 1850 pc,
cent, or $96,e27,000; Wyoming, 1913;
per cent, or $55,s74,o 900; South Dako
ia, 1924 per cent, or $1o3, ,732, ,0O0
Virginia, 1,117 per cent, or $3s6, ,544,
900: Florida, Lila per cent, or $1o2,
7s6,000; Mississippi, LIPS per cent, q
$56, ,01S,000; Georgia, &1,119 per CEN
or $1s6,953,ooo; Arizona, 1,02s. pc,
cent, or 29,oo1, 900; and Texas, @1sO1;
per cent, or 1896, GIL, 900. .-.--s, = '<5 &
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