Liberty Express, Volume 16, Number 13, Liberty, Union County, 1 November 1918 — Page 7
THE LIBERTY EXPRESS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1918
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PREPAREDNESS: TALI! AND ACTION
What Was Accomplished by Taft, Roosevelt and Wilson
MORTOB'S VIEW OF LOYAL DOTY
HEPUBLIGANS NLiT
Republican talk about "preparedness" always leaves out the fact that
preparedness has bt-en advocated for more than a dozen years by Presidents j of the United States. Theodore Koosevelt has always been an enthusiastic advocate of universal military training in time of peace, and he did his utmost to get Republican Congresses to adopt his ideas. It is of interest to note what i success was attained by him and by his Republican successor, Mr. Taft, as compared with what President Wilson succeeded in getting done during his first term, before we got into war. It should be borne in mind, however, that during all of these twelve years the country was confronted by the impossibility of getting men to join the regular army, for the reason that a soldier's pay was only $15 a month; and Americans will not perform military service in time of peace for that compensation. In war time it is different. Thousands of men are ready to respond to their country's call when there is fighting to be done without much regard to the pay; but "soldiering" in time of peace is plain work, and is viewed as any other work. Here are some of the official figures for what was accomplished by the three Presidents before the United States declared war, together with some of the results achieved since April 0, 1917: CONDITION OF THE ARMY At close of Roosevelt's administration, all branches of service (number of men) 207.007 At close of Taft administration, all branches of service. L'll.'.t'l At close of Wilson's first administration, prior to war ö:5,0Uü (After 18 months of war, army of 4.000,000 men; 2,000.000 of which are now in overseas service.) April 0, 11)17, total number of officers, all branches of the service 8.084 August 24. PJ1S 17:5.077 April 0, 11)17, total number of forts, cantonments, trainin: camps and arsenals 2Ö7 June iy, 1917 419 Total amount used for construction of 33 army cantonments. . . . $2 12.984.','." guartermaster's expenditures during 1918 3.01 8.000.000 Ordnance expenditures during 1918 3,200.000,000 Expense of trench warfare 282,000,000 Comparative Army Appropriations Roosevelt. lyOS-lÜUi) $42.".01..r7r.23 Taft, lUU9-iyi3 442.00(;,40,..3") Wilson, 1913-1917 ' 989,413,588.09 CONDITION OF TDK NAVY Total number of men in navy at close of Roosevelt administration, including reserves fr, 548 Total number at close of Taft administration 6,",0r Total number at close of Wilson's first four years 83,32.3 Today, total number of men and officers 501,735 Increase in Fighting Ships April G, 1917, ships afloat 301 Today 1,720 (rovtth of Ruilding Program Close Roosevelt administration 173 Close Taft administration 170 Close Wilson's first administration 304 Comparative Navy Appropriations Roosevelt administration $470.811.372.11 Taft administration 020,3.r0.,.;,.r.24 Wilson's first term l,141,8.V,094.2f Relative World Rank or Navy At close of Roosevelt administration , No. 3 At close of Taft administration No. 3 At close of Wilson's fust term No. 2 SINCE WAR R KCl AN Medical Department Death rate of the Army now 7.f per 1,000. 1898 (Spanish-American War) death rate 20.14 per 1,000, or three times as great as during present war. 81 per cent, of men wounded in action return to field. 14 per cent, of wounded are discharged, unit for further military service. 5 per cent, only of wounded die of wounds. Army hospitals have been increased from 7 to C3. Others under construction. Red capacity increased from 0,000 to 08,400 (to be increased to 100.000). Increased personnel 8J00 to 171.000
Omcers, from , 900 to Nurses, from 375 to Ambulance service, from nothing to
