Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1918 — DEATH ON INCREASE IN ARMY TRAINING CAMP? [ARTICLE]

DEATH ON INCREASE IN ARMY TRAINING CAMP?

Washington, March 28—Although health conditions in general among the troops training in this country are described in this week’s report of the division of field sanitation as “very good” deaths among the soldiers increased from 180 the week before to 223. Pneumonia increased in the national army and regulars but in the national guard epidemic diseases are declining.

open and above-board statemeni of the real condition should be made by the administration. The time is here now when the president should pay less attention to the Democratic party and his son-in-law and give his undivided attention to the winning of the war. It is time to call into the activities of the government our greatest men, of the nation whether Democrats or Republicans. The time is here and now for us to be more concerned about the boys in the trenches than the politicians of the country; to be more concerned about wining this war than the making of some great political heroes with whom to enter the next great political contest. Tell the whole truth. Keep the people posted. Pay attention to criticism that has for its sole purpose the correction of the evils which are sure to be our undoing if not corrected. Widen the circle of those who are to help in this stupendous task beyond a little inner circle of close personal and political friends.

It is time for the administration to stop accusing the Republicans of being partisans, and at the same time to be using every possible influence to further the cause of the Democratic party. The Democrats won the last election by the most disgraceful deceit. Will they lose-the war on account of bigotry? Thus far, in many ways, our conduct in the war has been unsatisfactory to this country and our allies. If we are to help win the war we must stop depending on fine language and soft handed gentlemen and get down to rock bed, strenuous earnest effort. If the world is to be saved from the Hun, the United States must get into the conflict with five million soldiers and with a hundred million dollars, and, if necessary, annihilate all political difference. Republicans demand that the administration quit playing politics and that it get into the war game with a single purpose, and that purpose is to put Germany upon her knees.