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Show CACHE AMERICAN. LOGAN, ITAII Deal Estate TheBigqestT Real T in Hist ora National Topic Interpreted hy William Bruckart Washington. I believe the que. thin moM frequently beard In ashltigton tht-eImportant day la: "Now we bare this e Question lt bow ileal, bow la It going to be untangled?" And It occura to me that It Is about (be moat Important question before the A chemist can government today. mix conutltuent parts of formula t Karins thi'iu mi r wire I' t'li.i Spanl-- IT. ('lrtucnt 'n. .ni !:in;l, Gen. J. line I'.i-rr- t I i.' I in Ik I.:i u -- .v',Vi'H , i I triq" Wilkin army, arid William r gmci'iinr of Tit t'n famuli old CahlMu, utiii I l i h Ml'.-issip-pl im. 'I linn tlip rmlt'iillal of II won1 rind, ns was tin nntlmrit i1 "..in to li'ind (hit tn tliom ofi'.dul of a i orl.iin trai t of land ; tin ko,s i Non drli ns were glici! to I'l.'illiorno -- nil ns tin nlli'slanre of ttie Inlial tniits of Nc'.i- (irlo.ms to France, welcomed tliom as r.t. .otis of tlo Knltod States. Tlioii tlie tl.ree men Mopped out Into the Place il' A ruses. At a signal the Tricolor of France began to descend and the Stars Rtid Stripes of the Knited States to ascend. Midway on the flngMalT the two banners met and were saluted. And when the American nag had ysi'lieil the top of the staff and the French ban . yTtlie bottom. It meant that the Louisiana Ter rttory had changed hands for the sixth and last time nnd was henceforth American soil. Thus the fitting climax to this "biggest real estate deal In history" In which Nnpoleon Bona parte, the First Consul of France, had sold to Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States, for $ lli, (MO, 000 a eritable empire of 1,171,0,' Square miles. It doubled the original area of the new republic and guve to that Republic the land cans had not found the restrictions of the Spanwhich in the future was to be the following iard oppressive. But with the arrogant Napoleon States: Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, the holding New Orleans, matters might be very difpart of Minnesota west of the Mississippi, North ferent indeed. Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and most of Then Don Juan Ventura Monties, Spanish govOklahoma, Kansas, Montana, Wyoming and ernor of New Orleans, preparatory to turning the large part of Colorado. It extended our boun Louisiana Territory over to France, closed the daries fiom the Canadian border to the Gulf of port to the Americans and the western settlers Mexico and from the Rocky mountains to the looked upon this as prophetic of what Napoleon's Mississippi liver, which henceforth was to be policy of strangling American trade nnd check ours, freed foreer from the menace of a foreign Ing farther American expansion was to be. What power holding one of our most Important gate Jefferson thought of It Is reflected In the follow ways to the sea New Orleans. Ing letter to Robert Livingston, American min Like so many Important events In American Ister to France: history, the Louisiana Purchase had its origins The cession of Louisiana and the Floridas bj In Uuropean politics and Intrigue. The Louis! Spain to France works most sorely In the United ana Territory had tir- -t been claimed for France States. . . . There is on the globe one single by the explorer. La Salle, who In K1S2 had taken spot, the possessor of which Is our natural nnd possession of It in the name of Louis XIV. In habitual enemy. It Is New Orleans, through 1712 the (Irand .Monarch had farmed" Louisiana which the of our terriproduce of to Antoine Crura t, the greatest merchant monop tory must pass to market, and from its fertility olist of his day, hut Crozat, unable to make use it will ere long yield more than half of our whole of it, had turned It over five years later to John produce, nnd contain more than half of our in Law, the Scotch adventurer, whose hnrsled "Mishabitants. . . . Spain might have retained It sissippi Bubble" had almost overnight trans quietly for years. . . . Not so can It ever l.e formed him from a hero In France to the most in the hands of France. . . . Every eye in hated man in that country. So In 1721 the Lou the United States is now fixed on the affairs o' lslana Territory went back to the French crown Louisiana." He then went on to Instruct Livingston and again nnd in T7t!2 Louis XV had ceded It to Spain. Spanish territory it had remained all the time Robert Pinckney, American minister to Spain, to the Unglish colonies on the Atlantic seaboard obtain West Florida from Spain and New Orleans were winning their freedom from Great Britain from France. Congress was also fully aware of and taking their first faltering steps as n new the necessity for action and it hacked up Jeffer nation. In the