The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-15

is a politician before he is a patriot.
He would seek his own reelection as
he came upon horseback up the bloody
highway of contendlng armies The
American people have never yet re-
undated a war president and never
will. We are naturally a red-blooded,
fighting race. OF course, our army
could invade Mexico and march in tri-
umph to it's capital, but after the war
was over other armies would march
an army of widows and orphans, an
army of cripples and men broken in
health. an army of pensioners, and an
army of tax collectors gathering up
the earnings of the people to pay the
great war debt. All America wants
peace-peace with honor.
Shipping Bill.
The Republican party defeated by
filibuster the shipping bill proposed
by the Democratic party, which, if it
had been enacted, would have made
of railroad SidetrackS crowded by the
products of the American factory and
the American farm by enabling us to
get shipments abroad and we would
by this time have been enabled to
have merchant marine to take the
products of the field and the factory
and the mines to the hungry markets
of Europe. They offer to the United
States the often proposed and always
defeated subsidy to the shipowners to
be paid out of the treasury of the
people of the United States. This
time they call it by the name of sub
vention, but it means, of course, the
taking of the peoples money to enrich
a few men. They seem to be perfect
ly willing to take the public money
and give it to other people to operate
shipping abroad, but they are utterly
unwilling that the government of the
United States shall with the people s
money purchase these ships and OPP
crate them if private capital is not
willing to do so without subsidy or,
as they call it, subvention from the
treasury, and whatever profit was
made by the governments operation
would go into the public treasury.
The Republican platform proposes a
su bsidy to the shipowner, the profit
going into their pockets. In other
words, it is willing for the United
States to pay the loss, if there is any,
in operating the ships when it is done
by private capital, but unwilling for
the government to render the service
| if private capital will not undertake
it.
Republican Platform.
The Republican party, seeking some
issue, just any issue upon which to
hang the slightest hope of returning
to power, is driven to the necessity
of denouncing in its own platform,
adopted at Chicago, the vote of a ma
jority of it's own members in the house
and senate upon practically all of the
/ reform measures that have been writ
ten into law by the Democratic party.
They declare we favor an effective
system of rural credits as opposed to
the ineffective law proposed by the
| present Democratic administration. "
| By this declaration they charge prac-
| tically every Republican in the SEN
ate and almost every Republican in
! the house with having voted for an in
| effective rural credit law, which has
| no sod hot he 70 md Tr,
| the senate the vote was ST to 5, in the
house 295 to 10. I suppose this de-
nunciation of their fellow Republicans
was caused by the fact that of the five
Republicans in the senate who voted
against the rural credits bill which
Oliver, and Wadsworth were members
of the subcommittee that prepared the
Repu b1ican platform, and they were
anxious to vindicate their own vote al
the cost of denouncing their Republi-
earn coIlea CUES.
+ The Republican platform says 'they
favor an effective rural credits sys.
tenn yet they proposed no substitute
to the bills that passed the house anC
senate, which are in a striking degree
! similar to the rural credits law OF
Germany which has reduced the ten.
| ants upon the farms from so per CEN
| to 10 per cent. The Democratic party
believes in a home building and LAND
owning population. 1t was our effor
and desire to make it possible fol
every man who titled the soil in Amer
lea to own the land and have home
| The Republican party in power forty
years since the Civil war has never
passed any law for their relief. ha.
never sought to cheaper credit, 20 en-
able them to become owners instead
Of tenants, but today they present tine
! re markable spectacle of adopting
platform which promises nothing. bu
i'll their anxiety to denounce Demo
cratic legislation have to include il
/ their wholesale condemnation nine
tenths of their own members Of tn,
senate and house of representatives.
l. The trade commission bill which
was passed for the benefit of the bust
ness of the country, to make plain tn,
law. to prevent monopolization of tn,
| industries OF the country, received
ma jority of the Republican and Bull
Moose members of the senate an,
house when it was placed upon it,
final passage. The Clayton anti-trus