Show FOOTPRINTS IN FORBIDDEN OR PASTURES SHOW SENATOR STILL ROAMS ROA tS ALONE ALO E Eny BY sly RODNEY ROD EY NEA Service Writer WASHINGTON Oct 6 Hand G.-Hand- Hand Handsome some Henrik the senator from Irons Minnesota still sUIl seems to b be his own man If IC l he can keep kerp it up tiP through the next session of 01 congress he ho will wUl at least be able to enter his campaign for re election next year with a clear conscience He will also flabbergast many of the local cynics who thought that they already had witnessed the first act of o a drama of 01 Intrigue en entitled en- en entitled entitled titled The Seduction of Since he began to ro be regarded more or less accurately as the man who ho would control the next senate nate by virtue of ot being a lone Labor Farmer ito itc in among an equally divided as assortment as- as assortment assortment of ot Republicans and Demo Demo- Democrats crata cra great fear held for soul Tremendous social and political pressure had been brought to bear ar upon his stalwart frame It was gen gen- generally generally generally agreed with the object of ot re relieving re- re relievIng relieving lieving him of or his Ws burden of progress- progress progressIvism progressIvism of which had plenty The capital had seen s n many other bright promising young men risen weaned away from Irons progressivism Into lives of ot regularity and desuetude and it re required re- re reQuired required little imagination to picture turning coat that also also that is isIf Is- Is IsI isif If I one didn't know knew The Idea was as that was to be se seduced so- so seduced by flapjacks social honors and promises of 01 nn an easy iY re reelection I Well Vell r It may be bt that will accept ac some n Republican e help next No No- November I vember vemb r and It may be that he will help the Republicans organize e the next I senate That wouldn't be the same I because Minnesota has I Ionly only a half hall dozen Democrats and as Republican votes helped elect him five years ago he would serve neither his constituency nor llor himself by turning Democrat The point Is that the effort to make a a. gentle innocuous conservative out of this Minnesota progressive has to date been as successful as an attempt to tame a Texas st steer er by pouring turpentine on Its tall tail t ll furnished a most pain pain- painful painful ful moment for his Isis would would-be seducers ers era v Ien icis President made his peculiar choose announcement ow al Here was an opportunity for a cau cau- cautious cautious cautious to say something quite perfunctory and end harmless Instead he Indulged In the most shocking hocking com corn comment comment ment bout about the ineffectiveness of o cow cow- cowboy cowboy cowboy boy pants against embattled farmers Some of the more aroused critics of o the Kellogg NIcaraguan Nicaragua policy felt that hadn't exerted himself to get at the truth during his foreign relation subcommittees subcommittee's hearings last spring but In an Issue of the magazine Current Affairs has come to bat with such uch a terrific clout at a t the ball that the cynics who held that t had promised to soft- soft pedal In return for other ether promises are again left holc hol g the bag The senator has ploughed back baek Into the records to give a picture of oJ what hat he calls Dollar Diplomacy In Latin America supplementing this with what he ise learned on the foreign re re- re relations lations committee and aud during his re recent re- re recent recent cent visit to tc Haiti He Intimates that the keynote of our Latin American policy lies In William Ho Ito rd Tafts Taft's statement of o It as BS providing pro for Intervention to secure for our merchants and our capitalists lIsts opp opp- unity for profitable investments Republican lions he lie finds have perverted the Monroe doctrine until It has become an Instrument of o conquest But Wil Wll- Wilson VIlson son also did everything to sustain this very ery policy We Vc are arc holding them under a a. form lorns of o mIly milLy and financial die dic says saS of or the Latin American republics Especially with reference to Haiti he tells of national congresses dissolved by American n n- les nes of elections and plebiscites dictated by American bay bay- bayonets bayonets of o te financial con con- conditions conditions Imposed upon sovereign w republics republics lies and other items Ilem of ioe oe work ind Bel-ind the tho Kellogg Coolidge Nica- Nica Nicaraguan p sicy Is says ss's n a shadow of financial Intrigue and im im- imposition im- im imposition position I so e c that American t public opinion P iO would instinctively i t c re repudiate re- re repudiate It if 11 the facts were widely known no Any well informed American citi clU- citizen clUzen zen is now aware that our present Latin-American Latin policy polley is frankly one cf d economic aggression Involving In po po- political political po- po dictatorship ds d's c blast is welt uell document document- documented ed Cd and he winds up by casting serious doubt on Use tIle commercial wisdom of o our policy by presenting figures to show that the eight American LaUn republics north of Panama spent 57 less for American goods in 1926 than In 1925 InS InS-a. a decrease of 14 H per cent Some folks will disagree with Ship- Ship stead but no one will wilt disagree with Ith the suggestion that he has not been lured Into the fold with a a. lump of o sugar and made to say cay nice things about the administration |