Evening Star Newspaper, March 7, 1926, Page 45

EDITO NATIONAL PROBLEMS SPECIAL FEATUPRES Part 2—14 Pages RIAL PAGE WASHINGTON, D. C, CONSTITUTION AS ISSUE OF 2 NEW PARTIES SEEN Little More Than Names Mark Differ- ence of Present Political Divisions. Both Seeking Live Platforms. KENNEDY. | political parties and Democratic) I the two b (Republican getting t Is this for of the conntry” Whither are tending These questic ne mere fir clouded eansing ers and ng voters earnestly tol Fr tlons of the divi parties greatest can deleg present precedente uniting on heard scarcely taritf, with congres cominz on For the the Itep platiorms ‘ax lik 1t har to tell them years the t outstanding. dominant hetween Democrats and Republi Bt now the tariff is heine detern: principles rathe hest interests based while on in-| s are side ruminatio in pipe smoke. They ave| deen concern to party lead- thoughtful. forward-look- The heinz discussed | conferences at the Caps in immemorial the ques ind tariff have heen hetween the time, tion line taxing two | the | governinz people but in the n the un parties trust a se to Cong v we have spectacle of both tax bill, and we have a murmur about t sional primaries i soon fast quarter diean and Democratic been zrowing he that now party chieftains Throuzhout the n has been the | century | party t have © two peas.” so even for VIfE proble on politicdl policies Differ Only in me. So we find rewnblicans today differ ne all fundamentals. on basic principles, from the Democrats —and vice ver Republicans and Democrats differ now in name only and the names themselves are ot exart The claim Republicans Pemaocratic name vou mas ers—swallowinz, tlon 1s not going terests of thi not at o heing made that the | “swallowed the But whatever the fusing proc- disintegra- the result in- have party.” eall merger weld the best Nation. The first and most immedinte result would be to centralize practically all of the law- making power of Congress in iwo or | three ulirly, ap prop md means. | Even thout evenly split parties there he of comment that <ince the appropriations com- mittee has the final say ahout appro- tions, there is little wthority 1 ather lezislative wnon the ppropria n ittees—part nd wa the Honse the two creat deal with het . real a4 in the major which pass 1ithorizi appropriations not arant the country there is a that this country under i fwo-party institutions and and ple better 4 stronz recentl 1 com- news ronimit Whetant hich the mittor v may izhm ses 1 and princinles are the pe trer il prozre cvstem onmndation the minority heen emphasized ment in many papers of the its safer interesis when ix has editori; lesadin party in the mntry K g Issues, seen by and it ix N the thoughirul ' situation i man viewed ax terests of pblicist< all for the hest in country—in fact a dangerous situation. Both parties are alive to the danger and stirring around to find ontstanding issues for | a campaign that will drive the parties apart again Ts history Flere 1s the concern Something had In this he ern poli Tael separate period wore that parties viduals not the itself? causes about to backgronnd repeat that 100 ry like vears ago we ealled n for to what is feniing disiniezrated upon which Duri that <aid that there 1 parties extant, and was a merging of former an aggregation of indi were actuated almost entirely consideration of what they @ emed to he for the hest in terest: of the country That condition, however, could not eontlnue In a democratic republie | whera responsible party government was found to be necessary in order | that there ht he the late Speaker 10 say nascent majority and virile minority.” So with dvent of Jackson's admin fstration partisan polities was re vived The Democratic party was vitaliz and party struggles for | political supremacy hes me bitte | more bitter even than it had heen in the davs of the Federal and Jefferson. an parties That partisanship and the line of | cleavage was not sectional, for with | the rezeneration of partisan issues | was horn the Whig party. composed | of men of ali sections of the country. | Such alition resulted in the election hy the House of Represent atives of John Quiney Adams. when the electoral college had falled to elect, by the throwing of the Clay strensth o Adams. would hardly be | fmagined or repeated. It was one | of the effects. the cause of which was the scrambling of political parties and its immediate resultant effect was the return to the party system. on rties disagy it might he hGimalite there 1 who hy m! ark the former i i ies Aroused. ! that had long azain aroused Animosi Animosities dormant were an inocenous state. under son we | took on & new life and he hecame a | popular idol and dictat The people | had feared the power of the presi- | deney. and had put the elamps on our Presidents—hut they tired f that wearied of the impotency of the head of the Nation They did not want sacme methods any longer, and Jackson was welcomed a strong individualist Chief Executive, who | would exercise wonderful will power | and dominion over the people of w hun” he was titular head, and he'd brook | no interference with his prerogatives by Conzress Now we have come it would seem as if history is repeat inz where there are no real sconomic differences between the tw great political parties, in both of which are found elements incongru- ous to the original genius of the parties. when they clashed in many memorable campaigns. Heretofore when issues seemed to be lacking hoth parties have had re course to the tariff the natural dividing line. and upon that issue they'd buckie on their armor