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Evening journal., 1922-01-31
BORN OF DEMOCRACY.


pON the issue indicated by William Jennings Bryan
~ being most prominently before the country the
Republicans will have nothing to fear in the campaign Of
1922 or 1924
Mr. Bryan. who is stin the most ilustrious and prob
ably the most influential member OF his party said re-
Gently that there is a reaction against the Republican
party and that this reaction founded upon the cond
ton OF the farmers He declared that the farmers
holding the party in power responsible FOR their de-
plorabe condition.
1t was predicted by Republicans late In the Wilson ad-
mnisration, that the depression in agriculture and
in other industries which had begun n 1920 would be
charged up the succeeding administration by the
Notwithstanding their policies had started the de-
preston and the greatest amount OF financial loss had
been sustained before they went out Of power.
II Mr. Byran, who is now permanent resident Of
Florida expects get 10 the Senate the plea that the
Republicans responsible for the condition OF Amer
can agriculture he figuring that Florida voters
unable to recognize facts when they them.
II Mr.. Bryan will turn to page i6 Of the report OF the
Federal Reserve Board for the year 1920 will find
ports from Federal Reserve banks in every district in the
United states.
He win find from that report that farmers bor-
rowing heavily from the banks than before.
and not only borrowing agricultural security bat upon
their Liberty bonds we'll The Reserve bank with head
quarters In Cleveland, for example says:
These figures do not reflect total accommodations
granted to agricultural interests many members bor
United States securities to afford accommodation
to agricultural borrowers"
A similar statement made by The Reserve banks
with headquarters at Chicago ST. Louis and san Fran
cisco These reports OF the Federal Reserve banks can
mean only one thng-that the farmers in such a
deporable financial condition result OF the high cost
o production and Me low price they able to secure
for their commodities that they were not only compelled
to pledge their agricultural securities but also put their
Liberty bonds for the purchase Of which they had saved
and sacrfnced during the war
But this is not all Farmers who borrowed the Sc
curity Of their Liberty bonds 1920 borrowing on
bonds that worth in the market about 50 cents on
the dollar although they had paid 100 cents the as
Of Secretary MoAdoo that these securities were
the best in the worldthat they better than cur
rency
Those securities, under the policies OF the Republican
ADMINISTRATION increased in market value until they
worth between q and 9s cents the dollar. the
creased market value representing gain wealth to
The holders OF two billion dollars Every farmer In
the United states knows when the agricultural depres
sion began.
He knows what administrative policies threw the ful
OF denaton upon the shoulders OF the first
and every Liberty bond holder knows when the marke
value OF has securities began 10 advance.
this be the issue which Mr.. Bryan and his part!
propose TO go before the people, gladly accept ih
challenge
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AMEmcAN INvEsraIENr IN LArIN AMEnIcA.

CCORDING to figures recently published several coun-
N tries are now seeking or in the near future Will
seek accommodations here by way Of bond issues the
total given by Boston paper approxmaes s9OoOoOOoO
follows:
Cuba s5OOoOOO; Haiti. si6OOOOOO; Peru. s5OOOOOoO;
Canada various Italy, s25Ooo0OO Bolivia. $1,000
900 TO s25O00OO0 Chill various amounts: Argentina sOO0
0o0 Department OF Seine Paris s25Oo0O0O: Persia 81
100000 Mouteyideo Uruguay, siOO0OOOO; Nicaragua So
10000; and Uruguay ,naonal), s25OOoOO0 In addition
the Italian cities OF Milan and Florence mentioned and
Austria and Germany spoken OF striving to obtain
credit here.
Several OF the governments mentioned have already
found accommodations in this country The w r. Grace
Company recently stated:
'The financing OF governments through the bond mar
the United STATES has exceeded all expectations the
issues during the year reaching aggregate Of si29-
2e2e6 since January 1921 number OF governmental
under negotiation and there is every reason to
expect that the United states will supply the capital
needs Of Latin America for many years to
shows signs Of assured revival industrial in
vesiment will certainly Increase"
Argentina disposed OF s63O0OoO worth OF bonds in this
country in 1921 The OF Argentina are very
great and the government is good shape hence invest
ment Argentina bonds attended by extraordinary
risk. Her foreign debt in 1918 was ss66OOOOOO
Bolivia placed loans amounting TO 50 253OOO in the
United states last year While she is somewhat back
compared with her sister republics and her for
debt in 1919 was s265oOoO her present necessities
should not unduly tax her resources
Chile has noated loans in this country aggregang sS
10000 during the past year. Her foreign debt in 1915
s228 10000 The government appears to be sound
the Tacna-Arca dispute which threatened the imam
status OF Chile and Peru bids fair to be amcaby
settled by reference to the United States States Depart
mcnt
Uruguay borrowed s750eO0o in this country last year
Her foreign debt 1918 si60OO0oO The government
in splendid shape and the probity Of the people is we'll
Evening journal., 1922-01-31
Mulberry As Campaign Issue
(From the st. Louis Times).