Air Sen ice April 0, 1017 Sixty-five officers, 1,120 men. Three small aviation fields. Less than 200 second class planes. TODAY More than 1. ".0,000 men and 0.000 otlicers. Twenty-eight aviation fields. 5,554 planes built (2.000 in France). 7.U0U aviators trained in the United States. 4,000 awaiting assignment to ground schools. Cadets flying 3,000 hours a nay. Cadets flying 1 95,000 miles a day. or 8 times around the world. In one American held there are 135 planes in the air at once, flying 882 hours in one day. Clothing Typical Purchases of Clothing 47,000,000 cotton undershirts. 178,000.000 pairs wool stockings. 2,000.000 pairs rubber hip boots. 199.000,000 yards denim cloth. 3,000,000 pairs, arctic overshoes. 40,000,000 pairs shoes. Subsistence Purchases in This Country in One Month Included 210 carloads sugar. 24U carloads evaporated milk. 75 carloads tomatoes. CG carloads dour. Hardware and Metals Typical Purchases by this Division 752,000 hammers; l,0i0,000 planes. 171.000 saws; 1,500,000 axes. 0,400,000 tiles and rasps. 1,000,000 halters; 30,00 pack harness. 25,000 combat wagons. l-'y.OOO escort wagons. Rifles From April G, 1917, to June 30, 19 iS, 2.000,000 rifles had been produced by the Depaitment. Now being produced at the rate of 40,000 per week. Not a man in the Army without a gun. Machine (iuns 80,000 machine guns completed. 350,000 machine guns ordered. Artillery Tractors 35,000 motor trucks for hauling heavy guns, ammunition, etc. Shells Shells produced daily at four Covernment plants 179,000 Fourteen private plants also running full speed. $90,000,000 expended for nitrates in production of explosives. u.OOO.OOO.OOO rounds of ammunition for small arms, 1,500,000,000 of which are delivered. 80,000,000 projectiles; with four million completed. 1,500,000 pistols. 1,000,000,000 pounds powder. 35,000,000 hand grenades, 7,000,000 of which are completed. Coast Artillery April 0, 1917, total officers and nun 19,019 June 0, 1918, total ol!i ers and men 85,800 F.xihisive of those with expeditionary forces.
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KEEPIH6 PLEDGES
Indiana War Governor States President's Political Support Demanded of Patriots.
Q. 0. P. Not Making Comparisons This Year. Says Stotsenburg
EVEN STATE OFFICES MUST BE IN ACCORD
APPOINTEES IN THE LIMELIGHT
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Anion- ..th.T "oat riot ic" stuff "I '"" ,,v the i;.'nill! an Press liun-an of IixI.hiki l I lie follow in ai iii iipli :
"No. cliiM. tmiiami liiiiorals did L .. t1...if IVi;i Ill I ill "l 'II oll tili' 1'
lll.liw iii.ii -- 'Slain! I. til'' President." " Hut. 'vlnl.l." i!i- Indiana lt'1'" ' 1 ' :"1S "! 1S4 not .iiilv mail.' "Stand ly in' I'"'-'
tli.'r slogan. I'll! UN" 1 "' .r l..:iliv. In ili..e days Hie Kil'iil-
licans lil not call Ukisc Im lil not -nfpoi l PivMil.'iil Lincoln 1'i tii'i' nits." Tie; called tli.iu -ropi'iTlK'tids." And llial Matin-niildi-st title that any Keptild i a n in l'-i. had for an American (itieti win. did imi stand l.y tin- President politically and te the KepuMiean ticket. i:n!i'. ic:t us todil.v offer tli- ir party record in as proof of their patriotism now; Put the KepiiMintis of 1864 were of a very different ''feed fnun tli' I'-itk tluit ar-' smirlin- al the heels of Wood row Wilson today. Where will y.m lind a single prominent IJepnhliiMii leader wlm is living up to the KeptiMi. an slandard of 186? Not iill wli have leen identified with th peput.li.an parly are of thi Mripe. T!mf. are thousands of Keptililiians who are s:iy-
itr nothing. I-nt pr panntc to stand t.y ti.e
with their votes
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in N'oveiul'ir, of 1 i moi-ratts
24.000 i4.r,L7 G.0UÜ
Where Will You Find a Single Prominent Reoublican Leader Who Is Liv
ing Up to the Standard of I8G4? J In discussing state issues at Torre
J Haute. Kvan H. Stotsenburg. Dhiui-
critic car.ilidate for attorney-general, said : It is to be regretted that in the midst of all the activities of war preparation, that the people of Indiana by ri'ason'of the commands of their state r.institulitui are compelled to hold an election for State officers. This condition is not one of our own choosing.
