Show And tho star spangled banner in triumph shall waVe I 0 Oer O'er er the land of the free and the home of the brave Garfield's Collapse I JN TIC N his hs sweeping b order to save at nt the spigot and lose at the bung Fuel Administrator Garfield has demonstrated demonstrated demon demon- quite clearly that brief authority has hns turned his head and that th t he is thoroughly incompetent for the big Mg task assigned him As Senator Vardaman says sas the order is a calamity and brings us face to face with the startling fact that various branches of our government are running wild Here in tho the west we can view the order dispassionately dispassionately dispassion dispassion- as Mr Garfield has seen fit to penalize only in industries in- in east cast of tho the Mississippi river but his unexpected an nd unwarranted action is a a. matter for national and international discussion for the reason that it will give gic courage to Germany and do much to discourage our allies who have alread already suffered much through the in in- incompetency competency and delays clays of Mr Baker head of the war department American their indor indorsement indorsement in in- The people have given hearty dor ement to the war They have havo stood behind the President President President Pres Pres- ident at every turn of the road They The have deemed it ita a 3 pr privilege and an honor to place their lives and their resources at nt the disposal of f the government They have h answered every evory call with calm courage and stand ready t to meet meet every exigency of the present or future But they cannot aee- aee ee the wisdom or necessity of Dr Garfield's Garfield's Gar- Gar fields field's arbitrary order to silence the wheels of industry and aId throw millions of people ople out of employment at a time when ithen en our part in tho tim WB war demands that these industries industries in in- be kept going at top speed and that all hands bands be kept busy Disastrous as is Dr Garfield's order it may yet ct have ha havea haca a good effect in bringing about more effective work in our our conduct of the war Criticism of the Garfield order has been most severe seere from Democratic senators and newspapers that have given gi partisan support to the ad- ad ministration ion The New York World an administration pa per says The coal order issued by Fuel Administrator Garfield Gar Gar- field is the greatest disaster that has befallen the United States in this war Unless it is revoked forthwith by President Wilson it means the loss of hundreds s of millions of dollars in wages and in products and a demoralization demoralization demoralization de de- de- de moralization of industry that hat can cnn be nothing short of calamitous And this apart from the actual suffering that must ensue arnon among great armies of great earners who depend upon their days day's wages for their daily bread and who are arbitrarily condemned to idleness b by the fiat of a 0 federal bureaucrat We c cannot imagine what Mr l Garfield was thinking of when he issued this order nor can we understand wh why President Wilson permitted him to issue it The order in itself is a c confession of incompetency There can be beDO beno berio no rio more damn damning ng indictment of a fuel administration than a n wholesale suspension of industry owing to a temporary temporary tem tern shortage of coal in a a. country that has more coal oal I than other than any i Newspapers of the east without regard to politics I i 1 I have ha condemned the action in terms equally severe It IL I IB is' is isa a frank admission that Mr l Garfield is not big enough enough for his job and us closer to a reorganization tion of machine with view our war a a. to making it a menace r enaco to Germany and an assurance to our allies As the matter now stands we are becom becoming the laughing laugh laugh- lug ing stock of Germany and a burden to England an and andEa France Ll Ea Ja 11 ra rt to |