Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1920 — DISGUSTED WITH REPUBLICAN SPEAKERS [ARTICLE]

DISGUSTED WITH REPUBLICAN SPEAKERS

1 The great chief justice, John Mar shall, said: “Nothing, I believe, so । pollutes and debases the human mind as partisan politics,” and if he were living today he would be of the same opinion still. The tricks that respectable men and women will -do to serve their party is enough to make one a believer in the doctrine of total de- ' pravity, and hope that the belief in hell is not a myth. The disgust I have felt in listening to certain Republican speakers makes me wonder what sort of people they think we | are, and how it happens that they have so long escaped the fool killer. They come to us with the most absurd statements and expect us to believe them, though there is one, thank heaven, that about England having srk votes 'to our one in the league, that is so thoroughly exploded we hear It very seldom now. Here they love to dwist the tail of the lion, and there Is nothing suits them quite do well as promoting anglophobia. “England is this, that, and the other.” “She Is trying to gobble up the world.” “She will wage wars and make us par for them,” etc., etc., ad Infinitum ad nauseam. This kind of talk too often meets with applause to our shame be it said. England Is our friend and ally, and when we fought her she was ruled by a German king. The majority of his people were in sympathy with the colonies. George Hl. had to go putslde his realm to get men to fight us, and our forefathers, like the Purdue professors today, “watched the Hessian fly.” England rules a great part of the world because she is a wise ruler, the best governor of alien peoples the world has ever 'Seen and, outside the United States, I do not care if she “gobbles” a lot more of the world. Wherever the English flag flies there Is security tor life and property. The one exception is Ireland and why? . Because the Irish people Can never agree among themselves. Now the Republicans are professing great sympathy for Ireland in order to get the Irish vote, but in private they say: “D —n the Irish, arid if that foOl MacSwiriey wahts to starve himself to death, let him starve.” Vepily, history repeats itself. We are having as hard a fight to get 7 the league of nations adopted as bur forefathers- waged for the federal constitution, and as they won their fight, so will we win burs. The vituperation and slander that

was heaped on General’Washington then was worse, if possible, than I that President Wilson endures today. The called him all kinds of traitor and when he refused to be nominated for chief executive for a third term the newspaper said: “Thanlc God, we have seen the last j of Washington.” Today one of the grandest monuments ever erected to the memory of a man stands in the national capital in honor of “The Father of His Country,' and ere long we shall see another tn honor of the statesman and idealist who has already taken his 'fdace by the side of Washington and Lincoln, our peerlesa President Wilson. There is nothing the matter with the league of nations except that it was not written by Republicans. It may not be perfect, but It can be amended, even as our constitution has been amended. To have It adopted without destruction amendments would be a feather in the cap of Democracy not to be endured. The very thought of It throws thd Republicans into fits, spasms and convulsions. "Mr. Harding will make a new league” they tell us, and can see Mr. Lloyd George, Clemenceau nnd other great statesmen sitting at the feet of little Gamaliel listening to the words of wisdom falling from his mouth! He Is also going to have a separate peace with Germany and reinstate the tariff (may heaven preserve us from that old chestnut tariff!) and a whole lot of other things. In short, Mr. Harding proposes to go back to the "good old Republican times,” when wheat sold'- for 50 cents a bushel, corn 15 cents, oats 10 cents, cattle $3 and hogs $2. Taxes will not be reduced, for 78 cents out of every dollar you pay In taxes must go to pay for wars past and present, 1 per cent for education and 6 per cent for all other government expenses. Four and onehalf millions of children of school age go hungry every day right here In America. Think of It, voters, then go and vote against the league of nations! — Adelaide Eugenia Sherry, Lafayette, Ind., In Indianapolis News.