The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-11-09
WHICH WAR ?

post offices were flooded with appeals 10 Help WILSON Wild
lhe war" This was, of course, all prepared and printed
while politics-at the presidents request-stood adjourned
and before his unprecedented appeal of a week ago Tor the
defeat of julius Kahn and the 40 republicans who placed pa
triotism above party to help him win his first war with Champ
Clark. speaker; Claude Kitchen, floor leader; Dent and Pad
gett. the chairmen of the two war-making committees, and
other leaders of the presidents party.
That was Wilson'S war, and if Julius Kahn and the 9TH
ers whose defeat the president now asks had not won that war
for him in America, right under the dome of the capitol of
this republic. we could not have entered the war in Europe
that we are now asked to Help wilson WIN.
The states that did so much to help Wilson win his first
war thought they We're helping the democracies of the world to
win the war in Europe, but they were not saying much. And
The Tribune is going to say things now that a good many mil
lions of Americans have been thinking and not saying, and
would not say now, but for the presidents unprecedented ap-
peal for a one-party government. And that one party con-
trolled by the Kitchins, the Dents and the Champ Clarks.
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For instance. between May r and October "a, the day be-
fore the president issued his appeal, the total American casu-
allies in Europe were 1874. Prior to May 4 home addresses
were not given.
The people of Pennsylvania thought they were helping
America and France and the other democracies to win the war
in Europe when they had contributed 6752 of their men to this
casualty list against 6671 for the twelve states of Alabama, Ar
kansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi,
North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas ana VIZ
GINA.
They thought, having contributed more men from their
state to this casualty list than the twelve states in the group
that supports the Kitchens, the Dents, the Padgetts and the
McLemores, they were helping America their country-to
win the war to make the world safe for democracy"
When ~ of the other Sc states had contributed 29,SSo
men to this casualty list against 66H for the II states above
named, the people of these states that helped Wilson to win
his first wal thought they were helping to win the war
iii Europe.
And they wanted a voice in their government.
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When the people of these states read from the report Of
the revenue commissioners, issued Sept. 14th, that the IL states
controlled by the Kitchens, the Dents, the Padgetts and their
following had contributed 1927 100000 of taxes for the last
po1 .. I'D tL"o nIhon A . ctofoC hnd oOpfpitntn0 & > e
100000, or about ten times as much, in taxes, they thought
they were helping to win the war in Europe, having elready
won for him the war that they thought was Wilson's war.
And they were not using it to elect partisan candidates.
But they wanted a voice in their government.
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When 200 out of every 1000 people in Iowa contributed
to the third Liberty loan, against 33 in Mr.. kitchins
state, they thought they were helping to win the war in
Europe. having already won for Wilson his war against
Kitchen. Clark and their following.
When 234 in Pennsylvania in every 1000, against 46 in
Alabama: 25 in New York against 81 in Georgia; 23 in Mas
sachusetts against 81 in Florida; 20i in Michigan against so in
Mississippi: 257 in Illinois against 10 in Louisiana; 239 in
Montana against % in Arkansas; pa in New Jersey against %
in South Carolina; 2Si in Connecticut against % in Tennessee;
when 300 in every 1000 in South Dakota against 7S in Virginia
subscribed to the Liberty loan they thought they were helping
America and the other demOcracies to win the war in Europe,
having already helped Wilson win his war in Washington,
against the representatives sent by the people of those states
where slackers, if any, lived.
But they were silent.
They thought they were winning a war and not a political
campaign.
And they want a voice III their government Wnen IN
problems of peace come.
When the people of the states that contributed six-sev-
enths of the taxes saw that the war expenditures in their
states were as 81 compared with $3.50 in the states that con-
tributed the other seventh, they did not complain, because
they wanted to win the war i'm Europe. They would do team
work, if they had to be the whole team.
But they wanted a voice in their government when peace
problems came.
When the people of these states that contributed in the