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The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1920-03-05
HEAsI.D ATTACKS GRoSyA

A recent editomal IN the Washing
ton Herald, which is largely owned by
Wheat Director Barnes and Mr..
Hoover, denounced Senator Gronna of
North Dakota as having been pro-
German during the war 1t specified
that he voted against the liberty bond
issues. This editorial appeared when
Senator Gronna's bill oiishing Mr..
Barnes job was under discussion be-
fore senate committee.
The senator made a fiat dnial of
this part Of the charge on the senate
fio5r. He showed that he voted for
he financial measures necessary
e the carrying on of the war, al
sufsh he had fought for better
means of paying the cost, as, for in
stance. when hu aanted higher rates
of I alton upon big incomes. He
declsned ho egei, that he never had
denied, nor wished to deny, that he
voted against the declaration of wai,
against the CONSUMPTION law, and
against the espionage act. He voted
for the war deciars ton against Aus
ria because war ii Austria was al
lady a fact.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1920-03-05
WASHINGTON LETTER

Washington, ID. C.-Both houses
of congress are now committed to re-
turn of the railroads ON March 1.
Since the senate had previously
passed the drastic Cummins bill, the
farmers, labor union men and other
elements centered thir efforts in the
house only to meet with defeat. The
Republican machine had made it a
born, right-minded progressives dar-
ed to fight against the railroad pres
sure.
The only hope of the anti-railroad
interests now is a veto by President
Wilson, and before this is read the
presidents action will probably be
generally known.
Under the terms of the bill which
III on " leuss eqa passgd
Th roads are to be returned to
the private owners on March /.
Existing rates are to continue until
September /, when the interstate COM
merce commission shall have jurisdic-
tion over the whole rate matter.
The interstate commerce commits
SION is increased to 1 1 members, per-
haps to outvote several members of
that body who have record for inde-
pendence
Present compensation to continue
for six months. After that date the
roads are to he guaranteed 1-2 per
cent an net value.
A revolving fund OF $500, ,O0e, 900
is established to provide loans to pur-
chase new equipment. Also $780,
100000 more is appropriated to GOV.
er any deficits discovered from the
period of government operation
Wag scales are to be not less than
those in effect on February 20 until
after September 1.
An attempt is made to substitute a
system of voluntary mediation for the
drastic anti-strike provisions OF the
earlier bills.
Some friends of public ownership
here point out that this latest piece Of
congressional folly may not be SO bad
after all. They hold that private own
ership is bound to fail for t he sama
reasons that it failed in the first wa.
year, and whit this failure the ques-
tion will be at last settled for all
time.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1920-03-05
THE LANSING CASE

Day by day the White House lets
escape by the back-door route to tn.
press some fragments of gossip as 20
why the president dismissed Secrc-
tary Lansing. None thus far, how
ever, has explained how the president
could have retained Lansing and Pal
mer in control of the administration
during November, December and
January, unless the president or his
advisors feared the effect of an in-
quiry by congress into his phys
and mental ability to perform the :. I
done in his name and with his sigma
ture during that time.
For example, there is the story that
Captain Stuart, military aide to Lord
Reading, the former British ambassa-
dor, made remarks on social occasions
here a year ago rejecting upon Presi-
dent Wilson and member of the
presidents household. According to
this story Secretary Lansing askad
that Stuart be sent home; Stuart r-
pealed to Lansing, denying the chal
and begging to be permitted to stay
until the return of his chief to Eng
land two months later. Then when
Earl Grey came here as the new am
bassador i'll Novmber, Captain Stuart
turned up, bold as brass. as his per-
s0nal secretary.
White House gossip suggests that
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1920-03-05
WOMEN AGAINST PACKERS