and fisht it out at the polls. But it has been so lonz sine this question was a real issue that veral zenerations have come upon the scene “that know not Joseph.” So the old slogans fail to Arouse the interest that they formerly did. Moreover, first hy the appointment of a tariff hoard to ad- Iain | From | to days where itself. | of | Y FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE, Capitol Hill, now mainly at the Di ing Grange stateme “The executive nge recognizes t which agi velief legislation is fronted by the fact tions and badly divided Many me; URRENT events on the scene of an aggressive, organized drive to ram adical farm legisiation through Congress, present one of the most amazing situations in recent I The House of Represen tives, the object of the drive's attack, is being stormed by m Midwest farm politicians purporting to speak in the name of American agriculture whole. Wit the past few days it has become ap. ent that the “Committee of 22, from 11 corn-belt States, is utterly without a mandate to speak for the farmer hody of the country. The Dickinson price-fixing bill. which the Midwester fomenting, has the support of some of the officials of the American Farm Bureau Federation and a group of smaller allied organizations. But the biggest agricultural organization in the United States, the National Grange, has publicly clined to indorse the Dickinson hill Norx the large and powerful Farm Union on record in its favor. At nuary meeting, in Washington, the nation-wide National Coun cil of Farmers' Cooperative Marketing Asso. ciations gave every evidence of hostility to the Dickinson proposition * vise the DPresident changing conditions, appointment of a T and adoption of the tariff.” this subject the same opportunity division as formerly. While, under the making of tariff must prerozative of Congress. and there- fore subject to political mutations. economically it has been removed. at least in the minds of the people, as a bone of contention. Old Labor Appeal Gone. Nor does the old Republican slogin protection of American 1al American industry and American farmers any longer serve as a rally: | ing crv. This is equally triue of the | Democratic talisman of a “tariff for | revenue only,” or tariff for revenue | with incidental protection American | skilled labor through organization | feels itsell amply able to fight is | v battles and (ke care of itself | without artificial props | labor 1o responds to the ap- | peal as it the old days when | it nerve was touched by the charze that the tariff in the | lastU anulysis meant the wage en- ! velone American tected by was not produet came of changed and then by and | political ory the Riht ue a of 2 sures s i affords political no longer on as a mittee cannot indor Constitution, the so-called always be * National G the lar The but by the country pared to i American Farm the officers of whis son hill, has only The Farmers’ Farm Burean's me; corn helt, which 1t of the Des Moines 1 rey v hoomers are de has gone <upy the vy 1 ton who h farmine tural leader In pitlence with the coeted for tarm “The Americi aid b, Atkeson to 1o have them solve nd even professi hi had their control hy the er's trouble is that . * K probably uy nd longer did nockethook it m ix this od farm I furrn ted on authority that within the ranks done holds back Washington, that when unmistakably undoubtedly all American support will But the Dickinson hill drive, authorities already Tt can be s gaping breach iculture that lied stated o an Eenuine his can the ax legislation at | with positiveness ther™ sents the elements of congressional . t on somethi that of the ture, < get repr hest further onr fmmigration laws enough 1o keep out thel of foreign labor, but it be- necessary to keep out foreizn Tahor itself from competition with <killed and comparatively high-paid domestic lat Hence. we find that the tariff ques- tion, so prolific a source of partisan- ship. has lost much of its savor and charm—and what else have we 1 which politieal parties might divid The question of taxation. or its re duction. has just heen removed from the political arena by the non-par tisan hill ssed with practical unanimity by Congres: Upon the <ubject of ee in zovernmental expenditures find the platforms of all political parties proclaim for retrenchment in expenditures and for # businesslike hudget The enr veney. which at different times in our VU'l‘URE TRADE DEVELOPMENT HOLD mooted questions. The Federal re ‘“l(l? ])lfl'l =6 € ac h e ol any Ars 5 A . ~ St the vesul of many venr<t 1925 Reveal Favorable Trade Balance Despite En hanced Price of Certain Commodities. labor ix pro- | opinion azricul forth which all know i doomed, glaring hlight the fact emanating from the corn helt and,far removed from the e e coming. initiated has turned that the is regional and sectional ymanding general farm approval, The National Grange. with close to 1,000,000 members scattered thronghout 33 States, almost exclusively in the North, Fast and West, has st forth its attitude on pending relief measures. Though not specifically named, it is a <en on seheme men zencv. Ton many tinkering are not knowledge hey real only Some of either dizement which they st and the perfecting amendments to that act, have placed securely upon a sound basis with respect to all our ecirenlating medinm and its distribution | | | | trade. tin to first place in onr import plicing Burope—and coffee, 1 hides and leather. {inereases, in turn. are due sihle rtificial - covernmental tions directed azainst of the United & 1es, The experiences of 1325, By e AULIUS K Serambling of