The threat TO make Newberry the
congressional campaign issue this
fail is an amusing confession Of
political poverty The people OF
the country will give little heed to
such an issue, but n it could, by in
gcnious pressagenting, be forced to
the front. the verdict would be
against the self-advertising senators
II was, to the extent of the ability
OF the Democrats. made an issue in
1920, particularly in Michigan. II
may have affected a few voters but
Harding got 1886 votes to 233,4 ,450
cast for Cox. He might have got
four to one. instead of about three
and one-half to one, but for tho
Ncwberry issue.
4 was one Of Chairman Whites
pet arguments that but for New
berry's election the Republicans
could not have controlled the Senate
and organized the. Senate Committed
on Foreign Relations so as TO give
the Senate and the country time to
study the Versailles Treaty. The
great mass Of voters in all the States
that ever consider issues were re-
joiced that something happened to
prevent the Senate being stampeded
into consenting 20 the ratification of
that treay. But the proposition was
without merit, considering the num-
Der OF Democratic senators who op-
posed the treaty. and II was based
on the assumption that Ford would
as Republican have Joined with
the political foe in organizing the
Senate.
Two or three facts about the Mich
/ igan campaign appear TO have been
overlooked by those most vocal In
its discu ssion. Under the Michigan
primary law. now happily and en-
Enthusiastically repealed, a candidate
could run for both party, nominations
Ford sought both the Rpublican and
the Democratic nominations at the
request OF President Wilson, whom
he had supported in 1916 by>a law
ish advertising campaign, very vir
Evening journal., 1922-01-31
Farmer Insists on Defation
CFrom the New York Hersld)

The action taken by the agricul-
tural conference in Washington
shows that the American farmer
knows what is the matter with his
business as seller in the markets
OF the country and the world and
what is the matter with himself as a
buyer in those markets. His trouble
in his operations as seller and in his
operations as buyer Is that while ag-
riculture has suffered general and
drastic dehation. little or nothing
else has.
Under such conditions when the
American farmer goes to market to
dispose of his crop he must part
with II for a song. But when he
goes to market to buy his materials
and supplies he must pay fabulous
prices for them as compared with
what he gets for his wheat or corn
or other products. And he knows
why
Howard Leonard, president Of the
Illinois Agricultural Association,
showed in the agricultural confer
ence that the farmer knows why he
cannot buy as he used 20 but with
the proceeds OF the sale OF his
products when he quoted figures to
prove that "an Illinois farmer
worked sixteen hours day for four
days to pay for the labor OF one
laborer in Chicago for one hour, and
railroad engineers monthly wages
equaled the net return OF forty acres
OF Illinois farm land"
]. II. Howard, president OF the
American Farm Federation, showed
in the conference that the farmer
knows why when he said the aver
age railroad worker receives 81. 500
a year compared with s4OO to $500
that comes to the farmer. Yet the
farmer must buy the same clothing
and the same fuel as the laborer."
And the conference showed that
the farmer knows why when 1t de
bated at high pressure the report
calling on the railroad workers and
coal miners to take reductions In
wages so that freight rates might be
brought to a normal basis. 1t showed
that the farmer knows why when II
all but unanimously adopted, the
following revolution, with only Sam
Evening journal., 1922-01-31
YOUR SHARE.

