The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1921-04-15


eminent owned facilities wherever
possible without unduly interfering
with private enterprise or govern
ment needs, should be made available
for general usageS."
CIRCULATION by the federal govern
ment and encouragement Of aviation
for development for military and civil
For The Service Men
'AThe American people expect con-
gress 'unfailingly to voice the graft
tude of the republic in a generous
and practical way to its defenders in
the world war" The immediate ex-
tension and utilization OF government
the acute conditions most complained
Of"
ordination of various govern
ment agencies now working on the
subject and endorsement of the pend
ing maternity bill.
Investigate Lynching.
Congress ought to wipe the stain
of barbaric lynching from the ban
'ners Of a free and orderly represen-
commission with representatives of
white and black races to study and
report on the subject" the president
said, has real merit"
The Army and Navy
EARLY consideration of pending ap-
preparation bill was urged. "The
government is in accord with the
wish eliminate the burdens of heavy
armament" said the president "the
mony with such movement to ward
the higher attachments of peace.
But We shall not entirely discard our
agencies for defense until it Is re-
moved the need to defend. We are
ready to cooperate with other ma
ton to approximate disarmament but
merest produce forbids that We dis
arm alone"
"The staggering load of war debt
and gradual liquidation. We shall
hasten the solution and aid effectively
In lifting the tax burdens if we strike
resolutely at expenditure"
Enactment of a national budget
system and general reductions by eff
ficient management of the cost. of
government.
LESS of government in business as
well as more business in government.
There is no challenge to honest and
lawful business success. But govern
ment approval Of fortunate, untram-
meled business does not mean toler-
alton of restraint of trade or of main
tanned prices by unnatural methods.
Anxious as we are to restore the on
ward flow of business it is fair to
combine assurance and warning in
one utterance.
Talks On Agriculture.
THE maintained retail costs in
perishable foods cannot be justified.
has been recorded by the high cost
of living has not yielded in like pro-
portion. Without the spirit of hos
tility or haste in accusation of prof
iteering some suitable inquiry by
congress might speed the price read
justment to normal relationship,
with helpfulness to both producer
an dconsumer. A measuring rod of
fair. prices will satisfy the country
and give us "a business revival to
and all depression and unemploy-
ment."
Opposes League of Nations.
These were the principal subjects
touched on in the address which was
about seventy five hundred words in
length, and a large portion of which
was devoted to the related subjects
of peace, the League of Nations and
the country's foreign policy.
The presidents discussion of the
peace question opened with a definite
League of Nations. "In the existing
League of Nations, world governing
with its super powers" said the
president, ''this public will have no
part. There can be no misinterpre-
tation and there will be no betrayal of
lean people in the recent election, and
settled in our decision for ourselves,
it is only fair to say to the world in
general and to our associates in war
in particular that the League cove
nant can have no sanction by us.
"Manifestly the highest purpose Of
the League of Nations was defeated
in linking it with the treaty of peace
and making it the enforcing agency of
the victors of the war; There
can be no prosperity for the funda-
mental purposes sought to be achiev-
ed by any such association so long
as 1t is an organ or any particular
treaty, or committed to the attain
ment of the special aims Of any ma
ton or group of nations. In rejecting
the League covenant and uttering the
rejection to our own people, and to
the world, we make no surrender of
our hope and aim for an association
to promote peace in which We would
most heartily join.
viii Keep Our Pledge.
''In the national referendum (the
last electlon) we pledged our efforts
toward such association, and the
pledge will be faithfully kept. In the
blight Of policy and performance we
told the American people we meant
to seek an early establishment of
peace. The United States alone among
the allied and associated powers con
tinues in a technical state of war
against the central powers of Europe.
The anamolous condition ought not to
be permitted to continue. To estab-
lish the state of technical peace with
out delay. should approve a dec
laratory resolution by congress to
that effect with the qualifications es-
sential to protect all our rights. Such
action would be the simplest keeping
of faith with ourselves and could in
no sense be construed as a desertion
of those with whom we share our
sacrifices in war for these powers are
already at peace.
Cannot Mistake Our Position.
"Such a resolution should under
take to do no more than thus to de-
clare the state of peace which all
America Graves. 1t must add no diff :
Guilty in effecting with just repara- :
tons the reservations for which for all
Europeans, and upon the world, econ
l. = must be founded. Neither for
mer enemy or ally can mistake Amer