Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1916-10-12

the north at the expense of the south.
Thus he appeals to the local .preju-
dice of his northern hearers and as
sumes that the republicans should
make their party sectional and get
control of the government, not for
the benefit of the whole nation, but
to further the interests of the section
where the republican party is domi.
nant. MIR. Manahan handles the
tariff issue very awkwardly, as a re-
publican. because he is al heart op.
posed to protection and knows that a
protection tariff is class legislation
taxing the many for the benfit of the
few-and he believes also that while
the republican tariff laws have bene-
fitted northern men more than men of
the south, the benefit has accrued to
the few at the expense of the farmers
and working people both north and
south. He was a radical free trade
democrat until a few years ago and
while he is now acting with the re-
publican party, he has in no way
changed his opinions on fundamental
questions of public policy. In charg-
ing that the democrats are taxing the
northern people more heavily than
the republicans did, he is presuming
on the ignorance of the average voter
In the republican tariff laws since
they first came into power, very few
products in common use have been
exempt. Everything made of wood,
iron, steel, wool, cotton, leather or
glass have been taxed to the limit by
the several tariff laws enacted by the
republicans and this tax bore more
heavily on the northern people than
those of the south because the north
ern climate made it necessary to use
more and Heavier clothing and larger
quantities of lumber, hardware and
other building material.
Mr.. Manahan scouts the assertion
that Wilson has kept US out of war.
He says nobody wants to go to war
and that Wilson could not get US into
war if he tried. In this statement
he is not quite truthful. There are
a few men who want to go to war
a very few-but there are thousands
of republicans who want Wilson to
send an army into Mexico and subju-
gate that people. They talk loudly
of patriotism and national honor and
the American flag, but they do not
want to go to war themselves nor
have their w m go to war. They
others to do the fighting. 1t is
easy to get a hundred thousand men
and m to march in a prepared
ness parade, but few are offering
themselves as recruits for the enlarg-
ed army authorized by the recent law.
Nevertheless, it is likely that if
Wilson should send an army into Mexi.
to SUPPRESS Caranza, Villa and other
forces, or send an ultimation to Ger
many, or to the allies and undertake
to back up his demand by a naval
force, as Roosevelt promises that
Hughes will do, he could get US into
war. In his diplomatic correspon-
dence with Germany he induced that
nation to modify its submarine poll.
cies so as to conform to the establish
ed rules of modern warfare, and he
is cooperating with the nations of
South America in an endeavor to
settle the Mexican question without a
war of conquest. 1t is probable he
will succeed, if reelected. If Hughes
is elected it is likely our army will
Mexico, or some such autocrat
as Diaz was, will be given authority
and the whole Mexican question will
revert to what it was five years ago..
j. H.. Sheets.
Iona, N. Oak, Oct. 9th, 1916.