The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-11-07

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rule at home-are hopeful of
taking congress away from the

rule at home-are hopeful of
taking congress away from the
the president. They care nothing
for party labels. Southern Dem
ocrat or New England Republi-
can, or Northwestern bipartisan
gangster-all are alike in their
eyes so long as they will fight
Woodrow Wilson and block his
plans for wider human freedom.
Otto H. Kahn of Kahn, Loeb
& Co., for one, has issued a PAM
phlet aimed at the president,
and called "The Menace of Pa
ternalism.
Congressman Fess of Ohio,
chairman of the Republican
congressional campaign commit
tee, speaking for the Lodge
Roosevelt crowd, has sent out a
statement attacking the presi-
dent and declaring: "Consider-
able confusion and doubt has
been created in the minds of the
American people as to the issues
of this war by various state
ments emanating from the presi-
dent to the effect that we were
fighting the war without mater
ial interests involved in Land
that the purpose of it was to
make the world safe for democ-
racy.'
"The Republican party be-
lieves, on the other hand, that
the most vital interests of the
nation are absolutely dependent
upon success in this war, and
that it is being fought by an
aroused people not so much, if
at all, to make the world safe for
democracy as it is to protect
the rights and institutions, and
the very independence, of the
United States ITSELF"
Fess is a political heir of the
late Mark Hanna. He no more
understands the progressive Re-
publicans Of the West than the
Underwood Democrats of the
Solid South understand the pro-
gressive democrats of the North
west. He is opposed to any more
democracy in Europe or Amer
lea. He wants American foreign
trade promoted by war; hence
he denies that the United States
is fighting without material
interest"
On Republican and Democra-
tic congressional tickets this
year are to be found both kinds
Of Americans-tho ores who
stand for presidents program
of human freedom, League of
Nations, and an end to the bur-
den of militarism and autocracy,
and the ones who stand for the
things that sent Germany to
war against humanity. Neither
party has a monopoly on the
men who, if in congress next
year, would stand by the presi-
dents program. Organized la
Dor and the organized farmers,
who have a stake in real democ
racy, are with him. Organized
business is against him.
Anti Wilson Propaganda.
Otto Kahn, by the way, may
be called upon by Secretary of
State Lansing to explain why he
uses a quotation from a speech
made by Lansing at Auburn,
N. Y, on October 18th, to rein
force his pamphlet opposing the
presidents domestic policies in
war time.
"The menace which I see,"
says the Wall Street Moses, lis
not in the deliberate will Of the
people, but in the fact that un-
der the emotional stress Of war,
under the patriotic impulse OF
the time, under the actual or fan
cied necessity of the war situa-
ton, tendencies are tolerated
and modes Of thought and action
permitted to gain a footing un-
opposed, which are apt to create
very serious problems upon the
return Of normal conditions.
''That menace is aggravated
by the fact that from a thor
oughly laudable and patriotic de-
sire to sustain the nations
spokesman and chosen leader in
the formidable difficulty and re-
sponsibility Of his task Of con-
ducting the war, we are all re-
luctant to raise controversies,
and most Of us would rather
swallow our convictions in 81
lence. at whatever discomfort to