Show PLAN FUTURE PEACE STATE department SEEKS TO PREVENT TRO TROUBLES UiLES IN COUNTRIES TO THE SOUTH TO WEIGH BARRETTS IDEA government official officials are to Arras arrange ge some plan of concerted action to prevent war among our NeIgh neighbors bora oy by GEORGE CLINTON washington whilo while it may bo be too lato late to bo be of 0 service la in saving the Lien acing mexican situa situation Uon tho the od om bials of at the state department aro are studying a plan by menus of which it may ay be possible to prevent troubles of like kind la the future the plan which the officials presumably with the sanction of tho the administration have under tudy study ie is ono one which was ta suggested ug during tho the roosevelt ad adain admin min tra tion but to which no atten attention was paid during tho tatt taft time it Is possible and it may not be wounding to democratic pride to say it Is probable that the washington have been spurred to tho the study of the new now means of keeping turbulent spanish american republics republic under control by the reports of the sympathetic tion and enthusiastic reception which has been given in great south american countries to recent words of theodore roosevelt who has been talking to tho the S spanish pant sham sh am americans on various ocono mio and political subjects recently john barrott barrett director general of at the pan american union who knows how all tho the diplomats diplo of al all tho the south and central american coun tries feel on most political subjects suggested that counsel bo be taken with tho more powerful governments to the 1 bouth of us with a view to concerted action which night might have potent influx enco in settling tho the present mexican difficulty looking to tho the future mr barretts Barrot tB suggestion of course went far beyond tho the present mexican trouble and was intended as a advice which if it followed might prevent such troubles in the future no attention allon tion was paid to the director general for some little time for a man with an idea sometimes has a hard time getting a bearing hearing jt it seems now however howver that attention is to be paid to what mr barrett has said and his suggestion will bo be allowed to lose nothing of ita its force with democracy because it happens to bo be a kindred suggestion to one made a long while ago by theodore roosevelt only on one occasion of any note has abil th united states government asked south and central american governments to use their moral suasion to prevent trouble among their I 1 neighbors A f few ew years ago when hostilities were threatened threat oneo between honduras and nicaragua mexico was requested by the united states to ask the be belligerents s to remember their duty to each and to the tho rest of america mexico then under a different leader than it is today was proud C cf the mission given into its hands bands it acted and honduras and nicaragua kissed and made up last fall the washington dispatches told of the interest that congress was showing in what theodore roosevelt said ct at c t rio 10 lo do janeiro concerning the participation of central and south american countries in the work of carrying out the monroe doctrine long xong before he be talked to the brazil ians lans and when ho he was president of the united states mr roosevelt sent his secretary of state ellhu root to tho the spanish american countries to talk to them along lines similar to those which he Is now following himself solve many problems the matters concerning which mr roosevelt as president and later as traveler and mr root as secretary of state spoke to the central and south americans concerned themselves almost wholly with the monroe doctrine but afterward mr root in correspondence with tho the stronger countries of the south suggested that concerted action between the united states and the countries addressed might solve abny any problems and keep tho the peace when war was threatened the roosevelt Rooseve root oot suggestion was known as the monitor nat nation lons plan and the matter was thoroughly discussed with representatives of the stable latin american countries conn tries under the talt administration this moril monitor tor nation plan was forgotten at no time during the trouble vata mexico has there been shown any ula ais on the part of the administration or the state department to ask brazil argentine chile or any ober oher south american country to aid tho united stal states les in its attempts to straighten out things in mexico john barrens barretts suggestion of some little time sea vas ignored at ferst but now it Is in likely to r receive belvo attention it is possible that the government officials may find some means to make at it of service at the present time they tire anxious to find a way out ot at tho the mexican trott blo ble without intervention and it ie is con can colv ablo that out ot of tho the director gen eral a in tho the pan ilan american build ing has como tho the bint hint of at a method of relief and release legislation for women there haa has juet just gono gone into effect in tho the district of columbia an eight hour law for working women no broman in this district hereafter unless engaged in dome donie stio perylee fer vico is 1 to bo be allowed to work longer than eight bourn a day and ebe she must rest tor for ono one full day each week with a tev few months congress will add to thia this legislation a minimum rago wage law which will be effective effect lye in tho the dietrict district of columbia and which shall apply to women workers wor kere today nearly all the senators pe natora and representatives aro are trying to curry favor with womankind woman kind in to offset the possible political results of a majority of tho the members mem bore antagonism to woman suffrage when the eight elgh hour thour law tor for women was first introduced into congress senator la folletto Fol lotto who was its chief sponsor found little sympathy with bis his efforts A change came recently in tho the attitude ot of thop 3 who stood in opposition tho the adoption of tho the constitutional amendment providing for tho the election of senators by a direct vote of the people it Is said cald had much to do with the change women can vote in a good many states of the union in tho the district of columbia there Is what Is known as the consumers consumer s league ou tho the advisory board are such well known men and women as william C redfield secretary of commerce judge julian W mack black miss julia C lathrop and mrs ellen spencer mussey on its executive committee aro are miss constance D leupp and mrs harvey W wiley it was due to tho the efforts of the league that the bill limiting mark ork to eight hours six days in a week was passed the league will now undertake to secure the passage of a minimum wage law and probably it will succeed in its efforts talked of cutting wages tho the eight hour law has been in operation only a few days some of tho the employers of tho the district took to the new order of things gracefully adjusted their establishments to meet its requirements and said never a word about cutting wages mages other employers growled grouted talked about the invasion of the held field of private lightb and talked openly about cutt laoc wages aro are wages being cut in tho the district of columbia Colu rabia because women are not to be compelled to toll ten ton or twelve hours each day as was the case in many instances in the past not a bit of it As soon as the members of the consumers league heard from women employed emp loyes that they N were ere in danger of losing enough of their wages to make proper living hard it if not impossible the members of the league became active word of active intention also came from some of the leading members of congress and the message was that it wages were not maintained at a proper level a minimum wage law would be passed at once and there was a eort vort of a grim suggestion that the minimum might not be t too to much of a minimum lawmakers are weary congress is tired it ria rias been at its work with very few intervals for rest for a good deal over a year then there aro in tho the present congress men who have served through many congresses and so it is that all of the tho old members have boon hard bard at it in a legislative way with few breaks ever since the beginning of at the taft administration from that time to this there has been an extra session of congress every short session year there is a listlessness in both houses on an all subjects except of courso course mexico which keeps men keyed up to a high pitch while it Is under discussion antitrust anil trust legisla tion has failed to arouse much interest it ts is evident that some members of the dominant party think it is not drastic enough and others think that it is too drastic they know nothing definitely except that it will not be possible to tell what the bills will do to business until net 11 they have been tried out in the iram of law hero here and there in unexpected place places 11 I 1 the tha finate the democrats are finding opposition to this feature and that feature of the aar adr administrations antitrust measures tho party leaders in the senate are slowly and unwillingly coming to the belief that if tho the fave five brother bills aro are to be put through in tho the form in which mr wilson wishes it will be necessary to pass them under tho the dictation of a caucus tho bills bavo have been separated and have been ivan 1 for consideration into the care of two committees of the house and two committees of at the senate judiciary and interstate commerce the bearings hearings are being conducted in the most leisurely way no bombs are bursting in the presence of witnesses committeemen and onlookers and tho the proceedings generally are loveral veral tonea below the humdrum bum drum Langl languid ild inquirers are told that the antitrust anti trust bills are going through when oh before long and anet con can are erece will wui beet away early |