19 MAY 1917, Page 3

To this item of American news we may add another—namely,

the uncompromising declaration by Colonel Roosevelt at a recent meeting of a Farmer's Club on Long Island. He told them that, in his opinion, the United States "should see that grain is not diverted from food into intoxicants." That is as bold as it is generous. Yet though the need is so much more imperative with us, our leaders talk to us with bated breath about the veto of the Trade Unionist organizations I