Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 223, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1916 — A DEAD LOSS. [ARTICLE]

A DEAD LOSS.

National guardsmen from all over the country have been “marched up hill and then marched down again.” They have had their taste of “watchful waiting” on the Mexican border. It has cost the government $130,000,000 according to democratic figures, to make good Mr. Wilson’s incapacity to perceive the necessity for military preparedness during more than two years df his administration and to the guardsmen who responded patriotically to the call to arms, saclificing their business, their employment, in many instances the business prospects gained by years of hard and faithful toil, and subjecting their families to privation, all the loss they have sustained is a dead loss. No one will recompense them for it. They must simply offer it up as the tribute irrevocably exacted of them by Wilsonian vacillation and democratic inefficiency. | - , ■