Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1915 — Not a Partisan Issue. [ARTICLE]

Not a Partisan Issue.

Democrats in congress must not allow the republican minority to seize the national defense of a partisan issue. Every evil which afflicts the army today is an evil that was developed and grown fat during years of republican administration. Every “company post” which scatters men and money has been established and maintained bv republicans. Every larger organized blunder, like Fort D. A. Russell, maintained without rhyme or reason in an arid desert a thousand miles from the nearest possible enemy, owes its existence to tlm pull of republican congressmen and senators who want “government money” spent in their states or districts, and are willing to make political capital out of cash that shoeld be used* to secure the land, against insult and invasion. _ To let a party with such a record pose as the sole hope of national defense Is a folly of which the democrats cap not , must not bo guilty. Tl»e democratic party must follow the wise counsels of the present secretary of war and provide this country with an army ablo to meet the demands of modern warfare. —Chicago Journal.