Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1919 — THE TABLES ARE TURNED [ARTICLE]

THE TABLES ARE TURNED

While the Democrats were in power, Republicans dinned the country’s ears with criticism and denunciation. Every act and every omission was wrong. Nothing was right. The war was muddled; peace was delayed; reconstruction was impossible. The cure was a Republican Congress, with brilliant statesmen and economists like Senators Lodge and Penrose and Representatives Gillett and Mondell as its leaders,, Several months of Republican responsibility and control has not convinced the people that the change was for the better. Indeed, there is not a problem which has not remained unfulfilled in this third of a year of Republican accountability for legislation. At the worst, the Democratic Congress preceding the one now In session was charged with doing its work poorly. But it acted. The present Republican Congress has done next to nothing—and done It very badly. If the Democrats made mistakes it was because they made efforts. Against the Republicans Is fairly chargeable the greatest and costliest of all mistakes—failure to try. ■*- 1 ' In his statement to members of the Foreign Relatione committee at the White House conference. President Wilson gave some excellent reasons for speedy ratification of the treaty. He pointed out that the copper mines of Arizona, Montana and Alaska are operating at a loss; that the zinc mines of Missouri, Tennessee and Wisconsin are producing but half their normal output; that the lead of Missouri, Idaho and Illinois reaches only a

portion of its former market; that the skle of cotton In the Central Empires and other parts of Europe is Impossible and that many other commodities cannot be marketed because the channels of trade are barred until the resumption of commercial relatione is made possible by the ratification of the treaty. Tliose nations which first conclude peace will also be the first .to enjoy prosperity.