it has been forced upon us by law, and it therefore has become our duty as citizens of this great commonwealth to give to it, such attention as we are able. After being out of power in Indiana for eight years the Republican party in 1916 was restorer to power following a campaign of misrepresentation, aided by a large rorrup'ion fund the like of which had never before been heard of in this State, r.nd for the good name of the State I hope, never will again. It was President Lincoln who said that you could fool all the people some of the time, and that is what happened in Indiana in 1916. The splendid administration of the State's affairs by Governor Halston was just drawing- to a close. The State debt had been paid, money had been provided to take care of the Purdue University Fund, the institutions of the State were in splendid condition. needed additional ones bad been added and all were well managed, a comfortable balance of over three and three rpruter million dollars in the treasury, the siuking fund tax levy was ready to be entirely abolished, and the general fund levy materially reduced. Still in the face of this splendid record -. -ispite of all these achievements, a majority of the voters of Indiana permitted themselves to be fooled and hoodwinked. I charge, and charge openly, that the present Republican administration came into power in Indiana, by reason of a campaign of false representations, a campaign made by leaders who ought io have known the falsity of their representa-
In hi debate with M.-ImnHld Morton rnr- . tjnns. jf they in fact did not know of rie.i the test ..f loyalty to the ext.-... of nip- tli..n TJip republican candidate for port in; the President in the ahohtton t ,. niHvery, which was then a vexed .piesi ion. I flovernor of Indiana, went up and down
the State calling attention to the in-
Democratic Candidate For County Commissioner Second District Will Be Greatly Appreciated FIRST TERM
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I who voted the I.ineoln ticket in 1?01. ! Oliver 1'. Morton wits pretty I aut.Miity on the liepiihliirtti position in ? when he was a .a n.tidn te for Governor against I,.-..!. I" Mt lionaNI. It I ititen sl in- to
not how his iitierani-es hiniie with tl. ! . . 1 1 II I i j . 11 I I i'l'.-l lll'HS Ol tOililV. Ii
"the I nioii.-' "llif ; iveriiineiit' and "the Adriiini-trnt ion" were synon;. : s t-rns. At the lieitininir of the .-aiMpa -Ml ot lhH4 he put his position iH-t'oie his opponent in I these w ords : ' "I advise him. however, that lie "t;,i vl pax thioo-ii this eainpaiu'il v. illi.nt inii.' awakened lo the fuel ot Iii' eil. i.e the war f f Ih'' people will thunder in l is .:ns the'vitiil iinesiioii. 'When' do si;i:.d'.' Are von for ihe I'nion or auain-i it".' yi voil for the t iovernnient or the relellioti ?" YS LOYAL MKN , LAV AslHK I'AICTY. - i As lo the duty of patriots to ny niimrty coiisiderat ions Morton s:iid: "I 1'. j li.-ve that the masses of men of all parties I are ov:i!. and are united in their de;, ri initiation to maintain our t;overniii"iii. howI ever luiM'h they may differ Upon other ! points; and 1 do simerely hope that men of ! II parties will be wiliiir,' to siii.oid.riiite j their peeuliar opinions to the leat nliisr 'of preservitis; our nalioiial honor and eist-
t'llee. His critii isin of I M-inoernts w ho did not follow this eourse and "si and by the president," was: "Whili' pnlriots tli"ii.'at only of tmviiiK tlieir eounlry. these men have thought only of saving tlieir party."