meantime stirring events had been son by appropriating on January 2, 1S03, the taking place In France. The Bourbons had been sum of $2,000,000 for the purchase of the desired dethroned, the horrors of the French Revolution territory. Jefferson also appointed James Mon had run their course nnd a new world figure had roe as minister extraordinary to Paris to aid Livrisen above the horizon Napoleon Bonaparte, ingston In the negotiations. the First Consul of France. In the meantime, however, events had been Within a year after, he had become virtually taking place In Europe, and also In America the master of Europe. He had crushed Austria which were destined to make Napoleon play nnd the states of the Italian peninsula. Peace squarely Into Jeffersons hands. Although peace with England was in sight and six weeks after had been declared between France nnd England his victory at Marengo Napoleon sent a demand n 1302, Napoleons belligerent attitude toward to Spain to cede Louisiana back to France. The Ongland was rapidly bringing about a state o' main reason back of that demand was his de- mind which meant another war. Then, too, Na sire, along with his other plans to dominate the polcons plan of colonial expansion was golti" world, to rebuild the French commercial power none ton well. The rebellion of Toussalnt I.'Over in America nnd begin upon a policy of colonial lire In Santo Domingo had been crushed but at a fearful price and this made Nnpoleon realize expansion. of carrying out his ambition-projec- t 1 he treaty by which Spain ceded Louisiana the difficulties French commercin' for back to France in 1S02 was kept secret but soon domination In the New world. after Thomas Jefferson became President In lNtll he suspected what was going on across the At With war with Great Britain Imminent Na lnntic. French control of New Orleans nnd poleon knew that his problem was greatly in French domination of the Mississippi would have reused. He was quick to see that England, mis a serious meaning for the United States, espe- tress of the seas, could easily seize and hob' .ottisiana. Livingston had not had much sue cially to the settlers of Ohio, Kentucky nnd Tennessee. As early ns 171!l they were sending down ess in his preliminary negotiations for the pur the river IL'd.tkwi pounds of tobacco, lfl.OiHl barbase of New Orleans with two of Napoleon's rels of flour. 22.000 pounds of hemp, 500 bar ministers, Talleyrand nnd Marbols. But on Eas rels of cider nnd as many more of whisky for ter Sunday, lSti.'l, the First Consul announced an shipment abroad. stonishing decision to his ministers. He would So long us the Spanish were In control, this sll not only New Orleans but the whole Louis! commerce would not be seriously affected for, ana Territory to the United States even though there had been matters of annoy A day or two after this Monroe arrived it aDce between American commercial Interests and aris and Talleyrand told the two American the Spanish authorities, In general the Ameri ministers of Napoleon's astonishing proposal. three-eighth- s I The Louisiana. Purchase or a prescription, but be never ran undo what he has done, Thus, while the new deal has not ehangsl the physical characteristics of thing, as chemist would do In mixing a formula, the Job of getting (Ida country settled down la one of such magnitude that the untangling of the skein I going to require something more than patience. Consider the farm adjustment program. Or the NHL Or look Inlo the uprooting of commerce and Industry by the various banking changes and currency ami gold maneuvers that have taken place. And Inst, but by no means least, examine the rapidly growing pile of obi. gallons that constitute what we know as our public debt. With reference to the public debt. It should be Muted that thig country, after the World war and Its devastation and aulmosItU'S had been shaken off, proceeded to pay off Its public debt at an amazing After the end of the war rale. when the debt was at Its peak, the government owed a total of $21, It Hands today roughly t $23,400,0000 . In between those two dates, when the country was prosperous and Income taxes and other taxes were yielding their fullest, the debt once was whittled down to about $iti,3Kt,ti01oo. So those who watch over the public debt any they entertain no fears; that when conditions are prosperous again there will he taxes to pay off the debt and that no one will Complain abort the vast sums now being fjierit If the result Is prosperity. of the public This payment debt, however, Is to my mind considerably less of a tangle, a problem, with which to deal, than the farm adjustment scheme on which Secretary Wallace and his Agricultural department folks are laboring. It seems likely, from Mr. Wallace's calculations, that