Parties, 1 Siaies Vs Doaati hall divide men and political affiliation and i animosities, other predilections, mostly What then women in th enzender than natural hevited, for one party This question is not easy but in the vista of many men And women in and out gress the time is rapidly approaching, it hae not already come. when par nship will be revived by the scram. blirg of present-day par and then reorganization into two other great po agencies, one including within | membership the mrervative ele-! ment and the other embracing the maoderately radical elements, : Such parties would not be sectional The line of cleavage would he diagc vather than horizontal. In Cong toaay may be found men of the ) and men of the South who actual harmony with respect to the fundamental principles of govern ment as they understand them to be embodied in the Constitution. These men feel that late practices, for which hoth political parties are in part re-| sponsible, have ed us far away | from the old ship's moorinzs and into | danzerous shoals and rocks, away ot of our se - shoals and With the leadinz of the world headed toward gre: stability and good will, we have much to hope for vezirds our further trade d Although Burope is o competitor, she ignificant to us as o best cu taking over 30 per cent of our total Lexports. Anything that improves her e e purchasing power, therefore, aids | . need from abroad at materially our sales to her, Which|pijeps There has developed in a n totaled over $2.600,000.000 of WREAL | hopr of countries a tendency to impe cotton, tobacco, and nu-artificial restrictions i order faa last year hance the price which must e the by the United States, | hrsic industries, January : Great Britain reveal strongl able financial factors in currvent fal ditions, with every prospect of 2 most | Future Dictators vigorous drive for expansion of | forelgn trade. High marks for| French industrial output continue to| be recorded in various lines. General business actlvity is indicated by the nations resty or | to answer. thinking of Con velopment. strongest is ompetitive ahility of the ates in the export wphasize the necessity for givi fen copper m its ) os he pa in her < from spite depressi repor Conyii 1 favor f . ess orth | are in| Every town and village in Italy, and industrialists ilous In view of the Wl situation and the lahor and transpor are | ture dictatiors. | The way to suceess in the | Al aspirin Farinaeci weh his business men ill extremely indofinite finar rise of material, tion costs End of In Germany ohservers seems of the depression les tions hosse h ther rocks npon 2 Wneomprominising word and deed in his o In any It hunch at the hear a di Near, veliable the end not far nations have o sther hand. there 1 who are representative of A widespread feeling in the country in | favor of giving Congress greater pow- ers, In favor of more centralization of | zovernment and less regard for our SHERE e the anticipated Increase n agricultural These men argue that State lines are| lahor employment. e fa m;“’m broken down. that they are more theo- | financial position _of |(|hn" el retical than actual and that transpor- | government and industrial expan@on tation and other modern facilities have | has progressed steadily, a& a annihilated space and there has|of economic stability. heen already such close union and co-| General optimism preva operation between the Federal Gov-|gard to our South Americ ernment and the States in respeet to|Cuba and Mexico. however . <o many matters which in their judg-|be the more doubtful spots on |)m ment have proved heneficial that they in American trade map -in the would still further expand the powers | case The former on aeccount of of the National Government, disclaim. | the sugar de 1 and in the lat- ing at the same time that they are es-|ter hecause of continued political tn- tablishing State socialism, ceptalnties. O Yar Eastern field Japanese conditions are improving rapidly. An optimistic undertone prevails in China. Ghvernment finances in India are cound and public improvements are to pieces Depression o liwick of town or v hotel, one rs - 1 of hat i Cremon: t the opinic e period o men in o lage " may avival of the building industry the coming of Spring and in rienltural Fascist lawyers and party leade (Anti-Fascist lawyers and leaders not eat at the beat hotels.) ment rages, for Instance, on ference hetween a politiclan and with and another Napoleon, but cites Mussolini always wins. 0 in re. trade com f0 hel n Members of the central council | workmen of the press, which incl | all writers in soviet Russia, h: | The 1 They Are Progressives. They regard themselves as moder- | ately radical. or, to nse a much abused | term, “I'rogressive.’” and published printing offices alth into Russian by government the payment of 1 SUNDAY ins “ulture is 1z various s are dealing with this subject several points of merit. pending in their present f 1t dates from the sixties, nearly Bmean 200,000 o1 Union accounts measure, Midwest Thomas (. esentative of the a the farmer fiees s like problems legislation e Federal Government. have heen spewe politicians of such an origin with hut 1n eve cocked toward personal political aggran BRIGHT HOPES FOR U. S. nce Between Imports and Exports for Present wool Some of these to indefen the consumers while high- |1v encouraging with respect to the | United | With of commudities reasonable | to en Numerous in Italy record figures for bank clearings, but [would seem, is now bustling with ful- through | orsaniza know | ¥ i hest ssion i great hopes are placed in oy the art of