The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1922-01-26

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ments. 1t is said that five great pow
ers, including the United States
signed the agreement.
Experts testified that enforcement
of the agreement would be practically
impossible so long as nations 60 ahead
manufacturing dyes and other chem
ical products. A nation at war always
uses the most effective weapons.
There was much talk here about
submarin and gas during the world
war, but these things were horrible
chiefly because the enemy got them
first or developed them most effec
lively. We used to rave as much
against the Prussian General Staff or
ganiZation and now we have built an
exact duplicate for ourselves.
TRIES TO HELP HOWARD.
Alva B. Johnson, president of the
Railway Business Association, an or
ganization of the big railroad supply
companies which have been milking
the railroads, has rushed in to clear
President Howard of the American
Farm Bureau Federation and Master
Lowell of the National Grange of the
serious charges made by Senator La
Toilette. LaFollette charged that
these two leaders joined in an inside
deal with the railroad executives, to
fight railroad labor and otherwise play
the Big Business game. Mr.. Johnson
says:
I'm the first place, the meeting was
not secret. It is true that there were
no reporters present, but the fact that
the meeting was called was known to
the American Bankers Association,
the United States Chamber Of Com
MERGE, and to all the leading national
organizations of banking, industry and
agriculture"
Mr.. Johnson does not Indicate what
to his mind are leading national or
plantations of agriculture, but it is
apparent that only those organiza-
lions were informed of the meeting
who were referred to by Senator La
Toilette in his speech exposing the
secret meeting.
It would seem that Mr.. Johnson
would have served both Howard and
Lowell better if he had kept silent.
BONUS APPROVED.
President Harding has let it be
known that he will favor a soldiers
bonus if the bonus bill also provides
means for it's payment and he will op-
pose any bill which does not provide
the finances from some special source.
Representative Bacharch of New
Jersey, a good G. o. P, has intro
duced bill levying a &c tax per gal
lon on the sale and delivery of gaso'
line.
Another suggestion has been to re-
vive the manufacture and sale Of beer
and wines with tax to meet the SOL
diers' bonus. Still another method,
gaining in popularity with, the Con-
gressmen, is to devote any proceeds
that come from our European loans to
the proposition. Those who have
made up the opposition to the SOL
diers' bonus, have no objection to it
so long as. it can be paid for without
involving any sacrifice to large bust
ness.
At a time when the United States
Chamber of Commerce adopted strong
resolutions against it, and President
Harding declared that it would bank
,rupt America, Big Business was
afraid that the soldiers bonus would
involve keeping up the profits taxes
and the rates at that time on million
aire incomes. But this opposition
would melt away in the face OF the
coming election if a plan could be per-
fected whereby the plain people would
pay the bonus by taxes on sugar or
gas or other common necessities.