Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1918 — BOYS IN TRENCH NEED LIQUOR, SENATE IS TOLD [ARTICLE]

BOYS IN TRENCH NEED LIQUOR, SENATE IS TOLD

Washington, D. C., May B. Senator Brandegee, of Connecticut, protested today with vehemence against discussion of woman suffrage or prohibition during the progress of the world war. “You cannot win this war,” he declared, “by talking about woman suffrage and prohibition. We won every war we ever were in without woman suffrage and prohibition. “We won the war in 1776 and 1812 and the Mexican war, and the war of 1860, and the SpanishAmerican war and there were no pink tea parties talking about putting pink chemises on the men and Plymouth Rock pants on the women. “The women do not propose to go over in the trenches abroad and do the fighting. It is the men who have got to do that. “Instead of bleating around .here about their saving democracy by forcing their way into the caucuses and conventions, they had better go home and knit, make bandages, pick lint, and get ready to take care of their brothers and sons and fathers who are going to be shot to pieces in the trenches abroad?” “The women,” interrupted Senator Gallinger, of New Hampshire, “are doing that very thing to an extent that they ought to be congratulated upon.” “Take the boys over in their trenches there, standing all night in two feet if ice water, with orders in their pockets to go over the top in the cold gray dawn in a chilly fog, to put their exposed bodies up against shot and shrapnel and machine guns and poisonous gas and they say in addition to frozen feet they are going to fill his belly full of ice water before he starts as a moral stimulus to him. It is perfectly absurd. “Every army abroad gives its men a drink of something to expand the cockles of the heart before they go up against the cold blue steel and it may be the last one the poor devil will ever get. Yet you would think that this war is going to be won by such fads and fancies and frills aS that. New let us get down to brass tacks and win this war.”