Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1920 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of tho Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings In the Nearby Cities and Towns —Matters of Minor Mention from J Many Localities. MORAL AND POLITICAL DISASTER The defeat of the Democratic party and the Wilson ideals is morally and politically more disastrous to. progress and humanity than the great war 4 The large majority In favor of the old special-Interest organization will completely upset the expectations of millions that looked forward with joy and hope to a new era and the new freedom that dawned in the last eight years but Is obliterated by the dark and dirty deeds of powerful and jealous foes that re•orted to calumny and the treachery ous help of political Judas Iscariots. But the result will give hope and comfort to the Socialistic and Bolshevik elements that have always declared that “an honest vote in the people’s Interest is Impossible;” that “money can carry an election either way at any time," and that there are “men so great and influential that they can give or sell a million or more votes at any national election.” If this Is true it looks bad for our country, for special Interests are greedy and greed Is Insatiate and selfish, and the people may get tired of their rule, end then what? There has been much oratory about Americanism lately, and one could almost believe that there are no Americans but the cheap politicians that are seeking jobs and the gentlemen that have made millions through £igh tariff and cheap imported labor. All the people cannot forget the government report on the steel mills of Pennsylvania, where they paid imported men from Poland to work twelve hours a day and support a family on $1.40 a day and under a high tariff to protect American labor. The same steel mills demanded SSOO a ton for armor plate for our navy, but they were patriots and Americans and they love the people and the flag. There was not much Americanism in the people that voted with the enemies of our country —against our martyr president, the secretary of war, the secretary of the navy and the grand array of soldiers and sailors that rushed so eagerly and loyally to give their all for the flag. There wasn’t much Americanism in them that by their vote ignored the thousands of patriotic citizens that gave their services and their lives freely to our. beloved president carry out his gloriously successful efforts in the greatest war the world ever saw, a war they won in spite of the obstructionists and traitors at home —traitors that today are scoffing and laughing because a deluded people rebuked and turned him down, because under his wise leadership the Americans scored the greatest victory in military history. Oh, brothers and friends sleeping ’neath the popples of France and Belgium, how fruitless your sacrifice! —William L. Thomasson in the New York World.