lie said: "Suppose the rit'Mdetii is oi nie opinion that the .lest met ion of slavery is an important instrumentality for the de-mie-tion of the rebellion, und suppose the gentleman difters with him on that point, wh'nh opinion is to coverii? l.imoin is President Htid Melioiiald is not. I.inioln is aetiti-- under the oalh of otliee and Melioiiald is not; and Miliotiabl has no ri'ht to oiiupy the position of a neutral between tbe Covern-
mnt ami Hie relH-iiioii. in iaei, inere inn i
creased costs in the maintenance of our Statu affairs and our State institutions. He ought to have known, then, as he admits he knows now, that these increased expenditures of money were necessitated by our increased
he un neutrals in tins war. i here is no
half-wnv house. There is no plan- in the rrrnuth our additinn.il Institutions- and
Constitution where n man ran stand midway I between the rebellion and the i b.v. in men i ."' J the increased cost of living. The sanif
There Hie many other rexpeets in mIiu-Ii Morton's words fall like a lash on his pro-
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olemrnts that entered into these rests
feseri followers of today, ii.re is what h iurin- Hie administration of Covernor HHld of the "const riletlW Cl'l t lei sill of 1 Sfi t : "The iriih i-,ii of one who is friendly to ! Hal -ton. has entered into and has ,he .H.vetnme,,. ami who U an xu tlil (.:n.., n,idüional Inrreasps InHn tbn
K II 71 II Sil ceeii Ii mi lie preserved, ni im : - - r
points .mi its errors ; that ih.y may ie ürM v,..,r of Governor Goodrich, and reeled, is wlmllv dlflen tll Ironi the ieii"t. ! -iai Ion whii h .s.'. Ur h. hriii' the i ...m i nment i at 1ho lose of the fisral year October into contempt iiml render it oil.oiis to t !i i 10-10 : t-v p..opi... ther.i.y with.irawin- from H thai , 11. if any Democrat rares to natiimi Kiipport m. n-i eirv to its life, j oon).,are the per capita cost of onr when slniL'iJnm lili i imum-iIuI etxtny. 1 Th ..ne can never u mistaken im th. j State institutions during the first two " President l.imoin made some mistakes. ! v.-ars of the present administration and Morion i.-.lie.t it; l.-ii here K wl.r.t h. . , t tw() v of tl aston had to ay m answer In the President h . ,,. , . "riil,.: julitMiiistration he will find that t lie un' h Krninhiinz fienpi. l.y nature. -,st pemorratlr Administration will ununhie at the President, imt. consider-: . f. , h romnarison ltK th- t iv inir . innmstan.es. Mr. l.imoin n 1 sm,tr inP comparison. i,s done his duty m.i.n lie is more than j Govcrrior Goodrich's Conduct man who should not make some mistakes tnnler sin h in iiinsiam es. The people have ! An Endorsement of Democrats.
a Inor.Mii:!! cotivieuon oi ine i iisiunu s uuln.'achalile loynlty. If he has cumin it ted errors, Ihejr are of ' the head, and not of the heart."
NOT TIIK TIMi: TO ls I SS T I Ti lt V., There were those at that (lav who, Mk Chairman Will II s s , thought the impoitHiil thini; wan. In decide what should he done lifter the war. Motion's answer to them was this: "It would he folly, th most criminal, th. most preposterous In the world'M history, were we to panse iimlilsl our efTorls, tu 1UCUSB the terms of future sei t lenient, while rehel armies are still in Ihe lieht, inenai iiit
REMARKABLE FORESIGHT.
INDEPENDENT EDITORIAL.
(New York Sun.) "W are at war with Spain, penr cniu. missions ami pence Juhilees to the contrary notwitlistHiiiliiiK. I'pon Presi.lenl McKlnlfv
Several days atro the l.'.-pulillcati Stat i ..in in 1 1 1 ee aiiiooiiii id thai it had post ...ie.l Uli Speilkillk' IM. el ilia's I i t.d.er "I. Mild !..elli..r tloodriih teiU.sei I lie 1 1.111 ... rxis I.. !.. Ihe same. I'hairman Van
Nuvs declined und a.ilioiiiiicd the I n I n t Ion I a ml his adiiiinist ral ion are yet the hiiriletn to I...I.I meet Int's in ....Hilles i htji had f '.' M ,, r,.s,K.usl l.l I i t ies of a Male of war not
over un i... .'I. "i ; Irlcirs state Health P-oard culled all ii.f I it u s tT till midnight 'f Oitol.er ..!.
