The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1922-06-01

by exacting an agreement for cost
control along the lines in effect dur
ing the war.
The conference with the coal men
was called by direction of the Presi-
dent, who evidently had arranged
with Mr.. Hoover to put into practice
the things that he was that day en-
gagged in preaching.
Incidentally, the incident illustrates
very correctly the official opinion OF
the National Capital towards the.
coal operators.
SHOWING THEM IN MISSOURI
The fate OF Senator Reed in the
Missouri contest is one of the most
interesting features in the political
battles now going On in the country.
Reed is regarded I'M Washington as
one of the great debaters Of the
Senate. Perhaps no man in that
great body is more interesting, fiery,
or more eloquent. But he is a
"stormy petrol Of so unstable a type
that he would likely plead guilty to
most of the charges hurled at him
| by Woodrow Wilson to the effect that
he is incapable Of Sustained alleg-
lance to any cause or purpose. Reed
makes his own causes and purposes,
and of course the senate never likes
that sort Of thing. Many Senators
| try to operate in this single-handed
manner, but they all fail. If Senator
Reed proves the exception in the
Missouri contest it will be solely be-
cause he possesses powers OF oratory
and magnetism with which only Miss
ouri and the National Capital are
thoroughly familiar. To give Reed
his due: Patrick Henry and Daniel
Webster had nothing on him. when
1t comes to forensic debate"
THE TIRESOME TRAFFIC
Republican leaders in the Senate
are having q rough time with their
bill. They have even withdrawn
some of the Senate provisions and
substituted the original House sche-
dulles, in order to pacify opposition
within the party. The Democrats
are bling accused of trying to hold
lup the bill until late in the summer
| so that they may secure further pol
iticial advantages out of the Re-
publican delays. Commenting on
Jhis charge, the conservative Even
ing tar, of Washington, says: well
that is the rule when the tariff is
under revision. Both parties have
played the game. The Democrats
played it against the Mckinley re-
vision and won; the Republicans
against the Gorman-Wilson revision
and won.
NATIONS NOT DISPOSED
4 TO DISARM
i Advices received in Washington
from the League of Nations at Genoa
frankly states that the responses re-
ceived by the League from the na-
tions of Europe asking them to dis
arm, or limit their ornaments, have
been unavailing. The only out
standing exception to what League
circles call the general refusal of the
world to disarm was the Washington
conference. The League has there
fore-perhaps rather reluctantly, ar
rived at the conclusion that Ameri-
cas- great influence, morally, com.
mercially and financially, throughout
the world, would compel the nations
to reduce their ornaments, when
efforts of the League would fail. Thus
we are told that the moral force Of
the League is insufficient to put its
program or its ideas into force. What
interests, or factors exist in the
European Nations to prevent the
reduction of ornaments is not dis
cussed. The world is simply ask
ed to believe that America alone holds
the power to bring about disarma-
ment.
NEW FRAUD CABINET