Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1917 — JASPER COUNTY BAR SENDS A MESSAGE [ARTICLE]

JASPER COUNTY BAR SENDS A MESSAGE

To Congressman Will R. Wood Urging Him to Stand By President Wilson in Great Crisis. Rensselaer, Indiana. April 14, 1917. Be it resolved by the Jasper County Bar Association that whatever legislation is pending in the Natioma Congress relative to meeting the present crisis growing out of the war with Germany, and which has been recommended by the President and his Cabinet, be enacted into law, and we urge that both our United States Senators and our Representative in Congress vote and use their influence to that raid. We further recommend the passage of a universal military training law for the purpose of national defense. Jasper County Bar Association By Frank Foltz, President. Attest: Moses Leopold, Sec. The above telegram was rent to Congressman Wood Saturday afternoon by the members of the Jasper County Bar. There was a strong sentiment expressed in the meeting condemning Congressman Wood in his opposition to the president’s program of preparedness. There was some division in the meeting upon the points of selective conscription ibut all factored it if it was necessary and the president was to be the judge of that. On the point of universal training all were agreed and all were heartily in favor of the same.