'Ihe vision oT onr irr.nl wait vwiiiii in fores.eilik' t lt Mac ilale I which the t II ! safeguard of Ihe Sla'c wouid a'low ui-'lug I aluiost iiiicanny.
yet terniinrt ted. And ii(on nil patrioll.- cltlnens of every pollll.al parly restK the diitjr of puppoi I Ini; the Hilnilnlsiratii.il mid auatttliilnij I'.ie nitl. .it's cause tiirainsi all totrlKll euemles. both by Voice uuii by Vol.
flovernor fJoodrich opened li is rampain in 191fi at Creencastle. In his stu-.'ch he severely criticised the mann.JXt'inent of the State institutions; he not only charged mismanagement, but he quoted figures showing their Inrrcasoil cost of maintenance, and showing differences in the cost of supplies for the different institutions. It is not necessary for me to point out reasons and facts which justified these increases and differences. Oovernor
II. life of ihe tiMilon. l.et us. then, with j c ;)0,lri(.h'a own conduct since he has united. Iieartv and undivided attention, ad-, dr.s,- ourselves to the ureal task oi .lest roy- i Im'cu in ofiice, is sufficient proof that in- the military power of the r. U llion." I rith(ip i,p .va fenorant of what Iip win There were those al that lime who pro- CMintrm w as ignorant oi V, nai ne W as fess.d lo he much alarmed at ihe rcai p..w -1 alling. or else be was purposely misers t.clni; exercised hv the l Jovei nmcnt . and asked, as thev are asking now, what if such I representing the facts, In order to delM::h,nS;;:'",1 "' llm "f ",H,"r 0t the people and thereby be elect-
'Some politicians seem to Ignore the fart that there Is n vast diiTercnce l.ctweeu war am! peace, and Insist that war shall l.e cartied on just as we carry on pi ace. They do not comprehend thai war, from its very nature, involves the exercise of powers which in lime of peact art unnecessary, iiml are prohihited." And liually, Morton had no delusions us to Hie importance of the national executive U iir,' sitppot ted hv local oftii'ialx w in. were in thorough sympathy with him. At to thin he sa id in 1MU : You umli-rstniKl that at this time, nlx.vr ill oilier. Ihe position of 'h!cf r.Vecllthe of a St;tle is of vast Importance, much more no than at any former per I oil in iIP hlslorv of our Slate or nation. If the Pieiullve "s not disposed lo support the (iovertunent hy every means at his command; If hin s m path les are not with the National (iovfriini.nl. he has it In hin power to cast treat diltinilties, almost InsuperaMp tllltieitlt I. n. In the way of the National tJovet ntnetit. Hence. It brcouie your duty to know exactly bow tautiri the man who solid l a your suffrage."
Zac. H. Stanley OF HARRISON TOWNSHIP -FOR--Auditor 0f uctunn,y Your Support Will Be Appreciated Election, November 5, 1918
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cd to the ofiice of Oovernor. He has hem In ofJiee now over nineteen months. During; the eampaign be professcd to know all about the management of the State Institutions. If be did not, he has had nineteen months in which to Inform himself. He has had a year and a half !n which to acquaint himself with the personnel of the management of our several state Institutions, and yet he has not filed rbarges of mismanagement, of malfeasance, or of misfeasance In office, against a single bead of our public institutions, but without exception he hag permitted them to remain in the
Having- ben selected for the office, I invite the Voters of Union County to look into my past as a business man, and vote according' to their judgement.
J. A. Stevens Candidate For e Commissioner First District Union County
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