polities by the local | Value of imported coffee has far ex The argu- the dif- statesman. One cites Augustus Caesar he wi | £ Would End Plagiarism. ides asked for a law to punish plagiarism w may protect foreign writers, whose books are now freely translated the without "EDITORIAL SECTION he Sunday Stad MORNING, MARCH 1926. Activity of Self-Seeking Politicians Blocking Real Farm-Rel ief Legislation doing the American farmer small service by lending their influential names and unlimited fortunes to farm-relief panaceas which they must know are unsound in principle and with- out any genuine chance ever of hecoming enacted into law." n bill which the follow- nt aims: committee of the National he adverse conditions under boring and believes that desirable. But it is con- that various farm erganiy tions of the country are method of bringing relief. pending before Congress most of them having But the executive co e any of the measures now e Tt fs notorious in Washington that strong- arm tactics are being ruthlessly employed to gain support for certain pending radical farm- relief measures. The entire membership of the House of Representatives, in far as indi- viduals are candidates for re-election this vear, is being “worked” on the card-index system. So are the 34 Senators (27 Republicans and Demoerats) who come up in the approaching primaries and may be candidates for re-election in November. Opponents of radical measures ascert openly that agitators for these bills have induced many congressional farm leaders—in come cases men of national repute-—to “come for such bills and “go along” with while apologetically admitting privately they are strongly opposed to such legis * % k! ange is not only the oldest rzest fqrm orzanization in Com member the some of the Dickin A00.000 members, 200,000, The mainly in the its intensive ixinated in Janu veteran \Wash I 1 Grange, experience in dirt than any agricul States, has litde being con million Fe hacking a h are out them that lation When the MeNarv-Haugen bill (of which the Dickinson bill s called “the bobbed-hafred and shorterskirted sister”) was pending three vears its hoosters notorfously reaped a harvest of votes by “trading” on Capitol Hill. The Muscle Shoals bill was curvent at the same and Western MeNary-Haugenttes hagged crous Southern votes in hoth b by Vising Muscle Shoals support in r ry-Haugen I thant such political huckstering will cmploved when the Dickinson bill reaches showdown, if it is not aiready in progress, At present the hill's prospects are unfavor able in the hichest degree. Rut with a aressional eampaign in the offing and countless ceats in jeopardy the unexpected mizht happen One of the possible contingencies arousing spee ulation is a combination of Southern Democrats with Republican Dem hers in both h At this hour ervative farm group in Congress whiphand. But determined methods at work to has about mbership is for which conference « at Atkeson wider polities Unit ‘medicin et ! time, n i MeN pected 10y now uses turn for real problems,” real pr i commonly the writer. “He is entitied as capital, industey the law and medicine [ votes. is sus he Jaboi ' solved | solved by the te But the farm ton many immature states i to the surface by exi cted either g the foolinz in farmer's problems with them without cases with and o mem w0 the con holds the men and unusual to wrest it away, too many them. hacked with millions married inherited, are FUTURE SHORTAGE IN RUBBER INDUSTRY PRESENTS PROBLEM or (Conyright. 1996.) ituation of Artificial Restriction During iod of High Demand Leaves Outlook of Trade Uncertain. re- | BY RANC nt Guar . York SON, Company Lwithin the control On the other hand an extremely high level wonld stimulate | plin other untries, which would in turn | demoralize the coffee industry in | Brazil. Although the natural environ ment and the 'lar cal production favor coffee | Brazil, the potentialities for competi tion abroad are quite ample to upset sonable monopoly The | zilian government fies its defense policy on the sitfon that this extreme irreg of the Santos crop miakes for miendous price variation, which j life of the however vercised with diseretion if run afoul of the world supply and demand. Brazil is & coun try rich in economic resources, It s to be hoped that the future develop- ment of the country will render it less dependent on the fortunes of one in dustry. The intimation from British sources that (he present high price of niay ascribed to inere iean dening undoubtedly tistical evidence ised demnnd tion Wi the e the Vier of of ) of prices The ng in large indust recent ineredsing trend toward i al | structive attitude lie ind the con € mergers ssumed by the pib. together of ducts, have one towar th foreign these activities, o " didcission production in read of nd wides - monopolies of raw pr coffee, generally NE | especially rubber an unre ads justi propo- ularity tre. te. will extrene i< not focused attention of the movements most significant economic the product m Fconomy small mar in profit Lenee o aid of dizes 1the economi hay e 2ins of ital and Tow sumer are hecoming more i more the watchwords of business men. 1 vigilanee |18 perfectly obvious to men of intelli- | to gence that these ends can better be | attained through efficient operation on a big scale. The American people are gradually being convinced that so it|far as harmful practices are con. cerned the size of a concern hears no relationship to Its business ethlc If there is to be governmental over- | | seeing of the condnet of husiness, it puld be much easier to watch n few husine: men than