Returned delegates from the ma
tional convention of the League of
Women Voters at Chicago tell an in
teresting story of the passage of the
resolution by this great representa-
tive body of American suffragists, de-
claring for the Anderson-Kenyon bill
establishing federal control of the
meat packing industry.
After Mrs. E. p. Costigan, chair
man of the committee on food supply,
had presented her report praising the
work of tn federal trade commission
and scoring the Big Five packing COM
bine, woman seated in the conven-
ton next to Mrs, l.. F. Swift arose and
asked that the packers side of the
question be heard, as a matter of fair
play. Sh said that the report had
been unfair. The delegates agreed
that the packers official s'explainer," ;"
Doctor Weld, a $4,000 man formerly
e university professor, should have
10 minutes to explain.
Weld expended his first three min
utes in an attack on Mrs. Costigan,
who happens to be one of the ablest
leaders in the new organization. Then
he patronized the delegates, telling
them that this meat problem was too
difficult for them to understand at
short notice Finally he declared that
the clumsy hands of the government
must be kept off the delicate mechan-
ism of modern business, or business
would be smashed.
The women tried to be polite, but
smiles and laughter interrupted his
rmarks ON their mental capacity.
When he was done the resolution Of
tered by Mrs. Costigan was carried by
a unanimous shout.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1920-03-05
PUBLIC DEBT

Just now the anti-farmer specialists
are making a great to-do about in
crease of public debt to provide for
public ownership of utilities and other
properties such as terminal elevators
and mills. And there is danger that
some of the common people who give
little attention to large business mat
ters may be confused by the clever
foolishness of these propagandists.
With public with private debts 1t
is not the amount of the debts or the
fact that there is a debt, but the pur-
pose for which the debt was created
that counts. II tn money has been
used for profit-returning investment
| 1t is a good thing. Thus our public
debt created to build the Panama
canal is an investment; whereas debt
for purposes of military aggranGSlze-
ment or political graft is debt of the
undesirable kind.
Again the capitalization of all our
great monopolies is public debt. It Id
public debt because these monopolies'
are in position to force us to pay a
good return on this capitalization.
The same interests that fear" back
breaking increase in the public debt n
we take over the railroads, clamor for
a guarantee of earnings to the roads
which makes all railroad capitaliza-
t1on, now and in the future. public
debt.
About all our great recources-coal
mines, forests, iron ore, waterpower
now belong to private monopolies
and the capitalization of these monop-
olies constitutes public debt. Near.
ly all our other essential services. like
railroads, ocean transports, market
servcei have been likewise capitalize
ed and added to the back-breaking
public debt. Here we haev the expla-
nation OF why it is that in "rich,
America over half of our farmers and
nine-tenths of our workers are SO des-
perately. poor. The real public debt
which they must carry, that is, pay
returns on, is always ahead Of their
ability to pay.
The substitution OF public for p-:-
vate capital in utilities and natural
resources would stop this debt grow
tn. The wastes and profiteering could
be eliminated and such earnings az
efficient service allowed could be ar
piled to reducing the normal pubiit
debt.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1920-03-05
FARM BUREAU NOTES

I'll will soon be time for little
pigs to begin to come. Prepara-
tlon of the SOW for narrowing is
just about as important as care
after farrowing. Very little corn
if any should be fed shortly be-
fore farrowing and or week or
so after. A laxative food of some
sort like bran and shorts and oats
are usually recommended.
Aside from feeding about the
next thing of Importance is to
prevent bullnose, sniffles or what
is technically known as Necroba-
cillasus. This infection is usually
obtained from the sow's udder
shortly after farrowing. There
fore it is very important to not
only disinfect the pen thorough
ly, but also the SOW at time of
confinement. Compound Solu-
tion of Cresol or any other good
disinfectant obtainable at your
drugstore will do.
Clip Back Teeth
AS this infection is usually OBJ
tanned by the pigs cutting each
others faces with their sharp
teeth shortly after narrowing.
Pig teeth nippers can be secured
from F. S. Burch & Company of
Hicago, if your local dealer does
not carry them in stock. The
four sharp teeth on both the up
per and lower jaws should be
clipped.
Test Seed Corn Now
Some farmers are reporting
that their seed corn is not germ
mating we'll. Now is a good time
to begin testing to make sure of
your seed supply. Would it not
be a good plan to keep over a
years supply of seed corn if ii
tests we'll. Merit year may be 3
hard year to save seed.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1920-03-05
CARD OF THANKS

