TaÌˆgliche Omaha tribuÌˆne. [volume] (Omaha, Nebr.) 1912-1926, 1916-01-31

wants that preparedness which raises
ones common stock from 40 cents
10 48s in a year, Anl to this list of
immortals, let. us add that army Of
pursuivants of wealth and the camp
followers of power who always
want what their masters want. Shall
we doubt as we listen to the
c.amors Of that crew that it is the
voice OF the people and that con-
sequently everybody wants pre-
paredness. if only the other fellow
will pay Tor it?
But really now docs this ciamor
represent the wishes of the people?
HDw stands the case really when
we come to examine into what the
men upon our farms and In our
mills are thinking? DO the men in
our stores and offices share this de-
sire to fasten upou themselves the
burdens of untold millions which
shall continue through countless
generations in order to initiate a
system Of miiitarism which instead
Of aftording protection has plunged
Europe into the greatest war Of the
agesf We cannot and do 0 believe
it. The patient masses who must pay
the price in money now and in
blood and sorrow hereafter want
nothing Of the kind. They have no
press agents TO present their ideas,
they are not hiring moving picture
concerns 70 present their views, they
are sending out no blood curdling
stories depicting the tax gatherer
rampant upon every field of industry
hustling for more money to sustain
preparedness Quietly they go
about their business, thinking their
own thoughts. while the great
editors and the blatherskite iingaes
have assumed to represent them and
TO speak for them. That a great
awakening is in store is a perfectly
SAFE guess at this time. Wherever
farmer organizations have had a
chance TO express themselves they
have mol failed to condemn this
preparedness rot which the great
editors tell US is o popular. Where
labor has spoken its voice has not
upheld but on the contrary has con-
demncd what the titmouse poIiti-
clans nov tell us the people want.
Go into any factory take q poll and
the sentiment against this great and
wicked scheme to wiring more
money from the people will forever
upset the theory that the people
want It. The people do not want it
and what is more they will wreck
any party frat forces this thing
upon them. II the great men who
once directed the constructive poll
ie,es OF tile Republican party were
now upon the political stage they
would not fail 10 commit that party
to the right course. But they are
not here ane sometimes there are
pessimisrlc moments. when one must
feel that the party OF Lincoln is no
longer m argus bur Is rather inlitat-
ing that species of the crab that
wears its eyes In its tail and travels
backwards. But be this as 1t may
the people Of this country arc not
for the president policy Of pre-
pafedness. Windjamming may for
a time bear the semblaHte Of pop
ui1ntS we may as Goethe says,
know SO little and believe 50 much
that anything lchd enough may
sound Ike popularity but back OF
all that in this day and country,
there IS a s~abstannai element Of
sanity and common sense in the
people thar cannot b either sedueedI
Of stampedeA Here in tire it win
assert itself. We are not going 10
mortgage our future to Dcaeon
Morgan and the Army and Navy
league il order to increase either
generals or dividends by adopting
a system Of msdiseyai bsrhsrism.
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