Show Li Keeping Congress ill in iii the thc Dark a T-ITTLE T public opposition will meet President Wilf Wil- Wil f son sons son's f request for ho the adoption of the new year three time the thc pub- pub a 1 building program At the same je cannot in indorse or e the thc mysterious methods pursued b by byj byI j M- M rp n Wilson in bringing his requests or demands to the tho I J attention of or Congress No Xo o people in the thc world place a I T trust in III constituted C authority than tho the Ameri- Ameri I i 1 of scabS cans Our record in war Avar is evidence e of tho the desire ur people to lo aid the on in iU power po That jc record ord is is full of ot examples of public support when the thc conscience of public opinion doubted the wisdom of the thc course e c may attribute this fact to lo the belief a certain amount of official secrecy was necessary to our success in In war waI To this end wo we o not only delegated delegate II i extraordinary powers powers to to tho the President but we calmly accepted itC l a suppression I l of of p public ic opinion l as a a military i r i I i I Jt S a UL i the President declining to treat trent with the American pe j pie pic on a a. scale befitting the tho confidence and faith tIie they liae h placed in ill him lie He has no open connections with 1 flie f he official representatives 5 of this people sidetracking sidetrack sidetrack- ing the vice president and snubbing Congress Durin During I f his absence in lit Europe his messages es arc are relayed to Congress Con Con- gress gres rc s through 1 administration officials who are arc either r directed or tike take it upon themselves to withhold the thi moat of or these communications The United States cs is entering the most critical period perio l 9 of her history a a. time when the wisdom of wide coun coun- el and unity of action fire are necessary Sal to the country's country S welfare The time has passed when II I I desire and am I I I my m ram program warrant tho the affirmative vote ote of Congress Congress Con Con- gress on vital leg leg-isla legislation tion Vc We e do not know where Mr Mt I r. r Wilson Vilson is going to take tako u us and possibly the situation i i iS iss too delicate for him to tell us but we cannot conceive S of oe a n. situation so delicate that neither C Congress nor nox tb the D I American people can share the confidences of the Pres Pres- ident Tho public concern is very ery capably summed up i ithe in inthe I the words of Congressman Mann Iann He sa says B i 3 What hat the lie country wants to know mow is whether J- J COll Congress CS is asked to to vote ote blindly without information lion tion without I knowledge without the laying laying- of the cards Is on the fa table fable le as has bas been frequently suggested by y the President on an un immense naval nl program the information which would influence Congress Congress Con Con- gress is right i here in Washington and md the admi l- l refu refuses e to take Congress into its dence Mr r. r Vilson Wilson has been an earnest a advocate ocate of fair fairdealing dealing g coining phrases ses like pitiless publicity as r- r c of or his Ills attitude altitude h hi In spite slite of this position it I s becoming apparent nt that it is IS not to apply m in his re relations re- re lations hOllS with ton Congress less The pu public is getting too much mucho o hat i it does docs not want and not cl enough of what is vital Ital to lo its S welfare Ull under e- e the lie open diplomacy program of cf Air Mr 1 Wilson 9 t I Watching the Snake No 0 HARM lL can cnn come from froni the new inquiry into the activities of m radical ical and disloyal societies in in the United States St On the other hand th the tha step taken by Senate should surround the clement with safe safe- r We C have been told and we wc believe the statement state state- ment is well made that the temper of or the rhe American people C does not encourage Bolshevism The country has lc been heen n full of propaganda designed ned to show that no Ian dan iJ ger r threatens the he country fr tm lIn this source At the tho same time there has been an apparent dis- dis j the part of the government to release the vigilance practised on radicalism luring during the conduct of th the war var Hn of or all sorts from pacifists to anarchists an an- have hae taken the signing of the armistice as a sj signal for the resumption of operations They have c il from their holes to resume he dangerous doc doe trines and ami nefarious practices which were aimed at the heart of the thc government go as ns we entered the war The peace pence conference has lias been heen accepted by them as a restoration of or of the thc status occupied before the wr wn f failing ling ling- to 10 realize that b by their perfidy they v ha cleB de tIe- B roe these tieso special privileges es forever fOle Before the War var 31 we tolerated the 1 W. W NY W and the soap-box soap orator more or less as 38 necessary evils r We e looked upon them ns' ns harmless as-harmless ss individuals who were too far gone to be punished i for their crimes