The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1918-11-01
WAR IS THE FIRST Consideration BUT We MUST
PREPARE FOR PEACE, SAYS DR.. uNSTRUm IN SPEECH

meeting OF members OF the Republi'
can State Central Committee, can.
didates on the ticket and other pro-
minent Republicans, DR.. Lanstrum
said:
First and paramount, is the
question of the great war in which
we are engaged. This war is not
the war of any party or any group
of people. This war is a war of all
of our people, of all classes of peo-
pie. The Republican party was
brought into life by a war prosecut-
ed and fought to maintain unity of
this nation. The party has always
been the party of patriotism.
Everything that has been done by
u constituted representatives in
congress has been determined since
this war began by the effect of
what that act would have upon the
prosecution and winning of this
war. The responsibility of winning
the war should be the united task
of IN entire people. The Republi-
can party has given its best effort
in and out of congress to help win
the war. That it will continue to
do Sc goes without saying. That
it has done so without hope of par
tisan advantage is to its great cred
it If it had not been for the votes
of Republicans in congress the
great appropriations made for the
prosecution of the war and the
great powers conferred upon the
administration would have, in many
instances, failed. Seventy-two per
cent of the Republican members of
the house and senate have voted
for the wal measures as opposed to
67 per cent of the Democratic re-
personalities of the same bodies.
"The Democratic slogan in this
campaign will be that the nation
must stand by the president. With
this we all agree. That it is ne
cessary to vote the Democratic tick
ct and elect Democratic candidates
in order to do so, we do not agree.
The best interests of this nation can
be served and the greatest effect
iveness in the prosecution of the
war accomplished by congress be-
ing made up of men of the two par
ties. No difference in choice of a
man should be made because of his
being a Democrat or a Republican,
so long as he is one hundred per
cent American and is for the prose-
cution of the war to a victorious
conclusion. He should first be
thoroughly loyal, and second, ever
lastingly opposed to any peace
made that is not signed in the city
of Berlin and to any peace that does
not accomplish a complete restora-
ton of all territory occupied and to
reimbursement for all injury in
flicted. Anything else is folly and
the advocacy of anything less
should be a reason sufficient for the
loss of the votes of all American
citizens. In my judgment, a vigor-
Gus statement, outlining the party's
attitude upon the wal and the terms
of peace upon which the war shall
be concluded should be made the
first plank in our platform.
I'VE should again reiterate our
position and friendliness to the
cause of labor and pledge ourselves
to the enactment of legislation
looking to the betterment of the
condition of the laboring classes.
Careful consideration should be
given to just amendments OF the
compensation act that it may be
made to more justly serve the pur-
pose for which it was enacted.
Vigorous recommendation
should be made for legislation to
correct the condition resulting in
the high price of the necessities of
every day life and a strong plank
condemning the practice of profit
eering included in the platform.
"The people of Montana have en-
pressed themselves in no uncertain
way upon the question of prohibi-
ton and equal suffrage. Our can
didates, both state and national,
should be pledged to vote for ma
tional prohibition and national wo-
man suffrage.
1--WE should not be unmindful of
the fact that the great vote and sup
port that has made Republican sue
cess possible in the past, and with
out which it cannot be successful
in the future, has been drawn from
the agricultural districts and people
of this nation. Without the con-
fidence of the farmers, the Repub-
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