The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-02-22
.lLUM|NE LAND
LIKE BONFIRE
senator Fralley's Plain AnsIo-saxon
Language In National Guard
Resolutions May do
This.
WHAT THEY PROVIDE
question Of Churchman'S Clothing Is
the Bone Of Contention In
senats's Rsso-
Iutions.
WHAT THEY PROVIDE
~ The Gate sCityl

DIES MONIES. Feb. Ex-senator
Joseph r. Frailey, OF Lee. easily held
the center Of the stage this week in
ire legislature. The spot light left
Governor Harding and his economies.
Representative Rowley and his sale
Of the state house tract, johnson and
Fawood and their road bills, Hayner
and his threatened enforcement of
the blue laws. and the other more or
less interesting fights and settled
conferred on Senator Frailey.
Imagine the Iowa Legislature en-
gagged in q debate on English Htera-
ture! That is about what 1t amounted
TO In the record, but as usual the real
thing did not get into the journal Of
the senate.
Frailey Is q veteran national guards
man; a veteran of the war with
Spain, in which he filed we'll very
important brigade position; thorough
| ~ informed not only in military af-
fairs, but also well informed IN the
game of army life AZ It II in field and
camp. Hence, he knew what he was
| talking about; knew perfectly what
| his committee Investigation disclosed,
saw clear through the befogged at
mosphere around the lows guardsmen.
fog created to protect them in their
nudity after the war department had
| taken away all their clothes before
mastering them out OF Che federal
service.
Buneoins the National Guard.
The case is very simple. The Iowa
guardsmen entered the federal serv-
1 <oo Nj
BY the state and paid for when
bought. of course. During the Rio
Grande service these clothes were
worn, sometimes replaced when worn
| out. and the guardsmen returned to
Fort Des Moines wearing clothes.
Suddenly the war department ruled
that every man must pay the United
States of America the price OF new
suit OF clothes from undershirt to
cap and shoes, IL they wore them aft
er being mustered out OF the federal
service and the guardsmen had
nothing else to wear while parading
along Main street from the train in
their home town.
The Iowa legislature appointed a
Joint committee to investigate the
complaints Of the guardsmen at Fort
Des Moines awaiting muster out.
Frailey was one of that committee
from the senate. The committee held
meeting with closed doors and
threw the mantle Of protection OF the
state Of Iowa over the soldiers it
summoned to testify before it. F,rail-
ey and the others made 1t a real In
Professionalism means among 9TH
GER things that 1t was ready to report
IN few days.
Frailey wrote the report-and thus
made more excitement around the
capitol and the newspaper offices than
anybody lately.
FraiIey and Famous Author.
he wrote 1t exactly like Frailey is
Won't to talk in Fort Madison, or Keo-
kuk, or West Point, or Donnellson, or
Argyle, or Vincennes, or Denmark,
snen he is addressing his fellow citi-
ems on some topic OF the day which
ne considers important late in Octo-
per and early in November.
Fe himself modestly says that the
eport and accompanying resolutions
re merely good Anglo-Saxon which
the best source OF English undefiled
no undiluted and the kind to use
men one means what one says. He
aid on the senate floor that they are
written in the pink tea language
which President Wilson kids Kais-
that:
mis- fs no spontaneous outburst.
Is the result OF the evidence that
nis committee has had brought to 1t
yer since the first troops started
omlng from he border. It has re-
Ilted from the testimony OF the men
mo went to tho border to protect
als county. 1t was written in the
Anguage 1t contains to get the pro-
est OF these men before the proper
lnclals. 1t was not the purpose to
rue It in efghteeA languages or in
ne Kidding fashion that has been fol-
pWed IN some Of the Wilson-German
otes 1t was written in plain Anglo
a3on that we may properly convey
ne resentment our soldiers feel at the
eatment they have received"
ays Regulars Saved by Guardsmsn.
The resolutions certainly were as
cid as Billy SUNDAY and far more
.elhglole than anything Robert
pressions therein we're called too
eleeant by some senators who
ah1ed to change them to Latin and
ench derivatives. Among these
a reference to the action OF the
az department as 'fn bad faith" a.
.arauon that it Is 'un-American,"
Element that the action Is to foe-
discomfort within the guard and
oiscredit It; a statement that the
a,o was necessary to save the
OF the regular army, and that at
es with but poor grace from the
ncers OF the regular army to hide
mseiVes behind the Vaccinations
req tape for which they have been
,uSeservedly famous since the war
ioiz Tor the purpose Of insulting
numiliating the troops and en-.
sa men who saved their military
pueations in the recent concentra-!