no you realize what the American farmers the Della
~ ware farmers, did for you personally in 1922
II the crops they raised were divided every man,
and child in the United states would get, in rough
figures:
TNveny-nine bushels OF corn.
seven and one-hah bushels OF wheat
Ten bushels OF oats
one and one-hah bushels OF barley.
-Four bushels OF potatoes.
One ton OF hay.
Eleven pounds OF tobacco
One hundred sixty-nve pounds, beef and pork.
Twenty yJfour pounds of sugar.
Eight pounds OF peanuts,
One bushe OF apples
on top all this the gave you WOOL fruit vege
tables meats and host OF other things
lot Of this stun was exported But in return for IL,
we got an equivalent in other commodities.
With these enormous supplies pouring steadily into
our arder from the farms, II Is hard to understand how
there can ever be hunger in America
Our real trouble is in system OF distribution.
And, surely we should have any difficulty In
keeping warm For mines produce about nve tons
Of coal a year for every American.
To help the coal keep us warm, the farmers produce
forty pounds Of cotton three pounds Of wool year
for each OF US.
our oil industry yearly produces four and onehaf bar
res OF oil and fortyseven gallons OF gasoline for every
American
Enough iron was produced last year despite depres-
sion TO give each Of us 3i pounds
You look these figures over, and you think, My. how
rich our country is, and what awful lot Of stun II
takes 10 keep our civilization gonsr
Il becomes even OF marvel, when you consider
that complete list OF production OF raw materials
would be so long that couldn't be printed in small type
on whole page Of The Evening Journal.
We produce enough In this country. to make every
American prosperous all the tme-in actual commodities
and on the average, prosperous most Of the
| time
We live in a "land OF milk and honey"
That we can ever suffer want, In the midst OF such
profsion OF necessities and luxres proof mat there
s something fundamentally wrong with our system Of
Economics.
/ No one knows exactly what that something Is
We have had business depression in 1871 1884, 1871 1891
1873 1891 1893 1907 and the present time
Some future generation will invent regulator, a
safety valve
Evening journal., 1922-01-31
The Great Social Crime
CFrom the New York Tribune)

Doctrines exist whose application in
jures every member of the human
species. Russia's fetid odors are in
every nostril, and will be for a long
time.
And what are these unwritten laws
which no man may transgress with
out becoming an enemy OF the hu-
man race? One Of them blazes on
the sky. II is that revolution, using
the word in its broad sense. is con-
suming dragon. Though the revoiu-
ton in mind may have a worthy OBJ
ject. its method is fatal. Nature de-
mands gradual change-wilI tolerate
no other kind. When her way is ig-
nored Nature does not argue. She
acts.
When small bits OF territory were
economically self-contained, when
each community produced practical
ly all IL consumed, a revolution, as Il
was called, could take place in some
distant place or city. and the popu-
lation be not seriously disturbed.
Life in the main went on it's Gus
tomsry way. But with the modern
division of labor and all men swap
pers OF surpluses, a fundamental diff
ference has come. The machinery
now can't stop. II is a heart that
must pulse on. Alteration must be
gradual or, in an industrial sense
there is social death. Some day the
men OF the law doubtless will coin a
name for the social crime and define
its quality. But we can perceive its
malignancy without any prohibitory
statute
New York, food experts tell US.
would literally starve in three weeks
II shut of from its back country Yet
in our parlors and classrooms the
interdependence OF life Is largely
ignored. There Is blindness to the
fact that exchanges must 70 on as
they now do and that modification. If
made. must be slow. Our half-think-
ers have minds OF the Middle Ages
and loosely talk OF revolution with
out regard 10 what it involves.
Evening journal., 1922-01-31
Agents of Euuopeanisn1
Return to Attack
CFrom the National Republican,. {.

