River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1921-09-08

| coal operators" he has not gone
so far as to defend the miners
| in their defiance of constituted
authority. Vice President Murray
| of the mine workers went to the scene
| Of disturbance to try to induce the
| insurgents to return home. Other
union officials had been attempting
this for several weeks without avail
All the nations invited to take part
| in the washington conference on dis
armament and Far Eastern questions
have agreed to send delegations, the
acceptance of Italy having been re
ceived last week. 1t will be comfort
l.ing to the representatives of those
nations at the meeting to learn that
they will probably be accorded the
same privileges as extended to duly ac-
credited foreign diplomats, and that
| therefore they will be permitted to
bring alcoholic beverages with them.
Our government will do nothing In the
way of prohibition enforcement. that
might embarrass the conference.
President Harding, speaking at the
fall term of the war college on Thurs
day, expressed the belief that the time
was coming when the burdens of arma-
ment could be diminished, but de-
clared that "no matter where the best
| aspirations of the world lead us, there
never may be time without the
necessity for armed forces
Despite the objections OF railroad
men, the interstate commerce commits
sion authorized western and south
western railroads to reduce 51a cents
hundred pounds the rates on grain
and grain products for export from
Missouri and Mississippi river points
and on grain from the territory be-
tween the rivers and from Illinois to
Gulf ports, Mobile to Galveston, in
elusive
The commission also authorized the
railroads to publish on five days no.
tice reductions on grain ranging from
l cent to 51a cents hundred pounds
from the territory west of the Mis-
souri, river in Nebraska, Kansas. Colo
RADIO and Oklahoma to Gulf ports.
The rates from Missouri and Missis-
sippi river points and territory be-
tween and Illinois may be published
by the railroads on less than the
usual 30-days' notice.
American food for the starving chill
dren of Russia is being unlOaded at
Riga and Reval in immense quantities
and rushed by rail to Moscow. The
American relief administration has
declined TO pool it's work with the
general plan Of the British, French,
Italians, Belgians and Japanese on
the ground that the latter plan would
be too much in the control of the
soviets. The Socialist national execu-
tive committee of America, running
true to form, has cautioned the mem
bers Of the party and other workers
against giving any support to the
Hoover relief organization, whose
agents, the Socialists assert, under
the guise of assisting the masses of
Hungary, used it's machinery for
counter-revolutionary purposes"
The assassination of Herr Erzber-
ger at the instance ofhis political foes
has thrown Germanysfhto ferment of
demonstrations and counter-demon-
STATIONS, accompanied sometimes by
rather serious rioting. First the roy
alists took the field, at Potsdam, for
the ostensible purpose of celebrating
the victory of Tannenberg. The COM
munists and independent socialists
from Berlin, some 10000 strong, en-
ragged by the Erzberger murder,
marched to the suburb and attacked
the royalists. The police were COM
PEELED to intervene and killed several
persons Next day Representatives of
IL 100000 organized workers assured
Chancellor With that they were
ready TO go TO the front for the re-
public, and both the majority and in
dependent socialists demanded that
the government proceed fearlessiy
against the elements responsible for
the anti-republican demonstrations
and the death of Erzberger AT the
same time President Ebert issued a
proclamation declaring the intention
of the government to suppress with
the iron hand" and with ''unrelent-
ing severity" all opposition to the re-
public. He threatened the nationalist
press with suppression and confisca-
ton and prohibited meetings. demon
STATIONS and publications likely to en-
courage sediti0us movements. On
Wednesday, the day the murdered ex