Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-01-30
: Comment and Criticism
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/ iHe NH4c9go lftbNhe Stands GU ~
t1fmen,or Of Mexico ana as a news
paper thar still eiings to The idea 81
/ United States Intervention. Listen to
il:
When the foreigners put their
/ money in such a state fas MeNicJl
they want /. back on its equivalent
and their governments believe they
are entitled to it, Unless Mr. Morgan
has deceived US al this time. he vii
/ want security Tor a lean and ii there
Is any reputation he viii want the
United States to collect fer him. The
thought Will scandalize the forward
/ lockers, but what of it?p
Yes, what eff it? What of any
thing, just as long as Morgan & CO.
IS given the unconditional backing O.
| the United States army?
Now nobody with sense will con
done the idea Of debt reputation. ana
no nation lightly repudiates a deb.
But it has been done and by the
! United States of America, toe. as wei
as by several of The states
At present however, there is no
sign of teuudiation in Mexico
and the conduct Of the Chicago
Tribune is merely the conduct of
a SWashhuekler thai wants Ameri-
| can intervention all the time ON
any preteXt and for one reason.
The Tribune editorial is about as
bad piece of business as can be
| imagined. But happily the American
people are in no mood to be stirred 10
! the conquest of friendly and grow
- i.
nicely, thank you, and millions e
Americans wish her well and want
to help her.
The Republican majority of the
New Jersey Legislature has taken q
leaf cut of Al Smiths joke book and
| has decided TO refer the Child Labor
amendment to the people.
Surely the employers are playing
their cards we'll. They are clouding
| the issue with huge success and the
good people that let themselves be
fooled are stacking up regrets fer
later years.
The referendum is a democratic in
stitution, but any institution may be
preverted-and that is what is hap
pening to the referendum. 1t is being
used as a subterfuge by which en-
ployers Of child labor NAV save their
| freedom to exploit childhood.
Ii is a pretty sick piece of bust.
ness. The National Association Of
| Manufacturers is doubtless proud II
its campaign to keep the children IN
the mills! 1t ought to be!
49,
Two women now are state COVER
nors. There's Gov. Nellie Ross and
Gov. Ma Ferguson. Up to date they
are going about their business in
way that indicates fairness, good
sense and civic conscience.
Women hold a goodly number OF
high Offices in state and national gov
ernments today and the first graft eN-
pose under a woman's regime has YET
to come. 1t isn't sometime that cant
happen, but that it hasn't happened Is
most encouraging circumstance.
The country-includino Labor-wili
watch the work of these two govern
ors with a deep and sympathetic IN
terest.
The Iackawana railroad feeds
Phoebe Snow on the fat of the land.
1t DISPLAYS her in immaculate attire,
always enjoying the best and always
being provided with the best the road
affords.
But it is different with the shop
men. At last they have called ell the
long strike, fought by he Lackawanna
to the bitter end.
They weren't treated as Phoebe
Snow was treated; and now that they
have called off their strike the road
announces that they viii be taken
back individually and as new EN-
poyes, "if and when If thus means
anything at all it is simply that II
pays to advertise"
The United States Senate IS con.ln-
uously gabby about international reia-
tons. Il is a forum for dissention
ANY Senator who has a CROUCH IN his
system can get rid Of it on the Sen
ate floor. Putting up blocks ana then
pulling them down is about the oest
thing the Senate does.
Lei anybody anywhere start
something good and you may be
sure some Senator or some little
Senate CLIQUE viii get busy to
hammer the daylights cut ot l., i
There are irreconeilables who don
want to have anything to do with Ea-
rome. but who ache for chance 20
team up with the soyiets. And there
are Senators who want anything n
the world but a recurrence Of Teapot
Dome induisitiveness. There is in the
Senate the oueeTest, wierdest assert
mint of mulishness visible anywhere
on the continent. -.
There is, however one thng INA.
masses understanding. Why cannot
the Senate ever agree With ltseh en-
ANYTHING constructive or helpful 10
civilization? Why can We not nave
something better than heekling ana
Fostering?
President COOLIDGE urge eoopefa1,.
tiva farm marketing. That Is ssif
holm. In the long ran self help rea..}
belns. while any ether kim OF het3
soon ceases TO be OF any value.
The labor movement has feI ear
,,eed cooperative farm marketing
sooneration all down the line. Tor the
-, apd for others.