Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-10-12
CONGRESS QUITS
WITHOUT ACTING
Fail to Pass Legislation Thai
Would Have Saved Drafted
Mems Property.

81 am being robbed OF all possess. 10
This was the distress cry received yes
terday bv the district appeal board
from an Oklahoma soldier now al
Camp Travis.
lie was small farmer in one OF
the counties composing the Tulsa dls-
trct. lie was drafted under the con
scription law, taken away from ms
family and crops and sent 10 me Train
ing camp.
Altho he did not say so. II Is in
fcrrcd that his crops and perhaps ms
liv, stock-maybe his home-we IN
der mortgage and the persons Wh"
hold the mortgages are preparing 20
seize his property under foreclosure.
At any rate. i'm some manner this
soldier. who has been taken from his
family and his possess. ons rs being
robbed Of all he has'-robbed under
the laws Of the government for whose
peace. security and liberty has mas
gone 10 fght
The Law Gave No Relief
C1n nothing be- done 20 save this
mans property while he is away night
Ing his country's battles
IL seems not Congress adjourned
last saturday without passing the civil
fights bin which would have proh!t-
itcd the foreclosure OF mortgages on
any soldiers property while he Is serN
ing ms country on the battlefield. The
house after dilly-ddllying with The
measure for weeks, finally passed II
the day before adjournment. but II did
not pass the senate. SO u died.
The civil rights bin would virtually
have declared moratorium on all
pending Dbl cations Of the nations sol
diers and saved their property for them
untI they return
II ever there Wa1 a meritorious
measure n would seem thai IN" civil
rights BIN WAS one n should have
been promptly passed by both houses
as soon as proposed and made law
But it wasn't
Washington d spa 'ches say n never
had auy chance Of ia-sage in the SEN
ate because rho honorable senators
said II was unconstitutional" This
has ever been the defense OF the hon
orahlc senator's when they didn't wish
10 pass "A given measure.
But the "Sammies" who have been
sent 10 war cannot understand how
II is any more unconstitutional for
the government to prevent money
erabbers from robbing them while
they are away than IL Is TO take them
from their families and their business
aud lcud them 10 the European
trenches
Great Injustice Committed.
II is admitted that the governments
failure 20 make adequate provision for
the protection OF It's soldiers property
while they are away fighting is great
injustice A. result. thousands of
mortgages may be fOreclosed within
the next year and soldiers families
thrown out OF their homes upon the
public charities by heartless money
lenders. for unfortunately greed Il
constituencies and there are men in
Oklahoma and every state whose love
OF money is 50 great that they viii
not hesitate TO grab a soldiers home
or his land while he IL away and is
helpless.
Rogers Investigates Case.
Secretary Harry II. Rogers OF the
appeal board has written the county
attorney OF the county whore the sol
dier lives who wrote the letter quoted
and asked him TO make an investiga-
tion and report back at once.
II the complaint is substantlatcd
an effort may be made 20 obtain a fur
Tough OF some weeks 10 let the soldier
come back and look after his property
and Try 10 protect IT,
III there is no way my property
can be saved. wrote the soldier
won't YOU obtain for me a leave OF
absence that 1 may go home and look
after it,
Millions for Other Things.
The government Is spending mil
lions 90 conserve food. funds are being
raised 20 buy the soldiers tobacco and
cigarcts women are knitting SOCK
and sweaters for them, but no fund
has been raised or is being raised ant
no provision has been made to pro
tect the families OF soldiers In theil
property rights while the husbands
are away at war.
Thousands Of men have been denied
exemption by local and appeal boards
all over the country who should no
have been sent to war. Mistakes have
been made They could not be avoided
In the rush work of raising the ma
tion's army. These men, or many o
them. have mortgages on their home
or other property.
Is there not some way to stop thos
who would take an unfair advantag
of these soldiers? The governmen