The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1938-01-20

fats and oils. In that instance Con-
gress disregarded the recommends,
ton. Then he sent to Congress q
communication wherein he comes
out against continuing the three
percent interest on farm loans and
bringing the interest on Commits
sioner loans down to the same lew
ell. Here again he was also over-ri-
den, but his efforts against the Lud-
low Amendment was successful.
I prophecy that the movement to
give the people the final say in de-
claring a war that Is to be fought
on foreign soil gain momentum and
sooner or later such a provision will
be written into the Constitution.
Had we been permitted to bring up
the Ludlow resolution we would
have sought to amend it to read as
follows:
Except in case Of attack by arm
ed forces, actual or Immediately
threatened, upon the United States
or its territorial possessions, or by
any non-American nation against
any country in the Western Hem
isphere, the people shall have the
sole power by national referen-
dunn to declare war or to engage in
warfare overseas. Congress, when
it deems a national crisis to exist in
conformance with this article, shall
by concurrent resolution refer the
question to the people"
ut clr q fhar0 nut hin O
in such a proposal that would place
us at the mercy of any foreign
country?
"Time To Wake UP"
Under the above title Ferdinand
J. Wiener, Of Route /, Sank Centre,
recently wrote a letter to the st.
Cloud Times-Journal that I wish
could be placed in the hands Of
every voter in the country because
it is so full Of good horse sense,
which is rather a rare thing these
days. Mr.. Wiener, who take 1t is
farmer because he lives ON a rur-
al route, is against the Administra-
tons trade policy that Is giving the
American market to foreign COM
petitors and he denounces in I'M
sparing terms a policy which, he
says. is playing right into the hands
Of communistic Russia.
There is one omission in Mr..
Wiener's letter that would like to
call attention to and it Is this.
Whatever benefits we give to one
foreign country in a trade agree
ment, is automatically extended to
all other countries with which we
have most favored nation treaties
because in all such treaties we pro-
mise to not give to any other coun-
try any benefits greater than they
enjoy. To our sorrow we have such
agreements with all countries save
Germany and Russia.
will again make this statement:
If the American people would re-
fuse to buy competitive products
from other countries, agricultural
and industrial, and only consume
American produced articles, it
would not be long before the great
err part of the ten or twelve million
idle men and women in this coun-
try could be put back to work.
Certainly, the remedy does not lie in
the dole and venture the assertion
that IS percent of our people, who
are now on relief, would thous-
and times rather have a steady job
at good wages but we can't make
jobs for them SO long as we contin-
ue to buy hundreds and hundreds of
millions Of dollars worth Of pro-
ducts from other countries that we
can and should produce at home.
It has been a long time now
since anyone has written and taken
me to task because voted for pro-
tective tariff back in 1929 so take
it that our people are gradually
getting their eyes open to the nee
essity for protecting the American
producer against the competition of
cheap labor in other countries.