The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1921-05-13

WASHINGTON, d. Separate
,eace with Germany was approved by
: ~ to % vote in the senate on April
30.
The vote was strictly along party
ines, except that three Democrats
broke away to vote for it. Senator
Nelson of Minnesota had talked
against the Knox resolution providing
Tor the peace declaration, but was
paired with an absent Democrat and
hence did not vote.
The measure is now before the
house.
The Democratic position was that
The peace resolution reflected on the
Paris treaty approved by the former
Democratic administration, and that if
anything was to be done the Paris
treaty should be approved.
Relations between America and Ger
many are not changed in any impor-
tant way by the Knox resolution, be-
cause such relations are q matter Of
treaty making between the two ma
lions. Whether we shall eventually
make an entirely new treaty or accept
the Paris treaty with notifications has
not been decided.
In the form in which it passed the
Knox resolution repeats the war dec
taration of a little over four years ago
and protects the rights of the United
States in possession Of the German
and Austrian property seized by the
alien property custodian during the
war until final disposition he's been
made by congress or by treaty.
Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska, who
vas Wilson'S right-hand man in the
senate, declared that the resolution
was an attempt to force President
Harding's hand.
ut is an effort by coterie of Re-
publican Senator's" he said, ''to make
good the boast heard during the CAM
paign that hereafter the dominant
group in the senate would run this ma
TONS foreign affairs. It is deliber-
ate attempt to force him finally to give
up the Versailles treaty as q means of
settlement and to make a separate
peace"
CHURCHES BOOST N. D. BONDS
North Dakota people probably do
not realize the interest which their
fight for democracy has awakened
among progressive people throughout
the nation.
And it is an interest which is bring
ing aid to the sale of the North Dako-
ia bonds needed to carry out the pro-
gram frowned on by Wall street. Re
action against control by special privi-
iege is gathering momentum and the
North Dakota issue furnishes a strik-
ing rallying point. Another is the i'm
perialism of the new administration
and its heavy war preparation ex-
penses.
One of the hopeful developments is
advertising for the North Dakota
bonds in the Baltimore Sun paid for
by the Church League for Industrial
Democracy, an organization made up
of members of the Protestant Episco-
pal church. A church in Cincinnati
pledges 100000 in bonds from its own
members.
Another is a bond campaign in Bos-
ton led by Ex-Governor Foss of Massa-
chusetts and other local progressives
In Detroit the millionaire mayor and
philanthropist, James Couzens, is
leading North Dakota bond commit
tee.
Small business, manufacturing
wholesaling, retailing-which has nc
voice in the big press-has been treat.
ed exactly as North Dakota has during
the recent depression by the money
trust. The typical small manufactur.
er dare not talk for fear of losing
what little big business has left him
but he is thinking hard as never be-
fore. This class, which produced the
issues in Wilson's first campaign, wa.
silenced temporarily by the war ant
by the power given the trusts through
the war.
The National City bank of New
York has put out pamphlet attacking
North Dakota, but with presiden
like the notorious Stillman it had t,
avoid the free love charge against tn,
farmers.
LADD DENOUNCES TAFT
DR.. Z. F. Ladd, the new senate
from North Dakota, made his frs
speech on the floor this week whel
he arose to defend North Dakot,
against the uniformed attacks of ex
President Taft.
at is clearly evident" said tn
senator, chat Mr.. Taft knows littl
of the real problems Of the practica
farmer who tills his own land, but ha
depended on information largely fur
nished by that group which has 70
ages, and in North Dakota for tn
past 40 years, 'farmed the farmer.
and from which group the filters Q
the soil are determined to break ava
in their own orderly fashion and q
loyal American citizens"
Vigorous Endorsement Of the stat
officials of North Dakota and Of tn
Bank of North Dakota were feature
of his address and also clear explains
tion of the motives of the anti-farme
group.
Senator Ladd served notice that til
farmers Of the Northwest could n
longer be insulted by old party leader
eff these great bodies of farmers &