thonsands of quick turnover to the con ' cost overnment control o he i Amer- founded A bl has e is sive st on impre small dealers Ax to the foreign monopolics, in view of the ClITent controversy over the rubber situation, it is of interest to note that in the recent past the ) I Huen in price | popular | strietion e this ine tive, The reflected Which atten plan As recently 1910 the rapidly developing automotive and rubber products industries depended for 91 per Wi ol the an denond W spectacul turn has foc on the export vis ssed v ceeded that of rubber leading fmport In 1523 and was a close second to raw silk in 1924. It is also the only product involved in the pres- ent International discussion that enters directly and on a large scale into popular consumption. Vi Coffee was our do as a uct of Brazillan sing prices such perfod of overproduction, with pressed prices, was threatened development of rubher plantations haa involved the risking of large capital in a pioneer industry, Al though the planters had heen reward ed handsomely in the first yvears of their enterprise, they were now suffer- | Ing serious reverses and the economle life of British Malaya In particular was imperiled. ho ulated planting to Valorizatlon Plan Favored. World conditions tend to favor the valorization plan for coffee when exer- cised with diseretion. Although the { production of coffee outside of | after remaining stationary for : | 40 vears, has recently heen incre; | the growih of population and the tendency toward increased per capita consumption promise to absorb a gradual expansion of production. Sao Paulo itself has the capacity of double the present crop. The expansion within Brazil, however, is presumably of ve Results of Restric The restriction act established a 'U. S. Needs Conservatives in hoth political parties deny tendencies and claim fe truly progressive spirit v they want progress nd orderly progress, which to their minds means they want to return to government under the Constitution, which would restore to the States their powers over local matters and leave & to the Congress. with provisions for | a gain over 1924 of $318.000.000, or 7/ fairly_ liberal Interpretation, those |per cent, further substantiates our sbecific " powers—and none others— | high hopes for increased foreign trade cranted to Congress by onstitu- | this year. Almost every class of man- tion. g onriin 1::‘1.3(3"”»(1 articles has been exported !ing n[, \"M'Plzn ,m'm” Pn‘m-“ It may well he concelved, therefore, |in greater quantity than ever hefore. | extend to every continent, (hat e may emerse fram thi e it in the inflation vears, 1919 and [and public opinion has recent exa of good feeling when the lines of | 1920, with automobiles showing a oy ltsell heard in no uncertain t battle hétween the two great parties markable increase of nearly { the. ave ill.defined. and enter npon & new | cent over 1924 figures. Crude mate- | World Court. = But we . partisanship—non-s Al ylals inecreased 13 per cent in "”""\'m'h"]m L )\\|‘y3|: "‘;I" creat issue being as to whether | and semi-manufactured and y\nuh.»d“\"_“""’ "I‘“' e we shall continue to function upon | articles each advanced about 12 perportion when the principles wrought out by the | cent. lrn].‘-asnrx .-‘“;‘ s suffered a founding fathers, or shall go still | slight decline from 1924, o U NGAE SRSt e car Fas fitther outsie. ofthe. Gongtitisin || (Bamort trade mithSouth, America | Nede East nd the Fac HLst, 8 and continue to change slowly but [showed — the lulr‘;:l'sr l‘elnatil\'n ,,‘,::;.‘,‘p\» a thoug b our form of government from |amounting to 21.1 per cent over | < Latin eivili @ t of a republic to fyu||~:.'l'lx|'|‘.‘"-{..(.:?}, { figures, while exports to Afrl nd | of us, ““,,",,‘v'",.'.;'"i','. ".‘;:L‘:”.:Tprfl on the one hand, or a strong centrai | Oceania increased 267 per cont and | cofman IANEUALS SRres zovernment with autoeratic tend- | 21.1 per cent, respectively. Although | copperiers ane on the other? the increase in our exports ta Eu- 1 he \4I ': me years ago we {rope amounted to only 6.4 per e, P'I' strictly by the Constitutio this represented about $157,000,000, or | HESERCE litdle about it; by a strange paradox | Dearly ene-half of the tofal in gt | et does i e o LRt gl orth America increased § 0,000,000, | K€L into out S icRier g el | Which was slightly less than 5 per | Iewsbans getting further away from it in our | e i Spite of the enorman n veise | Sponent <A iy in our imports from Asia, exports to | Alres, s bbb St | that continent declined ~$20,000,000, 7 ¥ and were 5.7 per cent smaller than in 1924, the present reactionary themselves But they with order | zoing ahead steadily. The import business is good. particularly for man- ufactured goods, such as are imported from the United States. Sales of our products to Australasia and the Straits | Settlements during 1925 showed a vast improvement over 1924. Export Gain. export figures, recording | Our 19 “The fool's eyes are at the end the earth” is a proverb that needs rms we have sense of p the v f 1 our wor 5 what little there is left we give t interest from of genuine ca ix manifest We happening in South Amer press, and not used to live . but tatked | In ! value of our export trade. sto n ntiago and Lima. Mexico Trades More. Import Situation. & now to our imports, the countries of America among series of events the | the startling Tur: Mexico imports from the Tnited States in December, 1925, amounted | the greater prosp to $12.700,000 zold. Total imports in | with enhanced bu the calendar year 192, mounted to i cal and semi-tropical foodstuffs and! 