Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 210, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1916 — This From Democrat, Assailing Policy of Own Administration. [ARTICLE]

This From Democrat, Assailing Policy of Own Administration.

Washington, Aug. 31.—Representative William E. Cox, of Indiana, gave the lion’s tail an awful twist ' . a speech in the house of representatives yesterday. ' “The very idea,” said he, “that almost from the time when the first shot rang out in ihe great European war, the republic of the United States has been doing business by the grace of King George of England is absurd, unbelievable, and yet that is the way we have been doing business since the outbreak of the war. “For nearly two years England has seized our mails, opened our letters, refused to let anything in the way of letter or parcel post matter reach the central powers of Germany and Aus-tria-Hungary. “Mr. Speakor, I am a man of peace. I deplore war as few men deplore it, but for one, by the eternal God, I would send American mail to its destination if I had to send it Sacked and supported by the power of the American navy. How much longer must we crawl on our hands and knees and crave the indulgence of King George, France, Russia or any of the other belligerents?”