The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1921-02-25

lSlI, some months before this country
declared war"
MOVE TO iMPEAcH LANDS
The move of certain congressman to
lmpeach Judge Landis if successful,
would remove from the bench one of
Its most picturesque characters.
A good many years ago he stepped |
into the limelight by filming the Stand
ard Oil company over 500 900. 600 for
rebating, decision which was re-
versed by a higher court. Landis held /
That the fine for getting railroad re- |
bates should apply to each car of oil |
on which rebate was taken and thus
arrived at the startling figure. for by
the carload the sins of the Standard
Oil were MANY.
At one time he is a spectacular cham.
pion of the common people and at an.
other Just as spectacularly the reverse.
He delivered one of the most violent
attacks ever made on the Nonpartisan
league, yet he has recently stirred up
the big animals by freeing a bank tell
err accused of embezzlement on the
ground that the bank had robbed him
first with miserable wage No one
but the judge himself probably knows
whether he is honest hut erratic in
thought, or clever seeker for lime
light.
The federal supreme court recently
reversed the 20-year sentence ne inn
posed on Victor Berger and his Social
ist associates
ment move appears to be that ne is
neglectng his work as Judge to be high
commissioner of baseball. For the lat
ter work he gets $4,000 year.
RUsso-PERsiAN TREATY TERMS
The terms of the new Russian-Per.
sian treaty are causing considerable
comment among the more liberal-mind-
ed elements.
Russia's remuneration of the privi.
leges secured in that country by the
czar, in union with England, may be
interpreted as clever bid for Per-
sian support by the isolated Soviet
erness that would bring peace to the
world if the leading nations followed
it as we'll as preached it.
1. All territory taken from Persia IL
given back
2. All loans made to Persia by the
czar interest on which amounts to
more than s5,0OO,OO0 year, are can.
celled
3. Commercial concessions demanded
| for Russian interests are annulled.
A. Russian banks formerly maintain.
ed to enable Russia to control North
Persian business are given to Persia
The treaty undoubtedly will cause
more embarrassment to England. Her
spheres of influence in Persia and
worth much unless they are to be ex.
plotted. and imperialist exploitation
will look the worse to the natives with
the Russian comparison.
THE TRoUsLE-MAKlNG BUSINESS
Much has come to light in the past
week on the use of spies by large cor
porations and interests anxious to pro.
duce red" scares.
A confession by Albert Ballin, one Of
the 'red" agents. before an official
committee investigating New York pc.
lice conditions, is perhaps the most
important.
Ballin declares that the detective
agency employing him. which in turn
was paid by leading Chicago business
men, employed hundreds to talk and
scatter wj'd-eyed propaganda and ia
induce innocent citizens toline up with
them. During the trial of the 20 al
legged communists in Chicago recently
Ballin says, he typed threatening let
ters to the Judge, prosecuting attorney
and other parties.
"The latter manager of the agen
cyl dictated a letter which 1 typed.
says Ballin's sworn statement. "Ons
letter was sent to States Attorney
Maclay Hoyne, one each to Assistant
States Attorneys Barnhart and Heth
one to Special Prosecutor Frank Com
merford, one to Judge Hugo Pam, ant
one to the general manager Of thu
agency, the same who had ordered thu
letters, and one to Henry Berger"
The last named was custodian o
the business mems fund for putting
down radicalism.
One Of the almost humorous point
in Ballin's confession of disgusting
trickery and professional trouble-mah
ing, is the point that the agenc!
charged the red hunters SO day TO
each spy and paid most Of the spie
only So.
The New Republic. well-knowl
4 liberal weekly magazine of New Yori
e is running series of article on tn
e use of spies and so-called UNDERGONE
J, men to disrupt and spoil organization
+ of workingmen. The series is the n
e suit of a careful survey made unde
d the auspices of the Cabot fund for il
dustrial research.
}. The first article reveals that grea
t corporations have grown up which d
f little else but this sort of work.
Ann Arbor. Mich.-Dean victo