The Detroit times., 1916-02-08
The Page Is a Fraud
Reminding Us of Some
Preparedness Patriotism

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Who is paying for preparedness pub
4 ucity with which the press of the coun
\ try is being flooded?
Somebody is, because newspaper
sven very PATRIOTIC newspapers whose
! editorial pages tremble every day lest the
I: armies across in Europe quit fighting
" %6nch other and attack the United States
s coIIectively - even these newspapers
&aren't in business for their health, or, we
4 think at times, anybody else's health.
Newspapers are receiving from Cleve-
lnnd, Ohio, the copy and cuts for page
lny-out booming preparedness.
The pictures sent along are those of
President Wilson. ex-President Roosevelt,
/ Gen. Wood, Senator Chamberlain, Con-
GKessman Gardner, all advocates Of pre-
( paredness, and of ex-senator Burton.
President Wilson wants preparedness
because it is the sense of the cabinet that
2 g i rood politics for him to want it.
It looks as if the president has had to
Z Tlve up his idea of world peace to keep
n Etoace in the cabinet.
M The president left Washington favor
lng = few more ships. few more guns
\ md ! few more soldiers.
4 4 By the time he got to Cleveland he
&1s disposed to add a few more ships, a
h IN more guns and few more soldiers
4 r. III program as already announced. and
tY TIE time he reached Kansas he was a
4 lo Gnting jingo.
President Roosevelt gets his pie
3o 81 the layout because-oh, what's
lh6 ussf
Everybody knows where "the Colonel"
(nm6o, has stood and probably always
3jl oEand on this subject. Look at the
4 )octives be uses.
# AZ 10 Senator Chamberlain - he
Wouldn't vote AGAINST compulsory
nslltaxy service, we're thinking.
H wants the school children drilled,
I'D touHht how to carry guns and how to
{rhcot STRAIGHT-that's how he wants
H public school and the public school
Gtound violated.
There's Congressman Gardner, he has
4 I'm living on gunpowder diet now for
NO years, and Gen. Wood, who vows by
3 n that is gold in the braid that dis
tnGui1hee his army rank that our navy
Y xWUuldn't last 60 days in war.
Il r probably what Gen. Wood doesn't
know shout navies that has kept him
y the army.
Naxt comes ex-senator Burton, pacif-
q ~, whose picture Is sent along, perhaps,
X Gbr the part of the rose whose beauty
+ onaloo us forget the thorns.
Newspapers possessing a conscience
ms passing up the page.
The st. Louis Times did, denouncing i,
y - 3 fraud upon the American people.
The preparedness matter Is being sent
n ut from Cleveland, but under Wash.
& sinGton" line Of blank date, to be filled in
y g dive the impression that it has Jus,
arrived by wire from the national capitol
WHO IS PAYING FOR IT?
s. NOBODY signs this canned article from
Cleveland, dated Washington"
hut somebody had to arrange to have
y 4 written.
u Scmebody had to pay for making the
& >eufs that go with it.
81 Somebody had to pay for the typeset-
Il l11ng involved.
Goenebody had to pay for the clerica
vuEk Incidental to its mailing.
Homebody had to settle for the postage
Whose money was II?
Whose money is financing the cam
>nnrm for preparedness?
Iho money Of someone. most naturally
h6f,ea To PROFIT by preparedness
<:3V NO profits by preparedness?
No. who profit, of course, from wal
= munition makers and money lend
ndpr II we have a clue?
~ Navy League of the United
q composed of body of pa
who are for preparedness.
ucnt moro ships, more guns and