We wish to express our appre-
citation and thanks to those who
were. so kind to assist us during
sickness, especially to the Red
Cross and business men who bore
our delinquency and all who as
sisted us during this time.
Harry Moshier and Family.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1920-03-05
NOTICE

The patrons of Sisseton Typ.
School District are requested to
meet with the school board at
the city hall i'm Sisseton, S. d.,
aturday, March 9Th, to except
plans for school house and to
change the plan of building
three schools in District if pos
sible.
j. M. HANSON.
Clerk.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1920-03-05
At Goodwill

Morning service, English, at
1890 o'clock.
Sunday School and Bible Class
for adults at noon.
Evening worship at 8 o'clock.
Special music at both services.
Luther League at Gas. Topic:
Jesus in the Garden" Miss Hell
en- Sjoberg, leader.
At Saron
English service at 3 o'clock in
the afternoon. A hearty welcome
to all.
C. S. WANG, Pastor.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1920-03-05

One report of a congressional COM
mittee investigating the governments
aircraft program during the war,
made by the Republican members, de-
scribes it as "a riot of waste" while
another report, made by Dem ~.
lauds it as ga record of achieve,
They may scrap over things lik, j;
just before presidential election, /. i
when matters affecting tn workers
are up for consideration. they'll be
getting closer Blooming
ton (lll.) Searchhght.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1920-03-05
CARD OF THANKS

We wish to express our heart
felt thanks to the many friends
who So kindly assisted us during
the illness and on the death of
ourf ather, and for the beautiful
floral offerings.
Peter Stewart
Katherine Stewart
Allen Stewart, Jr.
Mrs. Ed. Ralstad
John Stewart.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1920-03-05

the president held Lansing responsible
lor Stuart's remaining here for three
months in defiance of the White
Rouse-a thing never heard of in any
civilized nation under the circum-
stances.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1920-03-05

Deputies wanted to write in
surance in Roberts and Marshal
county for the brotherhood Of
American Yeoman, John Reaay.
District Manager, Sisseton, SD.
E ms ZIP.
The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1920-02-13
Russian.T Trade Regulations.

Reports are current that 100000.
QUO worth of business has been placed
by Russian representatives with Amer
lean firms and that the purshasers,
are willing to deposit cash in Amer
Jean banks to cover their orders for
the manufactured articles which the
Russian people are said to be so sorely
IN need of. But the policy pursued
by our State Department Of refusing
trade licenses has hampered our man
nfacturers from exporting their pro-
ducts. If the reports are true that
the allied countries and even Germany
have resumed trade relations with Rus
sia, then our Government should adopt
a similar policy.
American manufacturers are willing
to supply the Russian people with the
products they need, at what promises
to be attractive prices. American int
porters, too, are desirous Of importirg
those materials which Russia has In
abundance and which we need. Prior
TO the war, Russia produced 70 per
cent Of the world's supply of flax, 81
per cent Of the hemp and 97 per cent
Of the platinum. She is rich in fcrro
manganese, in antimony and other
metals. We need these products.
II other nations have taken active
steps to capture the Russian markets
thon ou, manufacturers should be pro.
tected, for when we finally determine
70 take an active hand in Russian
trade we may find little opportunity
left for US 10 do so. =
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WHAT OF IT7
Scott Nearing