1917 we pursued a policy in Mexi $144.695.400 gold. an increase of slight. | exotic raw materials. It is unfortu- | heginning with the landing at 1y more than 7 per cent over those of | nately attributable also in considerable | Cruz, that was resented 1924, Mexico exports to the United |part to marked advances in the prices | Latin America. We intervened States in December amounted to ap-|of a number of important articles, | Central America, in Haiti and proximately $14.000.000, making a total | such as rubber—which, for the first [ Domingo, and delayed shamefully of $178,788,622 for 1925, an increase of | time in our commercial history, takes slightly more than 7 per cent over ! rank as our leading import, and which !literally invited the Latin Ames 1924, & ity of the country, | ng power for tropi- { momentous decade. From 1913 Clear-Cut Policy in Little- Appreciated Latin American Lands BY HERBERT ADAMS GIBBONS, Author and Authority on Foreign Affairs. be recalled when Americans are think- interests is true, ¢ made %0 per | favor of the United States joining the Tost— | to say that Fnrope monopolizes our attention, and the Few | the Western Hemisphere to the south the read dally columns Europe. American maintain _corre- at Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Yet from 1913 to the present time events have been happening, largely of our own initiative. which are fully as important for the tuture relations that 1925 increase of $618,000,000 reflects | have changed the relations between spe and America during the last Vera throughout settle our obligations to Colombia. We resulted in the rise of Asia, its source, states to join us in intervening in the the part of the United States. “standard production” her estate and certain percentage of {ror exportation in ea depending upon the ing the preceding production figures Department of Commerce that the “fair price” aimed at was not excessive, considering the nature of the industry. Nor can it be sald that the plan drove prices up to un- reasonable levels during the first two vears of its operation. That the administration of the ex- port nized the abnormality of the present failure to state that in going into the | sjtuation is indicated by the fact that court we were willing to have that|the export allowance has heen body judge issues that might arise | creased 15 per cent for the current between Latin American countries or | quarter. The present allowance between ourselves and a Latin Ameri- jo9 per cent of the standard. On the can country. other hand. one of the leading rubber 1f we are sincere In the contention | firms maintains that inadequate labor that states large and small have equal | will limit productfon in the restricted rights and that international machin- [area to 95 per cent. ery such as has been set up at Geneva [ The serlous problem now facing the and The Hague is a good thing for |industry is the prospect of a serious the world, why have we not restated | shortage within a few years, although the Monroe doctrine to bring it in line with the new spirit and the new inter- national agencies that have grown | out of the war? fe alle that W quarter 1ch ted a dard vear, quarter. Cost war in Europe in 1917, encouraged them to join the league of Nations, insisted on a Monroe doctrine qualifi- cation in the covenant and then falled to join the league ourselves. In all our. World Court discussions, when leaders of both major political parties in the United States jolned in advo- cating our admission, there was a of to in ro- 1d. i of nd 20 nd the upset present calculations. forts of American manufacturers The Tacna-Avica difficulty, in which | enter the field of rubber production on the Washington administration has |2 illowed itself to hecome entangled, | Worthy enterprise. In so far as rub- is an illustration of the danger of hav- |ber plantations can he developed ing no foreign policy that is clear-cut. | Within the political jurisdiction of this We could have referred that perplex-jcountry, a reserve will be built up ing question to the World Court; or |Which may serve in a national we could have told Chile and Peru | emergency that we wanted to assoclate Brazil| It was unfortunate that there was and Argentina with us in forming the |artificial restriction of supply during boundary commission. But instead of [a period of highly augmented demand, following one or the other of the al-| which would have assured good prices ternatives that commend themselves to the producer. It should be noted, to common sense. our Government |however, that restriction did not re. appointed a commission with a_mili- tary man at the head of it, with the result that if the plebiscite fails to settle the question our prestige is se- |be n | riousiy involved, and those elements |growth of an | in 1th America that hate us will | vears was partly to|have a new argument to use to illus- [ which could not trate the overbgaring attitude and in-|at the time the an | comprehension of smaller countries on | passed. in | as to co, | East. and situation the in the owing prospective it mentioned that demand last to two restriction act was (Govyrirht. 1990.) | disippeared. It = fi Society News BRITAIN GRADUALLY NEARS - TWO-PARTY GOVERNMENT ‘Tories Now in Control, But Br rak-Up of Liberal Party and Eventual Union With Laborites Believed Sure to Come. terable number of and BY FRANK H. SIMONDS. fsh nature. A cons the mines are, from the econ ONDON.