the countrys acreage of harvested crops next year will be at least 30,000.000, and may be 35,000,000 acres below the average acreage of crops planted and harvested annually In recent years. Emergency adjustment plans are responsible They are predicated upon a basts contemplating control of production, a restriction against a surplus that would force prices down. Mr. Wallace Is profoundly convinced that this course will be extremely helpful to the farmers. He sees better returns to them and he sees grenter peace of mind, which after all Is not to be dismissed lightly, among the farm folks of the country. But that Is the Immediate picture. What of the future? Or to quote again the question : "how Is it going to untangle? My own conviction Is that In the urge to get some relief out to the farm belt, too little attention has been paid to the future status of the entire commodity production areas of the nation that can be called farm land. They could scarcely believe their ears when Talleyrand told them of Napoleon's decision. They su.sected a trick. But when Talleyrand convinced them that the offer was sincere, they were more than willing to begin to talk terms. However, their negotiations dragged on for some time, complicated by the fact that Monroe was ill and scarcely able to play his part Tn them. At last they began to reach a basis for agreement, and the two American ministers, unable to communicate with their government before It should be too late, took upon themselves the great responsibility of accepting Marbols terms. On April 30, 1803, Marbols, Livingston and Monroe signed the covenants by which the United States bound Itself to pay directly to France the sum of $11,230,000 nnd to assume debts owed by France to American citizens, estimated at $3.730, ooo, making the total of $13,000,000. It To show how Is said that after they had affixed their signathe farm adjustment program is, it Is tures, Livingston remarked, We have lived long, hut this Is the noblest work of our lives. From only necessary to Like a Game state that every this day the United States takes its rank among the powers of the earth." of Chess crP tlllls far The curious thing Is that they could not realconsidered is one ize that they had bought something of a pig In constituting a "key" In commodity a poke In that the boundaries of the Louisiana structure. These key crops cotTerritory were not clearly defined so they had ton, wheat, corn, etc. occupy more not the slightest notion of the vast extent of the than 1, OOO, (K HI, 000 acres. To change that layout, Secretary Wallace adterritory which they had acquired for their country. Neither could they realize that no other mits, Is just like a game of chess. American purchasers of territory would ever acWhen you make one move you are quire so much for so little, for they got this vast Immediately faced with another, domain for less than $13 a square mile. Within and so on. n hundred years $15 would not buy a square By removing wheat as a producInch of some of that land! tion from one square mile or one In other respects It was a strange transaction. portion of a county, attention must Immediately be given to the ques Livingston and Monroe had far exceeded their tion of to what use that land can authority in buying Louisiana and, as a matter be put. It is obvious that it canof fact, Napoleon had no right to sell It without not be allowed to grow only weeds. the consent of Spain and his own assembly. crop of Spain Immediately made a protest that the sale So there must be a stop-gawas Illegal a protest which she did not care to some kind, gome crop that will not maintain too stoutly, considering the nature of compete with wheat, or with corn the First Consul. Many Frenchmen were also or with cotton or the other crops on which production control Is bebitter about the sale. ing attempted. Even In this country there was considerable As an example, out In western criticism. Of course, the westerners were delighted. But the Federalists in the East, recall-n- g Kansas, they have developed after how Jefferson had denounced Washington years of trial and experiment, a new kind of sorghum cane. It is and Adams for using powers not expressly delegated to the President In the Constitution, were no longer the tall, slender stalk of quick to denounce JeffiVson for doing the same yore, but a short stalk not unlike wheat that has a heavy head of thing. And the President, assuming responsibility for what his envoys had done and dubious grain, or seed, as you choose to It can he produced describe It. of the legality of the purchase, made the historic for about 14 cents a bushel, and admission that he had stretched his powers unfarmers are flocking to Its use. It til they cracked." takes care of the land made vacant But in