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Show THE CITIZEN companies had disregarded our restriction regulations and Iihip more than the allotted quota under the law from the I nations represented. The fact that they were admitted in f the restriction law is bound to create a belief in the minds immigrants that all our laws are elastic and may be disregarded npunity. Either our restrictive immigration law and our con-ntin- al prohibition law, mean what they say or they will soon ; of ho more force and effect than mere scraps of paper, ext another aspect of the prohibition question centers around nc;ent indictment of a former secretary to Governor Whitman :enjr. York state in a $10,000,000 rum plot; also the interception tl.00,000 worth of forged and counterfeited liquor permits a in a nation-wid- e relays-businesconspiracy to defraud the which proves conclusively that a gigantic booze inis operating in the country and is entrenched behind fabulous fed-tinivernm- ent ' th 5 nation as to its conduct toward the powers signatory thereto. It does not bind us to protect them with our troops and our navy, or, for that matter, any other nation. The only moral obligation imposed is to sit down and confer, man to man, in event any situation arises threatening the status quo of the Pacific. It appeals as sound sense, whereas the league would have practically made this country a mandated section for European and Asiatic powers to direct and quarrel over. It is an agreement that guarantees peace without needless expenditure, whereas the league would have forced us to arm to the teeth and fight at the drop of the hat for the integrity or loreign nations and when a foreign cabal dropped the hat, at that. It appears to be the difference between good business and bad business ; between wisdom and folly. But the new treaty will be subjected to careful scrutiny by the senate and when it comes down from that body it will be absolutely void of anything that may lead to foreign for entanglements or bear any resemblance to the the world, contemplated by the Wilson league super-governme- nt suparently the home brew industry and the cellar still are but cn the bucket compared to the wholesale plan on which this tlitwide booze combine operates. Within the last four months hor permits that have disappeared from the New York office 67 would represent a conservative value of $40,000,000 in liquor f tiwals. Canadian liquor importations for the year 1920 totaled XX). For 1921 they were valued at more than $33,000,000. It tinted that comparatively a small portion of this liquor was for suronsumption and that the vast part of it was smuggled into iksintry by rum runners and distributed by bootleggers, ichdation of law on this scale is not individual, like The average emn of the prohibition law by foreigners and others, but it is productive of contempt for all laws and is even more grave niltie fact that it shows an organized attempt to ignor the law. 1 LS . to many tha,t the government is merely engaged in sup-l- g a profitable business and not in apprehending persons and )Urthat not alone defy this particular law but are fast becoming ptuous of all law. 0;als NATIONAL FIRE LOSS. Chinese philosophy teaches that what is burned is lost forever; hence the Chniaman burns as little fuel as possible and goes to bed to keep warm. There are few conflagrations in China. American fire losses the past five years would have paid for the Panama canal. The losses paid by insurance companies would have built 285,000 new homes valued at $5,000 each. They would have built macadam roads costing $20,000 a mile three times around the globe. In ten years the nation spent $914,000,000 a year for new buildings and burned $242,000,000. In 1920 the death rate traceable to fires was 15,219 and 17,641 people were seriously injured. It costs more than a million dollars a day to maintain fire departments; and while 15,000,000 people occupy temporary homes, approximately 100 houses burn down hours. The per capita loss by fires, many of which every twenty-fou- r are considered preventable, is said to be $4.80 for an estimated popu-la t ion of 105, 000", 000. s TREATY VERSUS LEAGUE. the light of events now transpiring at Washington where the dir1Val powers of the world are in conference, endeavoring to int'tual grounds on which to base a sane limitation of war phara-- t 11a and .also to frame a treaty of amity and justice to guide ture relations in the Far East, it would be amusing, were it i l:emely disgusting, to read the frantic diatribes directed against sotrit Harding and Secretary Hughes, by certain Democratic wi'because the arms conference promises to accomplish t; in the way of promoting the peace of the world. is doing these things which the now decadent League of tot: failed to do and at the same time our confrees are refusing s diinto the pit of international entanglements, into which the on vould have plunged the nation, President Harding and his bnference aids are being mercilessly excoriated. lu this, of course, is the sheerest bunkum aimed to rehabilitate thredited and disowned Wilson league. But it fails utterly to in isy with the great American public. What is contemplated al1 agreement with the naval powers gives us more than the attaver pretended to give us and which at the same time exempts ntV the tremendous burdens which France and England quietly jonto our shoulders through the bamboozling of our repre-i- d ves at Versailles, and which our patriotic senate refused to 1)11 some-biingib- le Be-on- I i.cii the chief differences in the new treaty and the League of Ltattpact lies in the fact that there is nothing in the treaty which lureign nations to declare war and force us to send troops to (1 botest parts of the world to protect the integrity of nations in Mis country has no earthly interest. The league did all of that, y blither does the United States surrender its right to maintain a v i i of - ,i rdye tariff or direct immigration, which would have been de-pn-n- der the Wilson pact. ;iva held agreement under the present arrangement simply binds the ROBBING PETER TO PAY PAUL. Argument advanced in favor of government, state and municipal bonds are predicated upon the belief that in this manner money is obtained more easily and cheaply for public works. The contention is, no doubt, true ; but for every dollar thus obtained private industry which keeps the wheels of commerce turning and our millions of workers employed, when seeking money, must pay twice as much to make up the tax lost on the billions of wealth represented in these securities and now escaping all forms of taxation. Tax exempt securities aggregate close to thirty millions and arc said to be increasing at the alarming rate of one billion dollars every year. The people are paying the bill incurred because of these tax exempt bonds, in increased commodity prices and higher tax levies. Tax exempt securities are a direct detriment to starting new enterprises and are handicapping normal industrial growth as they absorb the bulk of surplus funds which would otherwise seek commercial channels for investment. nun-taxab- le Friends of the bill appropriating $20,000.00 for the relief of the Russian famine sufferers based their action on the general welfare clause of the constitution. The position was ridiculed by opponents of the measure, who facteiously asked if the framers of the constitution had in mind the general welfare of the United States or Russia, when they wrote that clause. This country should be thankful that it is still a free nation and able to succor the famine stricken hordes of Bolsheviki land. If those who stood in the wav of the gift to save the Russians had had their way, we would now have been doing business under a with an eight to one ratio against us in the supreme council. Then perhaps we should have been ordered to send troops to Russia to bayonet the starving instead of feeding them. super-governme- nt, |