—While the problems | 10 B o Vew which surround British eco- | The husiness nomic conditions and those | & oy the had which dominate Pritish foreizn | 5" L70 TG policy claim first attention in | (o p TN American and FEuropean worlds, it e |y 08 NI IC not impossible that in the future the | \i "y Ginace developments of cotemporary British | oiq” combine domestic politics may have an even | o o onic mines larger value in history. At the mo- | giiant conduet of ment a great political party is obvi- | Liogitanl ously dying. Something of the fate [ o, Which-overtook the Whig party in the | which would keep the had mines rin United States fn the decade hetween | At pense: th and 1860 has now befallen the 1dve tion of mo party. 14 Broadly speaking. Liberal party is the dire of the war. Translated into Ames terms, however, the Liberal party dyving because it ix divided over the question ¢ the hour, as the party was split over the issue of It is true that, in addition rge Is draggivg down own party. 1t cannot get rid of him, and vet his leadership Is not only dis astrons but fatal But 1t is possible | exaggeraie the Georgian clreum only o rnn loss. ve serapy mpel bl reorzani ruthless with those economically the Cat o loss, which K serapping ruthlessly advoeates nationalization ning ries Pl business priv the was point where would pay government s we Ition in which the [ ment of unprofitble timate peal of ol | achieve without any his | episis It is reall Mr. Baldwin standiing whil o for 1 will stand the fall of the ik t consequence an unprofitable Ptut the ward abando ind the 1 I be sharp duce mines Tor ' pos the to operate King t gradual suhidies which at the is on The fondization moment s In nsotne will net star probahl of 1h Ma sta cou Great Britain has passed into an ern which the battle t be waged upon economie grounds, The old dif. ferences, the histor division between the Tories and th Liberals, have passed, and the issues on which Lib. and appeal were hased have | extent than The mass of the Liberal | e p from t party are just as vitatlv hound to | tremists g0 over in the end to the Lahor party were the mass of the Whigs te merge into the Republican party for a1 certain such vaid My wiher compro vs contlict ol will word, iy s Baldwin My ar greater he of b Macl 4 Advan wwies K In the long hoth parties will e comple shall have ce. rin evalnt Hesitate Over Labor Part conservative | maintenance ! ethods of | The Tor torces of { fears of the Liberals i rubber | cent of their rubber on the wild prod- | nd African jungles. | them percelve n extent that by 1920 a long |men who are coming up to vote are When de. | not The | viding hetween Tories and Labor imounts { the bulk rub- | veruge price dur- | of | arrived at by the | cisive indicate |again restriction scheme has recog- | economic lssues. in- | is | Tory ng use of reclaimed rubber | reasonable panic, but it not only turn- ries of consumption may | The ef- ] Tories to ! which endures, large scale is an entirely praise. |new majority of decls {duce the total output from the Middle | the Tor In connection with the present | prehension as to the may | and of the Tory camp. phenomenal | factors have heen foreseen | nunsound foundation. thi Rut, despite outward circumstances the passing of the Liberal party is not going to he attended A efvil w like that which resulted from the co; trol of the Republican party in Amer ien by the extreme element. What is happening at the moment is that the Liberals, who would g0 to remain he: use the party is still encaged indis own | struggle between the risht and the | Lleft, hetween the conservaiive 1 | vadieal labor elements, the followers of Bamsay Machonald, who are British radicals, and the extreme radical fre fment of the Labor party, who are fol [ lowers of Moscow ! At the moment majority of upws | House of Comm { represent the ac in Great materially election. fully | mente | members facing h other will not be compleis erates in o the extremists lems, the internal MacDonald and grently different the differes and charaeter o very by Y 2 hocnmps b tempe es | the the twe men are not profonnd But during Britlsh politi usuil hasis has dissppeared, stored until the Liberal absorbed. 1T ther elect In any time which have a | be envisaged, the Tories in the [hands down. That thes ns. which does not | next fon, three nal political situation | hence sound hetting Britain. but would not he | Indeed chanzed today by any new | Win until has pretiy siecess absorbed into itself all of the of organized lahor, all of of unions. It has {strength of something 1ik= 30 per cont of the voting strength of the nation . on the other hand. control something short of 50 per cent, hut the country ftself is still apprehensive fof the extreme radical fringe, or tail, | of ahor. | A of the « the transition 1 i i The old two part ond it will perie | been W will Tories " the d ele is a ' it s safe that the Lt to say [ has 1 hoit its 1 vepntat closing pha of wle <o ¢ the <alid cnnse i flairs On the other end, an the and the suspicions are gotten, it will he Labor which come into power lav the Torie are holding p wioptifig a fair | padical policy con i it thes hat is resctioni 0 will eventuadl able hand when connt i it b whom Moscow noviev episade fon will party mada up of leads hy liber and character of Mae Donald, Clynes and Thomas. to zo no jfurther, would offer no oistacle to the | ! [transference Lihey strensth H B the il Laber It will have inite steps to . less fmaginar jority that it | is the party of Moscow, that It fs|there in reality bolshevist tween Tory Chamberls reality 1s |of Mr. ven The Lat to denio cule conse | ¥ all is wver to \ vath te the o on questions of foreign policy absolutely no difference b nd Labor, and