October congress ratified the covenants hy withdrawal of wheat, hut It preand the next month I.aussat arrived In New Orleans to assume authority over that cl'y and sents a competitor for both wheat Louisiana Territory, preliminary to turning both and corn. Or, If the vacant land is turned over to their new owners. The Spanish flag came to grass, you at once start live down and the French Tricolor took its place, to stay there for only 20 days, then to give way stock industry expanding there and She government la trying to hold forever to the Stars and Stripes. $ by Western Newspaper Union. pedes belonging to the calflah group and moro Ilian 00 spedca rloady allied lo the carp. Soma of the catfish run well up to all feet The tiger fifth la one of the mod voracious Pah In the world, equipped with powerful Fine Sport Afforded Angler Jaw a and armed with formidable teeth oufalde lie mouth. The tiger in African River. fih la abla to bile tn two heavy lead-er- a of Iron or copper wire and will A new sport ba risen tn Africa, more thrilling than the killing of orien break the strongest three Inch teel hooka New York World dangerous wild beasts. a It Is tbe pursuit of tbe huge, and Incredibly swift fish found In tbe great rlvm hundred of miles Natwra's Atjsilainl from the sea. While hot water bottle and auto who hate sluin lions, mobile Urea are made from rubber Fportsmen the dreaded rape biiffuloea, elephants produced In many parte of the world, and rhinoceroses say that the bag- use of the latex of the rubber tree ging of these beast doe not com- wu well known to the Amazonian Inpare with the excitement of fighting dian long before the time of Orel-hua gigantic fish In these wild rltera. the find while man to navigate Tbe thrill of a llon'a charge la tho Amazon, according to Doctor aoon over, one way or another, but DeDublgren, fatnona ethnologist. the thrill of fighting a huge, leapspite the fact that rubber la In no ing fish that ran Jump frutu the sense a food. Its Importance to manwater like a kangaroo, and whose kind Is so great that It deserve mouth la lined with aometlilng akin honorable mention among the many to sheet Iron, may last for hours. vegetable products which were Some of the great African fishes have lo the Old world prior to the teoih like wolves and ran bite or discovery of America by Columbus twlat In two the heaviest Iron or cop "The rubber tree win discovered per wire leaders. They tear fish along the Amazon,' slates Doctor weighing two or three pound from Dublgren, but la little grown there the hook and often break strong today. It acorns poetic justice that hooks, limy ran breast the swiftest Smith America, having lost 'rubber, torrent as though It were a millpond. gained through Introduction of the Africa seem to have more large coffee tree from Europe. Coffee has savage animals than any other conn become the full equal of rubber la try In the world, and the fish are no economic Importance." exception. When the river go dry In spot the great fish congregate In deep pools. They soon clean out all the smaller fish. When a bait la thrown Into tbe pool they will make tbe WHtcr boll Coughs trying to seize tbe hook, A small Persistent coughs and cold lead to animal, which enters (be pool, will serious trouble, ion can atop them now Immediately be torn to pieces, for with Oromuluon,an emulsified creosote dome of the Afrlran river fishes, parthat is plnasant to take, OromuLdon is a the terrible are actiger fish, ticularly new medical discovery with closely related to tbe tnRn eating tion; it soothe and heals the inflamed membrane and inhibit germ growth. piranha, which tbe late Iresldent (.If all known drugs, erooaoto is recogTheodore Roosevelt described In hi nized by hih medical authorities as on Recount of his Journey to the Itlyer of the greatest healing agencies for perof Doubt In the wilds of Brazil. sistent coughs and colds and other forma Though tbe Brazilian fish la not nearof throat trouble. Crcomulsion contains, ly so large as Its African cousin, It in addition to creosote, oilier healing deIs frenzied by the scent of blond, and ments which soot be and heal the infocted will tear even an ox to pieces If membranes and stop the irritation and Inblood Is drawn front (he creature. flammation, wlulo the creosote goes on to The Inrgesf fish In Hie African the stomach, is al wot bed into tlie blood, and attacks tbe seat of tbe troulda, rivers I the glganlle Nile perch, CreomuLion is guaranteed satisfactory which Is not a perch at all but a rep in tbe treatment of persistent coughs and resenlntlve of the nrcan hns family. colds, bronchial asthma, bronchitis, and This gigantic fish has been known is excellent for building up tha system to weigh 200 pound. It Is after colds or flu. Your own druggist is