The Jasper weekly courier., 1917-07-13

COUnlI. on cents pOund lOr pOWuei
until Daniels proved that it can be
produced for 81 and now these delect-
able patriots have found that they can
reduce their price from so to 53 cents
and still make a handsome profit.
"Josephus Daniels made it difficult
for the powder trust to steal-that is
his crime
"Befc~a Josephus Daniels time the
manu- eurers of armor plate were
subr.-,,iHg exorbitant bids without
and through the good old
pirate rule of addition, division, and
substraction. He had the honesty and
courage to reject the bids and force
competition which saved the nation on
three ships more than a million dol
lars. And even then the profit was
sufficient to permit them to hire men
20 poison with their pen the public
mind against the man who wrung
from them their million dollar graft
and restored it TO the public treasury.
"Josephus Daniels has made it
harder for the manufacturers of ar
NOR plate to steal-that is his crime.
"Ah, but they say the navy has ret
regarded under Daniels. Let's see:
Under Long and Moody S83,000,000
We're spent in the building Of new
ships; under Won Meyer S12S,000, 900
were spent; under Josephus Daniels
more than $685., 100000.
Let's see: Where we had a short
age of torpedo boats before Daniels
time, and had 100 when he went in,
the war and these constructed in a
+~1 @f
$1,000 on each one.
Lets see: When Daniels took the
reins we were 5000 short in the num-
Der Of enlisted men allowed by law.
He raised the standard of admission
and added more than 5000 more.
Lets see: The number of re-en-
lstments under Daniels has increased
from 53 to 90 per cent; the number Of
deSertions has fallen off from an av-
erage of 216 a month to 90 a month !;
and the number of prisoners has de-
creased from an average of 800 to
700.
with millions of dollars in loot
chopped off by the common honesty of
Daniels, with more ships, better and
bigger guns, greater efficiency in the
general staff, the finest record in tar
get practice ever made upon the sea,
and more men better satisfied and
more efficient than ever before in the
history of the navy-with more brain
and Drawn and less booze-more lib
erty for the men and less loot for the
interests-Josephus Daniels will go
down in history as one of the great
constructive minds of the Wilson ad-
miniStratiOn.
"If he can fight Germans as well as
he has fought greed, if he can fight
ruthlessness as successfully as he has
fought rapacity, his position in his
tory is assured.
"When Admiral Dewey, after sixty
years of service, wrote the private let
ter to his wife which she has given tC
the public to proclaim to Josephus
Daniels the greatest secretary of his
time, he tore the mask of patriotism
and respectability from the repulsive
face of cupidity and greed and placed
with which to crush the foul con-
able servant of the state.
The moment the roll call in congress:
ended on the declaration of war, the
navy, under Josephus Daniels, wa.
ready to respond 1t cleared the deck!
Immediately for action. And Will,
the peanut politicians and the cartinf
critics of the fleshpots clamoreC
against the navy and its chief, theil
sneers and snarls were drowned in th'
/ frenzied shouts of enthusiastic wei
come from Queenstown crowded
wharves as Americas fotilla of de
stroyers sailed IN from the open sc:
and reported ready for instant action
"When will you be ready?' asked
the British commander.
"We are ready now was the prouc
response.
"The record of Daniels was know
to Woodrow Wilson-that's the rea
son he called him to his side for 'fou
years more.
"The record of Daniels is known t.
Col. George Harvey, of the Nortl
American Review-and that's the rea
son he assails him, for it has beel
written that the ass knoweth his mas
ter's crib.
"The armor plate grafters hat
him, the powder trust hates him, al
the gluttons of greed hate him, an
their hirellngs OF the pen hate HIM {
the jingle of the coin. And becaus
they hate him the republic, when
comes to know him, will love him fo
|, the enemies he has made and the man
ner that he made them. Honest, ener
getic, wonderfully efficient-a con
structor and a creator-with a recor
never equaled in the history of tn
navy, we send our ships into tn
smoke of battle with a supreme fait
in the wisdom of Josephus Daniels.
Wilson and Mankind.
"And now let us immediate all part
thought upon the altar of the commo
: good, and granting full need @
praise TO the patriotism of Roosevelt
Taft, and Root, let US rally round tn
standard the genius that we gave tn
: nation as a leader in this the might
. lest war in all the tide of time.
: cannot think of Lincoln and Wilso
without the firm conviction that ther
is a divine direction in the destiny G
> the republic. The plain, homely, con
paratively obscure lawyer of Illinois
!. who reached the pinnacle of power b
passing by the seasoned politicians {
his time, now has his counterpart !
, the polished scholar who emerged
comparatively unknown, from the ella:
sic shades Of a university 20 pass tn
idols of a party by and grasp th