The Holly chieftain., 1923-08-09

| yolstead law, and asserted that. de-
spite these votes and since the eight
eenth amendment and the volstead
act have become the law of the coun-
try, he stood for rigid enforcement.
OF American participation in Euro
pean affairs he said: II hope that
when the next national convention Of
the Democratic party assemblies, It
will have the courage and the wisdom
and the patriotism to face this Ques-
tion boldly and say to the American
people:
ave have not forgotten what our
dead soldiers sacrificed their lives on
the battlefields of France to attain.
We have not forgotten the great in.
terests Of the producing masses Of the
American people, and that 10 far az
we are concerned as party, we will
stand true to our principles. and II
victorious we will take our place In
international affairs as becomes the
great American nation.'s
He gave his views on taxation, and
the tariff, asserting that Europe fur
nished the only market for Americas
surplus agricultural products, that
since the war the only means with
which Europe could pay for American
products was in trade, but that the
Republican party had erected tarift
barrier to European goods which will
create depression in this country as
well as the rest of the world.
In Topeka q crowd of Democrats
started a boom for Gov. ]. NJ. Davis
of Kansas as presidential nominee.
TOR the present there will be no
T joint allied reply to the German
note on reparations. France and Bel
GUM sent to London their replies to
the British note, and Premier Baldwin
and Lord Curzon informed parliament
that these replies held out no pros
pect for settlement Of the Ruhr
situation in the near future nor for
the opening of discussion Of repara-
tions Curzon said his government was
inviting the other governments to
agree to publication of the notes ex-
changed on the situation, hoping that
publicity might aid in determining the
problem and might convince the world
of the imperative necessity of prompt
and united action.
1t is said that Premier Poincare's
reply to Great Britain was in effect a
rejection Of every British proposal
and that some of them were treated
in spirit of satirical contempt.
Prime Minister Baldwin seemingly
Is exceedingly 10th to bring on an
open breach with France. and there Is
considerable body of opinion. both
In the government and out Of 1t. that
is against such q breach.
G HORTAGE Of food, strikes, the con.
- tinued decline of the mark and
other conditions point to the impend-
ing collapse Of Germany. Fritz Thys-
sen. one of the industrial magnates Of
the Ruhr, discussed with Ambassador
Houghton the hunger situation in that
area, and the German papers are ask
ing why the United States cannot
send its grain surplus over there. In
the cities Of Germany the food short.
age is very serious, for the farmers
refuse to bring in their products. Po-
liticnlly, 1t seems likely that the fall
Of the Cuno ministry cannot be de-
ferred much longer. Stresemann may
be the next chancellor, with a govern
ment based on coalition Of Socialists.
Democrats, Catholics and Industrial
| ~ Dol pcI,o Ill
luton, SO often put forward by Ger
many to bluff the allies into gentle
treatment, was much lessened by the
fiat failure of the RED Sunday" plans
on July 90. The widely advertised
demonstration for Rhineland repub-
lie also was fzzle.
MO ONE has yet devised way to
IN put the price Of wheat up again
where the farmers think 1t should be,
but statisticians are now demonstrat-
ing that. in the Middle West at least
what the agriculturist Is losing in
wheat this year he ~ more than max
ing up by good pricss for corn, cattle,
poultry, alfalfa snd other products.
Senator Brookhart has been making
lot of fuss about the sad lot Of the
farmer. but E. T. Meredith, former
secretary Of agriculture, says the
Iowan is disappearing the facts,
and he produces figures to show that
the grain farmer will receive $50O,OOO,.
600 more for his crop In 1923 than he
did in 1922, despite the slump in the
price Of wheat.