The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1924-04-30
ALL BOUND ROUND WITH A WOODEN STRING

There is nothing surprising in the dispatches from Mime
sofa saying that radicals in that State are very much dissatisfied
with the records of their recently elected spokesman in the upper
House of Congress. According to reports, the Minnesotans who
voted for radical representation in Congress are dspleased be-
cause their chosen legislative agents have not only failed to &C
cOmphsh anything along the lines of their cOmpaign talks but
have even failed to place before Congress in definite form any
measures looking to the relief so much desired. This is the usual
experience.
Over in England there was sent to Parliament several months
ago a group of radicals who had made their campaigns almost
entirely on criticisms Of the party then in power. The supporters
of those radical candidates are already expressing keen disappoint-
ment that nothing definite has been accomplished, or even pro-
posed, that promises relief from unsatisfactory conditions.
Premier Macdonald was confronted by the problem presented
by a large number of unemployed. During the campaign he had
intmated the belief that this problem could be solved largely by
the recognition Of the Soviet government of Russia, which would
revive trade and create employment. When he had been placed
In power and thereby acquired responsibility for national policies
he granted a tentative recognition of the Soviet government but
limited that recognition by so many conditions that his position
was practically the same as that which had been announced by
the United States. He found himself dealing with the representa-
tives of a government which he could not trust and the sort of
recognition he was willing to extend did not materially increase
the trade between Great Britain and Russia.
Having failed in that direction the only recourse Macdonald
has been able to suggest as a means of furnishing more employ
ment was the laying down of keels for new batteships-a re-
course utterly at variance with the pacfist teachings of the group
that had supported him in his campaign for election. Macdonald
has found it impossible to frame any constructive program which
he could recommend to the favorable consideration of the country.
The radicals in our own Congress are in much the same posi-
ton. Because industrial conditions in the United States, although
good on the whole, were exceedingly bad in spots, they found
1T easy to get votes by criticising the administration in power
When placed IN a position where they can frame and introduce
measures proposing constructive remedial plans they find it i'm
possible to make good the vague promises by means of which they
were able to get votes in a political contest.
The radicals in Congress have made a coalition with the
Democrats. Through that coalition they ought to be able t
muster the vote with which to put over any constructive program
they may be able to devise. They were able by means of that
coalition to hold up the Republican organization of the House
they were also able to decide the election of a Chairman of the
Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce. On numerous &C
casiOns the combination of Democrats and radicals has demon
strated its power.
There is no excuse, therefore, for any of that group wht
may fail to submit a definite plan for any aid believed by then
to be practicable and proper for the Government of the United
States to extend to private industry.