Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 193, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1918 — OUR WARNING. [ARTICLE]

OUR WARNING.

Says the Democratic Indiana Daily Times: “Americans will not soon forget that the mailed fist was held in the face of Ambassador Gerard with the warning that the United States might ‘look out after the war.’ ” Nor will the people forget that this warning was transmitted to Washington at a time when Democrats were seeking election on the yellow plea, “He kept us out of War,” and that Ambassador Gerard’s timely warning was suppressed while Democratic politicians went on through the campaign, yelping, “He kept us out of war,” a plea which at the time they well knew was a fake and a sham. It is true the mailed fist was “held in the face of the United States,” as the Times says.. Worse than that the mailed, fist and. the hobnailed boot of Militarism were repeatedy applied to the persoh of Uncle Sam while Democratic pacifists, yellowists and petty politicians were holding off honorable and manly action and postponing the inevitable in order that they might get office and hold office on the plea, “He kept us out of war.” , The people do not forget. The people do not forget that the politi cians who put off preparedness on the plea of keeping us out of war merely kept us “out of condition” and finally entered the war shamefully unready for the emergency.