Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1919 — WHY WAIT! [ARTICLE]

WHY WAIT!

Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler wafts himself homeward from the west to say that there Is a strong feeling out there "that the Democratic administration in Washlng-

ton, by acts of omission and acts of commission and by acts of inr competence, has actually imperilled the foundations of our institutions; therefore, the embattled Republicans "have sternly resolved, as their fathers did When they went to the polls for Abraham Lincoln in 1860, that this American republic must be preserved from every attack of socialism or seiml-socialism, of Bolshevism or anarchy, of a soviet form of government or by whatever name it may he called.” This is as thrilling as a jazz band, but why do these impassioned patriots wait until the polls open? Why not get busy now? asks the New York World. There is a Republican congress, with a working majority in, both the senate and the house of representatives. The business of preserving the country from the enemies of the republic need not be delayed until 1921. It can start any day, and its power to legislate cannot be questioned. We used to think rather highly of the Republican party as a saviour of the country, but in those days It did not try to postpone the saving until after the next campaign. If the western Republicans are as agitated as Dr. Butler says they are—and If we remember rightly, Dr. Butler is the gentleman who carried California unanimously for Hughes in 1916 —they had better begin poking up their Republican congress at once. Nobody else has been able to get anything out ,of it.