tremendously slrong and authorized to refund your money on tba active and delicious eating. spot if your cough or cold is no reIn the Nile system are almost 800 lieved by Crcomulsion. (adv.) NILE FISH PUT UP REAL EIGHT . down live umk production no that who devote their land to live Mock will get a fair return. Such la the atory all through the list. It d la not eas y, and I think any person will admit tt. No professor, however learned, la go- tho ing to solve that problem without careful thought and exceedingly cautloua moves. Admitting my own Inability to forecast the result ami an equal lark of rapacity to And anyone who bus suggested tbe answer, I cannot refrain from railing attention to one ixiaslblllty ; the new deal baa set out Uion a policy that cannot avoid revlwlon of our entire economic M nature and, It now It nmy lead even to a resettlement of the United Stales, That means, of rourae, that folks who devote their live to live stock raising will hnve to move to the area where they ran do that, and the com growers will have to get Into that hulllwhk, or aome such new alignment. I rnnfraa I do not know what drastic change ran he accomplished without dlshwatlng the lives anI the liopea of farmer, a decidedly Interestbut to mo It ing question over which to ponder as (ho long winter nights wear on. 1 The country still seems to be trying to figure out what was the e cause of tbe e Big cent drastic 0 r J reorganization. Tbe change came so quhkly and without any warning note that It was a move amounting to lightning from a clear sky. And now the i.liservera here aro trylqg to figure out Its meaning In the fullest aense. I watched the country's leading closely for several days nevvspniier after the President announced that Secretary Wood in was going on a long leave of absence In search of health, that Dean AchcRon wag resigning as undersecretary, and that Henry Morgenthau, Jr., was being moved over as undersecretary of the treasury, from the post of governor of the farm credit administration. Being undersecretary, he Immediately became acting secretary when Mr. Woodln left for Arizona In hla search for health. The newspapers were at wide variance on their views. Some of them held, editorially and In their news columns, that Inflationists had taken the treasury under their wing and that we were headed straight Into the grievous mistake that Germany made on her currency. Others took the position that Mr. Woodln was not a "yes" man and that Mr. Acheson was not In sympathy with the various maneuvers to which Mr. Roosevelt was lending his support, and that the President simply cleaned house. Whatever the reason was. It remains as much of a secret as ever. The one thing upon which Washington observers seem to ngree and tbe feeling was reflected In many large newspapers, was that Mr. Mr. Acheson was the goat." Roosevelt wanted Mr. Morgenthau in the treasury and wanted him to run the place while Mr. Woodin was away, nnd the only way to accomplish it was to get rid of Mr. Acheson. That certainly happeneff. The President, In announcing the changes, said it was necessary to have a man of more experience In the treasury than Mr. Acheson since Mr. Woodin was going to be absent. treaa-Puxzl- The President Is seeking to develthe government's work relief program so that Make Millionslt will bo operaon lts most 1,IK tor Jobs extensive scale coincident with what Is logically expected to be the peak of unemployment this winter. His program to add $400,000,000 to the public works funds and take Idle persons off the relief rolls for those Jobs Is well under way. It no donbt will make several million jobs available for a short time at least. It is the Presidents thought that where persons have been on relief rolls, they will gladly take a Job and work regularly If they are paid a little more than the relief doles they were receiving. He contends that people prefer work generally to being fed on a charity basis. And as far as I can learn, no one disputes the Idea. Certainly, the person who Is working and Is being paid for It regains which so many times Is lost when charitable organizations have to care for him and his family. There Is one aspect of the program for making work, however, that seems to have been generally overlooked. The proposition conwide development of templates roads nnd highways in all parts of the nation. State road supervisors are going to make and. indeed, are now making, plans and listing projects In the numerous counties where work of a worthwhile nature can be done. This plan places the Jobs close to the source of need, right In the locality where men are out of jobs. sar-ax- One Sure Way to End and Coldj two-fol- A Quicker Way To Ease Headaches 2 BEFORE THE. DINNER. 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