Sie Austen Vs great successes are in in no small degree the hacvest apprehension MacDonald's sowing Thomas and Clynes | ti the Darty Qs growin are conservatives in and consolic is the opposition not the political sense Darty of the and the altern They ni than | thve o e casentially Brif i he everything e Alms Are Conservative. Of course the rather ridiculous. and Machonald the true but of ord Bt —the hl shich erythi ing I it I h ~ vely agains revolution vepr il et hod squ ng which nd constitng ime (o time, o keep their pariy mited, it is necessary for them to | make concessions to the more radical fraction 1d these concessions alarm prospective Liberal converts. There are a certain number of mil lions of Liberal voters who have not | traditional yet taken the great plunge. Most of | that labor and capital that in the end the |spective canses by emp is doomed. The young |dittonal British political it s sufficiently plain that will “play the game” in the itleh fashion, then it will most cer. tainly come ! k power The Key <h character 1s shown in the the conservatives e and the radicais vative in . power Within mits Mag i For it must be perceived in the bDonald did play the game and if he ! United States that there are not now | had not blundered in the Russian case [two or even three parties Britain would have remained in power for but not less than five. The Tories nley Baldwin are divided between their more mod the game’ erate membership which follows Bald mpresn and the reactfonary lot which itish peo. hear thy name of “Diehards “ have not any one outstanding leader. | Labor, on the other hand. is spiit e | Seeks ¢ [tween the conservative elements fol The & owing MacDonald, who are the de. POSUWIr years has been majority, and the minority, |Class struggle which without spicuous leaders, | Able following the confifet who have very real red sympathies. [allv frightful econc S | Britain have heen until Both Bothered by FKxtremists. | the natural material out of which to All things considered, there is aus |precipitate revolution. But the Brit little real difference hetween Baldwin |ish people have no patlence with the !and MacDonald as there was between [idea of revolutfon and not the smail Coolidge and Davis on fundamental |€st notion of permitting their conntry But difficulties arise {to hecome the battlefield of the classic that each faces an ex- | Marxian conflict | treme faction, which is endeavoring The gravest difficulty to force the party into extreme po- ' ican any other sitfons. On the one side It = the ! sidering Rritish political condi reactionaries who trouble Bald- | the inability appreciate the it I8 the red- 'mous fnstinet of the British for cor who bother | promise and adjustment and their MacDona {most unparalleled experience with The Toriex won the last election crise<. The Englishman instinctiv because they were able to throw the 'shrinks from elahorate and detaile country into an enormous panic over ;solutions. e < not readily respon:! the alleged Russian tendencles of La- |to involved programs. On the 1 It was an unreasoning and un- | trary he is convinced that no matter !what either party mav anyou «d up an enormous majority for the |before election, both will he about ¢ but ereated a state of mind | same things in pow and would bevond any | The really striki Wl the Tories a | Stanley Baldwin a ive If not pres. | precisely in the fact the existing situ- | things considered. the | thing that has led in politics in & The situation is anomalous, because |long time. Ile has the reputati & party having less than 30 per cent!valuable i ritish 1 of of the voting strength of the country {both stupid and honest, and ahove =i actually can control at least two-thirds | a little slow. Moreover the same repi of the seats in the House of Commons. | tation is possessed by his most But_this situation can endure until | spicuous lieutenant at the momer the Liberal party is absorbed into both | Sir Austen Chamberlain the larger parties, and the absorption ; cannot take place until the Liberals,| . Baldwin Hold Str who would go either to Lahor or to| ‘When Baldwin inherited the leade are relieved of their ap.|thip of the Tory party from the la ¢ Law the country was taken hu cals of Labor | ek ise and there was a gendral | he wonld ne ast lonz turned out to make way more showy and brilliant men. the showy and brilliant men have been eliminated or brought to heel and Baldwin_has a popularity and a (Continued on Third Page) Bat from th 1. Labor repre «, nation pi party v the country ntion of ixsiie {1 today that 1 while the Tory other. But | smallest inte name wresents the net the ding for the It tnefsts serve their re- »ying the tra- machiner: sta | Liberal party Labor hecoming Liberals: they di The losing by attrition, bt remains quite solid vet! i not because there is any hope of nlti fmate recove bt b use hoth the lalternative parties are at the moment lunattractiv are B that vadi cons Liberals are faet expects to he n to be hy a long lis emphatically iving ind there his’ situation bie with the mass the Jple is [ Avold Class Clash m L © number that 3 tnevit “The liter problems of § very recently | ent prob for to avoid seemed « from the fact for an Amer foreigner in ions fs win: on the other hand sympathizing dicals s popularity the moment | that doubt give Baldwin ent proportions in ation. politics hein i Bona <ury lief that would he Foundation Unsound. At the moment Labor is on a rather It is seeking to cure the existing economic difficulties by academic and doctrinaire methods which are utterly foreign to theBrit. - w Rt L4