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

with them and is not willing to try to
understand and alleviate their wrongs.
every INSCRIPTIONS means that
fear and malice could suggest have
been employed in the attempt to de-
stroy the Bank of North Dakota. The
Bank of North Dakota is still solvent
and the people of North Dakota de-
termined to carry on the fight they
have been waging SO long"
U. S. JOINS INDEMNITY CHORUS
Secretary of State Hughes has in
formed Germany chat no proposal
worthy of submission to the allies had
come forward" and that hence further
steps by America to secure mediation
would be useless.
America thus refuses to play the
part of q peacemaker, and one may
have to read the mind of Hughes and
our diplomats to know the real "why."
Not since the days of Napoleon, the
Tooth anniversary OF whose death
France is now celebrating, has the
world been vexed with such tremen-
dous nonsense from the point of view
Of the people as during the last two
years.
The slogan, Germany must pay"
keeps allied people from rejecting on
whether payment can be made, or
whether world trade can be on an arti-
fetal basis.
She could not possibly pay the sums
demanded in money. There is prob
ably not $5OO,OOO,OOO of gold and sill
yer in Germany. And if she pays in
the equivalent of money-goods-al-
lied factories and workers must slack
en- up. Thus the coal taken from the
Rhine country by France as indem-
nifty is being sold in Italy and is cut
ting down the English coal trade.
Germany could send us potash, but
unless she gets paid for it she can not
pay the potash workers and can not
buy our cotton, pork and corn. Trade
between nations must be on the basis
of exchange of equivalent products.
The statesmen know this, but they
let the people of the world get in
worse and worse condition from trade
stagnation while they jockey around
for this and that group of interna-
tional resource grabbers.
DISARMAMENT MOVES
SQUELCHED
Three different congressman who
have disarmament resolutions before
the house have been prevailed upon
not to press their resolutions at the
present time.
| They are asked by party chiefs, rep
resenting the president, to avoid amy
action which might be embarrassing to
the administration in the conduct OF
it's foreign affairs.
One Of the features of all the reso-
buttons was a request to the admins
tration to take steps to bring about
a conference of the nations on world
disarmament.
1t was a decided victory for the
militarists, because while disarma-
ment advocates lay down the militar.
lists will have no scruples about "em-
barrassing" the administration OF
about embarrassing the nation with
terrible military expenses and another
war.
6,988 BILLS INTRODUCED
Since congress met in extra session
on April II last, there have been LAO;
bills introduced in the senate snc
$685. in the house, or total for con
gress to consider of 6,988.
Committees will weed out many Of
these. Good bills for people generally
get lost in committees. Many other:
are of the "you vote for mine and II
vote for yours" type which congress
men need to hold up their politica
fences, and these generally go through
in a hurry-the less notice the better
/, The emergency tariff bill has passee
the house and the senate will probabl,
pass it within the next few days.
Another important bill to get through
, the house and senate is the immigra
ton bill, restricting for Ia months tn
entry of immigrants in excess of 3 pc
cent of the nationals of the particula
country here at the time of the 191,
census. Attempts to amend it in favo
. of political refugees were defeated.
, HOUSE PASSES NAVY BILL
The house has passed the naval ap
? preparation bill carrying a total o
!. 1896, 100000, which is nearly thre
times our naval appropriation for tn
{ period before the world war. Thus d
: the politicians continue to talk peac
J for home consumption and practic
militarism.
u It is also announced that Genera
3 Pershing is to be made chief of iva
) staff" We "need" two general staff
evidently-one for peace and one fo
r war. It appears that Germany ha
something of this sort before the wal
e So it is necessary for US to have it.
/, Critical relations" with Japan wer
. used to stimulate support and passag
2 nf tho hill