A movement better organized. bet
ter financed and more determined
than ever is on foot to put over on
the United States some form OF
European enlargement equivalent
to the European League Of Nations
the Versailles league itself. II
possible.
The attempt to rehabilitate former
President Wilson politically in this
connection is only incidental to the
main purpose of fastening on the
American people the yoke Of Euro
peanism they rejected in the great
and solemn referendum of Novem-
ber' 1920. 1t is physically impossible
for President Wilson again to en-
gage in the activities of politics.
Other men are seeking to Use, what
ever prestige still attaches 10 his
name. Still other men and Interests
are attempting to bring to life in
this hemisphere the Euronean
League of Nations, with its scheme
or American entanglement and sub
ordination.
This is the real meaning OF the
so-called Woodrow Wilson Founda-
ton. NO such plan of personal
memorialization was ever before at
tempted in this country during the
LIFETIME of the man to be commem-
GRATED. This was not undertaken in
the lifetime of Washington. Lincoln
or Roosevelt. and IL it had been
tnese men would have condemned
the undertaking as lacking in good
taste. But the purpose Of the at
tempt to rehabilitate President Will
son politically is not to immoralize
Mr.. Wilson, but to revive the
scheme OF super-government re-
1ected by the people so overwhelm-
ingly little more than a year ago.
A feature of the Washington per-
formance Of the Woodrow Wilson
Foundationers was speech by Mr..
wilson declaring that the European
League or Nations is not dead. and
predicting that the American peonle
would yet accept IT. Addressing Mr..
samuel Gompers and the crowd ac-
companying him to the Doorstep OF
President Wilson's home. the chief
exponent of the European league
said; There can be no doubt of
the vitality OF the League OF Ma
tons II will take care Of itself
Those who don't regard It will have
to look out for themselves, for
nave no apprehension or anxiety on
that score" Mr.. Wilson has not
broken the bad habit OF threatening
with annihilation those who refuse
Evening journal., 1922-01-31
With the Photographers

It's a sin to play golf on sunday-the way some play
list Joseph Gazette.
By and by there may be enough conferences TO enable
every far-szed the map to figure the scene OF
distinguished and historic gathering Washington Star
Why do Socialists Of the United States attack small
standing army and applaud Lenine, who maintains The
largest white mans army in the worldg-Cncnnati En-
quirer.
The Council OF the League OF Nations meeting again
al Geneva but what its agenda outside Of auditing
the hotel bills OF the secreiariat nobody knOSsKansas
City Star
British captain describes seeing the water red with
blood OF the Gold Coast the result Of deep battle
between schools OF whales and Of sworish The captain
did not take aildavs. but doubt found the whales
heartily in favor OF marine disarmament-N. Y Herald
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Gompers voting against It:
I'VE insist that the railroad
corporations and railroad labor
should share in the defation OF
charges now affecting all indus
tries. This is essential to the
restoration OF normal conditions
in agriculture and It is essential
to the welfare of the entire COM
munity."
This is literally and gravely true
as to the whole public. Tnere IS
not a man. woman or child In tho
country who is not affected py tne
high freight rates both in respect
of the food consumed by American
families and in respect of the mate
rial transported for working up by
American wage earners.
1t is particularly and tragically
true as to the American farmer VINO
has nothing left from the sale OF
his crop after he has paid the
freight on shipping 1t to the market
where ne sells It. The major cost
Of operating the railroad which maui
the crops is labor. The major cost
OF the coal which drives the locomo-
tive>is labor at the mine, in trans
porting It and turning II over the
carrier consumer as to the farmer
consumer.
so the American farmer is work
ing, in truth. for the labor organi-
cations which handle his products
and produce the supplies he must
have. The farmer knows 1t. 41e Is
not deluded into believing the solu-
ton Of his problem is reinhating his
crops. He knows this would make
everything else higher. as it did in
the war.
The farmer wants to end all infia-
ton. He is not going to stand for
It any longer. He is going 10 com
pei the dehation for those others
which he has had to take for him
self And the way he is obtaining
through the agricultural bloc in
Congress the things he demands In
Legislative matters should make II
clear enough to the infiationists hs
is after with his political pitchfork
that he means to use all his power
to bring down to earth again the
costs now pyramided on his head.
Evening journal., 1922-01-31

DR.. Fridtj OF Nansen, who has
spent many months in relief work in
Russia and has seen face to face the
great horror there. estimates that
$4,000. 900 Russians are doomed to
die from starvation or its attendant
diseases. In the districts affected he
says nearly one-half are TO perish.
The consequences OF the famine,
ne holds, are in the main unescap-
able. The drowning man is beyond
our reach. No matter what our will
may be- he cannot be succored. This
is because OF conditions created be-
fore the harvest failed. The Boil
sheviki, carrying on their expert
ment. wrecked Russia's railroads and
by seizures for the benefit of the
cities. where lies Bolshevis strength,
convinced the peasants they would
not be allowed to enjoy the fruits OF
their toll SO we cannot ship in, and
Russia's own supplies have failed.
The world is but beginning to rec
ognize the breadth and depth OF the
Russian tragedy. The calamity IL
one that the history of centuries may
be ransacked in vain for an equal.
Since the Black Death swept over
Europe nothing comparable with II
has occurred. And in one sense Boil
shevism is worse than the Black
Death. The one. because OF the sci-
entifc ignorance which prevailed,
was Unavoidable What Russia suf-
fers was not only unavoidable. but
was largely artihcially induced. Every
downward step that has come since
Lenine and his crew we're allowed TO
gain power was foreseeable and
foreseen. All intelligent persons
we're able to write the prospectus OF
the progressive woe
In some circles the notion prevails
that 1t is no matter OF common con-
Germ what ideas men may entertain
or what policies they may pursue, OF
what institutions they may set us.
This is a cold and cruel philosophy.
There are abysses of social treason
whose digging is Of universal effect.
Evening journal., 1922-01-31

