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Show HOKE AT BAT. p SENATOR HOKUS SMITH, of Georgia, has shown the .va ' Trade Board the political expediency of taking off the exportvreff striction on cotton, probably with a view to loading up Germany' l with this commodity as soon as little matters with regard to the latej m unpleasantness in Europe are smoothed over to the satisfaction of' both groups of belligerents. Hoke is the best ambassador King Cotj, v ton ever sent to the National Capital. He is the one, it will be re ,, membered, who raised such a fog when the English were holding up' shipments of cotton to Germany, before Mr. "Wilson was gently bu.t" ' j firmly urged into the war against the Hun. But Hoke had no partic. 1 " ular comment to make when the Huns blew the Lusitania to king-; dom come. His attitude, as we remember, was that Americans whol traveled on the seas while the war was on were to blame for any consequences of their foolhardiness, but that every bale Qf pixie down was sacrosanct. Incidentally let it be remarked that goyejrjnl ment regulation of wheat and other western and northern prodc will continue, both as to price and as to destination. 'F'flkSi |