AT last. after mpnths Df prattle, comes
a word Of sense from Washington
on the H. G.. of L. "I see no pros.
pect of any considerable fall in prices
for several years to come, says Roy
al Meeker, commissioner Of labor sta
tistics. Then he explains why - be-
cause it will be impossible for the
governments of the world to pay off
their debts very rapidly"
II will!
Rnt that is not the real reason why
prices win stay high. Prices viii stay
high tirst because the efficiency of
the capitalist system has fallen so low
that goods cannot be turned out fast
enough to meet the demand. Second
because the payments 10 the form Of
rent. interest, dividends and profits
are so great n fixed charged on in
dustry that even though efficiency
were maintained, the cost of production
plus this cost Of parasitism would
keep prices high
High prices today mean that the
worker cannot buy back, with his wa
ges, what he has produced with his
energies. This Is the very essence Of
the present ludicrous system Of eco
monte life. NO. NV.
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LENIN! Is there name which
can be pronounced before any re-
preventative group Of citizens any
where in the world that win imme-
diately agisate it as much as this
name of five ietters7 Is there one
which will stir up as divergent a
series of expressions from any au-
dience as this7 We ts:pk not.
No name in history ever had pro-
nounced upon it the anathemas which
have poured upon this name, None
ever welded as great an influence
upon the affairs of mankind as this
simple Russian word. It has been ours
ed in America alone, numberless mil
lions of times by the hired danes who
scribble the made-to-order editorials
of the prostitute press.
But while capitalist hirelings mays
rend their hair in agony for new
adjective to apply to Lenin and the
principles upon which his Social De-
mocracy is based, the worlds workers
are learning to pronounce it with pride
and hope and longing. Russia stands
for all that is hopeful to Labor and
Labor's millions are turning their
faces toward the land of Lenin as the
sower turneth his face to the morning
sun.
There are many names which but
year ago were resounding thru the
world as great and good. To-day they
are but as sounding brass Abhorred
by the masses whom they betrayed,
they grow fainter and fainter as they
pass down the corridors of time. The
world is learning to pronounce new
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with him for supplying millions of dollars
worth of supplies to his government.
This list contains the names of some
OF the eountry's greatest exporters.
Among them are the following who
ere ready to open trade relations with
the Soviet government as soon as the
state department permits ships to clear
from American ports.
This list included:
Morris & Co., Chicago meat packers,
5O,Oo0,0Oo pouds of food products at
prevailing market prices when ship.
mcnts are made possible.
Ella Berlow. 11O Duane Street, New
York. $3,OOO,OOO contract for boots
and shoes
Fischman & Co., 395 Broadway, New
York, s3,OOO,OOO worth of underwear
Weinberg Z Posffer, 100 Broadway,
New York, $s,OOO,OoO worth of machin
cry and tools.
Lehigh Machine Company of Penn.
sylvania, s4,5OO,OOo worth of printing
presses.
National Storage Company, New
York, miscellaneous merchandise to be
delivered in Petrograd, valued at $40.
100000 This contract, Mr.. Martens
raid, was made on Sept. 10. 1919.
Ne stated, that in addition TO tn.
contracts listed, "the negotiations Of
the commercial department Of the SO
Wet Government Bureau have covered
u schedule OF articles required in Rus
sin to total Of approximately 5000,
oO0,opo., consisting Of railway mater
'al and equipment, farm implement
and machinery, tractors, trucks, an,
automobiles, focdstuffs and came.
milk, mining, printing, and road.mak
hly machinery, hardware and tools
voolens, textiles knit goods, shoes
leather. chemicals, medical and surgica
suprlics'
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have. IN general, been erroneous aud
that the word the Polish foreign min
ister really carried back to Warsaw
was Substantially this;
The allies do not propose to use
Poland as an arrowhead to pierce
Bolshevih Russia. The allies cannot
place themselves in the position of
advising Poland to attack the Bol.
sheyiki nor can the allies promise as.
sita'co 10 Poland in such evera
Should the Bolshcviki make an nm.
provoked assault that would alter the
situation. Poland's attention has
been called to the fact that the allies
are establishing certain trade rcla-
tions with Russia. Whether Poland
shall make peace with the Bolsheviki
Is a matter for her alorle to decide.
80 rTx-.E
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POLAND IS KEY TO PEACE WITH
REDS
Harmony Of Europe Depends on War
saws Negotiations With Bolsheviki.