tuous, OF course. since It was in the
interest Of the Democrats. (This
campaign by the way. did not pre-
vent Michigan going for Hughes.)
It was easy to get the Democratic
nomination. Getting the .Republi-
C, one, however. could be accom-
plished only through all the Wilson
Federal machine. all the immense
Ford business organization-divert
ed, Tor the time. to political purposes
and all the anti-Roosevelt paci-
fists inducing persons OF all political
affiliations to participate in the Re
publican primary.
This was a novel situation. Gov.
Ferris sought the place and his ma
chine opposed Newberry. Newberry
had for a short time been Secretary
of the Navy under President Roose-
welt. He was doing active navy
work II. 1918 and did not once visit
Michigan during the primary. 1t Is
known that Roosevelt and his friends
we're the earliest and most vigorous
boosters OF Newberry, OVERRIDING it,
in the opinion OF The Times
Undoubtedly managers of the. New
berry campaign felt. in view of
Ford's vast army OF business agents
and associates and the participation
of the Wilson adherents in the Re-
publican primary, that much public
ity work would be necessary. De-
troit. with its newly acquired popu-
lation. required special attention.
The Supreme Court decided that
Newberry was not given fair trial
under what II decided was a void
act. LaFollette sets up his personal
opinion to the contrary in declaring
that Newberry violated the law OF
his country" All task of Newberry
buying the primary" is hapdoodle
The show OF expenditures. in the
opinion OF all careful observers, was
an injury both in the primary and
in the following general election
There is not scintilla Of proof that
any voters. either in primary or gen
eral election, were bought.
Evening journal., 1922-01-31

to let their minds run along with his.
Washington managers Of moving
picture theaters saw ft to issue a
pronunciamento last week denying
that the selection of Mr.. Hays to
act as organizer and arbiter for the
producing end of the moving picture
business meant that the exhibitors
were going to permit political prop
aganda on their screens. The week
they did this several Of the Wash
ington moving picture houses repre-
sented at the meeting were showing
Pathe propaganda picture boost
ing Mr.. Wilson and his European
League of Nations. The climax Of
this cheap bit of pictorial clap trap
was the council chamber of the
European league with the seat Of
Uncle Sam pathetically vacant. This
is going on ali over the country and
has been for several years. II some
OF the moving picture exhibitors
and producers would talk less about
their determination not to engage in
political propaganda and would cut
out stuff of this kind. nsuseating to
big majority OF their patrons. their
sincerity would be more generally
credited. Mr.. Hays has sense enough
to know that the use of the moving
picture screen for propaganda OF this
1 kind, whether 1t be pro-Republican
or pro-Democratic, amounts to TAX
ing money under false pretenses,
and he may be depended on to stop
it.
Foes of the substitution of Euro
peanism for Americanism> should be
reminded by a great deal that is now
going on. that the battle for the pre-
servation Of the principles and ideals
of Washington and all of the really
great American leaders who have
stood in the forefront Of our ma
tfonal life, Is not over. Persistently,
insidiously and effectively the fight
for the overthrow Of Americanism is
going on. II is evident that the
forces representing alienism in
American politics and public life
must again be met and defeated.
Il have just begun to fight" were
the immortal words Of a great
American sea captain thought by his
enemy to be on the verge OF sur
render. This must be the slogan OF
those who still stand true to the
traditions and ideals OF unadultered
Americanism. for the interests and
influences which would Europeanize
the United States. despite the re-
buke administered to them by an
aroused people in 1920, have return
ed to the attack.