Arizona republican., 1916-03-17
Knows We Need an Army.

In his rooms in the house office building sits congressman from interior southern state who is member of the house committee military affairs. He is a democrat and :s-or at last accounts, at least, was-supporting the administration in it's struggle get bill through for increase in the army. In past years he has something of a pacfst-a small army man. His district is small army district He has changed his mind since the world mad in August 1914. and believes in greater measure of preparedness; and anyhow. he is administration and wants back up the democratic policy
 But his desk is pile of letters from the folks back home that clammy sweat to moisten his brow he reads them They mostly in cheap envelopes, with no printed returns. A good many of them superscribed in pencil and others in that sem-invisible blue ink which discloses the intimate domestic detail that mothers bluing raided for pigment wherewth to eke the dust and flies legs in the bottle that half full of ink only last summer when wrote to Brother Anson's folks in Colorado. Quite considerable sprnkling of these letters have R. F. D. them
 Such letters-make here-are sure of nightly respectful and even perspiratory reading on the part of any congressman who wants to come back; for they written by people who are not in tEe habit of dctating pile of mail to be dashed off by stenographer by They written in much travail and with many protrusions of the tongue. stiffened and chapped hands in. the pe- numbrae of kerosene lamps kitchen tables a times wher their writers would far rather be in bed after hard days work. They express the fixed opinions of hard headed even if headed. people.
 And when they tell this congressman that he may well resign if he supports this new policy of mili tarism which Wilson has been hornswoggled into by the munitions makers and the armor makers and the professional army and navy men, you may say that their writers misguided, deuded. oblvious of great national peril; but that doesn't make it any easier fer this congressman.
 You are in favor of his voting he thinks, or at least he believes his people would if they knew what he knows; but the chances are that you have only one vote, and that the one you have will not be cast in his district even if you remember to vote Take it from who knows that congressman is n 10 of had fiy II n the Saturday Evening Post.
 It is natural to indulge in the illusions of truth, and listen the song of that Siren till she transforms into beasts
 Are we disposed to be of the number of those who, having not, and having hear not the things which nearly their temporal saliva ton? For my part whatever anguish or spirit it may cost l am willing to know the whole truth to know the worst, and provide for it.
 I have but one lamp by which my feet guided, and that is the lamp of experience know of no of judging of the future but by the past-Patrick Henry.
 William Jennings Bryan captain of presidential campaigns or as the hero of the chautauquas has long been famliar figure the stage of American public life. But MT. Bryan conductor of a Bible class is another and little known character. The Congregatonalist an instructive account of him in this role.
 At Miami. Fla. I have Bryan arouse such enthusiasm in Bible class I have any where else the writer says. Such the interest that the class threatened to into the entire auditorium of the church.