Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1918-03-26
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ments and questions.

mentS and questions.
Mr.. Roberts is the servant of all
the people of the state of Nevada in
the lower house. When Germany's
inhumanity to mainland little chill.
dren and old women-forced America
to take up the question of preserving
its own honor, and protecting its peo-
pie from the Huns homicidal fury,
Nevada's representative in congress
voted against the war measure. That
vote said, eloquently:
Let Germany alonei It's none OF
our business"
When an outraged nation, speaking
! through its more patriotic members
of congress, passed that resolution,
Edwin +. Roberts voted against the
| appropriation to carry the war TO n
successful conclusion.
That vote said-almost belligerent-
ly:
"Ill not vote n dollar for protection
against Germany. even II we are at
war with her. It's none of our bust
ness"
Good God! Mr. Humphreys! even
La Toilette did not dare TO descend
to that depth of paltroonery. He, the
man whose name Americans no long.
| er utter, except in anathema, would
| not keep from his own people, after
| that people had entered the war, the
most vital weapon for its winning
| LaFollette voted against the wal
measure, but he voted for the appro
| priation after America went in.
Nor is that all.
Edwin E. Roberts voted against tbs
present draft measure.
H.
heard not the pleading of Americas
| dead that rode the seven seas
bleached monuments to the infamy
of humanity's greatest menace.
Secondly: He would deny tn,
guns, the food the ships, the trans
portation to his own people for theil
defense.
Lastly: These things having beer
| forced upon him. he would figh
against the raising of an army t
help right the wrongs of his own PEG
pie or to assist in the preservation o
principles upon which all civilized ma
lions are founded.
Mr.. Roberts, famed in the world o
wit and humor as the champion seeC
distributor Of the universe, and per
haps the most enthusiastic patron o
the d-Hand-Shaking-Art II
the western hemisphere, is also a pro
digiously ingenious eXplainer.
He says he had received more thai
a thousand letters and kilograms from
mothers asking him to vote agains
the war measure.
Listen, Mr.. HUMPHREYS! Try an
find out If any of those letters cam
from the mothers of little childrel
murdered on the Lusitania. Find on
so that you may tell the loyal peopl
of Nevada, If most OF these letter
and kilograms did not originate Il
and about the section of this state
where. recently. TO the shame of tn
west, celebration marked the II
ports of the sinking of the America
troop ship Tuscania-just as the sinh
ing of the Lusitania was celebrated 4
Berlin.
When one thousand mothers writ
to congressman, Mr.. Humphrey
it means that one thousand mothers
p hearts are speaking -some very sci
/ iOus thing in the mothers mind /
| moving-prayer. resentment, solici
tude. dread, hatred.
; Think! Could these letters possibl
come from some OF the mothers O
!
dcTcd in the waters OF the Atlantic, o
the Mediterranean, in all the hel
holes Of all the seas where German
plies her trade OF world destruction
killed in their homes, in hospitals, a
play in the streets of peaceful vii
ages?
4 baby's life against ton OF corn
y mothers life against a carcass G
beef!
That's really just what it means
figured out in Gcrmany's scicntifi
schedule of weights and measures
her beloved kultur system. 1t is he
price list of the seas.
Letters from one thousand mott
ers.
A mothers heart, Mr.. IIumphriei
is a mothers heart all the way aroun
the world, and they whisper to eac
! other, too. these mothers hearts: 1
, the turmoil of the day, in the silenc
Of the night, always. through tn
centuries. II will always be So The
speak with an cloquenCe and with
terrible meaning and power of whic
men know but little. SO when tn
Germans kill babies and children
and women and old mcn. and do |
again and again. the chill of drea,
and resentment and rcd.hatrcd cir
Cles the earth swiftly and sinks deel
into the breasts Of all women, ant
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