LONDON, = The peace discussions
between the Poles and the Bolsheviki
are being watched in diplomatic quart.
ers here with the deepest interest, since
the general feeling is that the
peace Of Europe depends upon whether
the treaty is signed
In other words, Poland is regarded
as the keystone Of the present situa.
tion and it is felt that as long os
hostilitics, continue between Poland
and soviet Russia tranquility cannot
be re-established in the rest Of Europe.
II Poland should accept the Boil
shevik proposals, diplomatic circles
believe that she would be placed in
the uncomfortable position Of being
asked by the reds TO agree TO n
plcbiscitc for the Bolshevik territory
she now occupies. While Poland has
large number Of nationals in this
territory, she admittedly is in the mi
nority and the Bolsheviki undoubt.
edlv would make strong propaganda
smo,g the population.
Since the -ecent visit of stanislas
patck, rol,a minister Of foreign az.
fairs to n zee and England fer con.
ferences, various reports have been
published regarding the allied atti.
tude t,ward the situation with regard
to Poland aud the bolsheviki. Highly
placed diplomatists, say these reports
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Speaking Of Revelations
By SCOTT NEARING.
saff, ,5writer.
The Federated Press.

Speaking of revolutions, there was
one in Hawaii, back in 1898. the in
cidents of which are thus described by
man who was then in the IInitel
States, senate r. F. Pettigrew.
During IIarrison's administration,
MIR. Stevens was minister to Hawaii,
and he asked that some naval vessels
be sent theer to protect American lives
and property In reality he had
entered into an understanding with Il
small group of missionaries and their
descendants to bring about a revolu-
ton, overthrow the existing govern
nent and annex the islands to the
United States so that their sugar and
their products could come into Our
market free from duty. A naval vessel
was ordered to Hawaii, and, after it
arrived, Is conspirators met in room
and decided to overthrow the govern
mcnt.
cat night 150 of the marines from
the American battleship we're landed
snd marched to point IS yards from
and in front of the government build
ipg in Honolulu. The IL men, having
arrived at the front of the govern
meut building, read their proclamation
and were Immediately recognized as
the government of the Hawaiian is
lands by the American minister"
Who were these sconspirators", who
were So promptly accepted by the
United States authorities as the new
government?
That question is answered by one
of the mots charmingly frank docu-
ments that ever was penned by an apol-
ogist for things as they are. Hawaii
was not annexed to the United States
until 1925. In the meantime, every
form Of pressure was brought to bear
upon the senate to force through the
treaty of annexation. Among the doc
.uments written with this end in view
was An Address by the Hawaiian
Branches of the Sons of the American
Revolution, the Sons of Veterans, ani
The Grand Army of the Republic tc
their Compatriots in American Concern
ing the Annexation, Of Hawaii
The address published in 1897
gives this version of the revolutions:
1.-THE revolution (of 1899 was no
the work Of filibusterers and adven
turers, but Of the most conservative
and law-abiding citizens, of the prin
eipal taxpayers, of the leaders Of in
dustral enterprises. = The address note
further, that. "of the capital in
vested in the islands, two-thirds i
owned by Americans. z 3
There. may haxa ,heea & Ralshsasilk i,
and " keds in Hawaii in 1898. i,u
they get not the slightest credit f0
overthrowing the government, On tR
CONTRARY, the work was done by con
servative; law-abiding citizens, by th
leSding taxpayers and the leader
of industrial enterprise. True to form
the ruling class of Hawaii disposed o
the existing form Of government whel
it had no further use for it.
Shakespeare's m e | oil
Jacques found his lessons in stone
State legislatures and national offie
ais are evidently taking theirs frol
our island possessions.