and nd not far enough pro progressed f for lor l' l quarters in in our mental hospitals Wo We o heard them thew pr preach ach sabot sabotage e without a quiver accepting their tenets as idle lc threats unworthy of serious selious consideration lt required a n great war to convince con us that the serpent ser set pent hac ha hial fangs that it was something more than the specimen of the thc museum What hat we found is recent r cent I history l and familiar familial to every ery intelligent reader We c found these disciples of force preached d' d dc practicing practicing- as they thc devoting effort every ery to a a. betrayal a al o of the tion that tha fe fed them Considerable time and ni-id n ll na spent in in running these traitors to earth carth and money were placing t them em where they thc should have havo been long before tho thi end of the thc war Avar wc turned our gaze else else- with Avith the result that wo again found operating p in the open Wo We V 0 have bave sounded the radicals against J this disposition be before re pointing to the a t dangers danger a a. resumption of our policy of tolerance tole ranee In this h s fact it is is satisfying f to kuo know that the thc Senate view of is 1 to go- go to g its renew vigilance a at nt a time when radicalism li he Jw greatest foe of t the e country is r P to to T. T fV f- f V Waiting on oi the thc Co Conference JuILE WHILE Russian problems s ar are arc baffling the con con- peace con con- n mid and l Bolshevism is IS perplexing the minds of bf diplomats acquainted with HIt time old problems t of in int in- in significance two men are arc waiting the out out- c come m of the great gathering at nt Paris with Avith Fritz tz stands 15 trepidation by bya a mill and a n farm one on n either cither side of I l i n which are ro lC read ready for work as is b he The ibe land laud I I I J I j Li I I 1 I I j I I I I is unscathed h by lire firo and the buildings ui nn and machinery maI ma- ma I chinery intact Not a single stono is IS missing f from om tho mill not a yard of soil b by enemy forces On I the other other is standing ing a ruined luine I J of n a farm hearthstone anc and tho thio most most u j His Ills mill pill is a II wreck and its itE machinery what hn has not been stolen and l removed to Germany is damaged beyond be he- he- he yond ond repair The farmland is s n a perfect collection of steel and i IS is cross hatched with trenches littered with coils of barbed wiro and null potted with shell holes The 1 be years must como come and go o and many n a harvest Cst s season jn pass passover over land before it is as ns productive as mi it wn wa was beI be be- fore Meanwhile the peace conference at nt whose command the delayed industries of two nations will start once more i is wat watched he eagerly by Fritz and find Francois When one runner is greatly superior to another tho the officials in ill charge of the race huu handicap him 1 m so 50 that the test lest of strength may bo be more even e Now that Germany has I swept over 01 northern Franco France like liko a pl plague guc and mul left to Francois tile the hulk of a n. farm furm it is inconceivable that the unscathed farmlands of Germany German Germany shall be he permitted to ork work with implements stolen from the lie French and the undamaged industrial plants of that country run with equipment taken from froni the French Let tho the two workers on fl opposite si sides es of the lie Rhine flume start with their burdens as becomes their status in peace e. e Let not the war war- scarred fields of France be put into even en competition with the fertile acres Jeres of Germany Y Years cars agone ngone when British prison ships took hapless offenders to distant Australia and aud discipline in tho the prison camps ut in m the Antipodes was brutally severe offenders against regulations regulations reg reg- of or tho the camps were bound up for a a. day lay at nt aLime a alime alime lime until body and anel limbs were numb Immediately upon being Icing released the thC prisoner either cither hind had to per pcr- form a n full days day's tIa s 's s work doing loing- as much as tho tim men whose bodies were free from the numbing of the tight ht bonds of or twenty-four twenty hours or elso else li ho was replaced under bond arid and then expected to perform the tho impossible full fun lays days work when freed at nt the end of the next day Something akin to this impossible feat is expected of of Francois unless the the peace conference handicaps the ruthless Hun who laid laICI waste the fertile fields of France Tho The same holds hold true tnie in hI manufacturing lines Jines Let justice be meted out ont in this tIns matter and let not the whines of Germany s' s sway ay the pe peace cc conference to a maudlin sympathy which wIn wilt place France rance at a disadvantage c in the years to come fa M It is now no reported that President r Wilson lson is embarrassed embarrassed embar embar- by a lack of power in tho tim peace conference lie IIo mJ might ht solve his difficulties as fiS he lie did the thc railroad lem len to |