Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1918-11-01

IN 1aVOr OF war measures and have q
war record which deserves support.
"The voters Of Michigan, to take a
single example, are called upon to
support Mr.. Henry Ford notorious
for his advocacy of peace at any price,
for his contemptious allusion to the
bag, for the exemption Of his son from
military service-on the sole ground
that he will blindly support the Pres
ident
Republican Loyalty Questioned.
"The President is quite ready to ad-
NIT that Republicans are loyal enough
to fight and die, as they are doing by
the thousands; loyal enough to take
up great loans and pay enormous tax
es; loyal enough to furnish important
men at no salary on some of the great
war boards in Washington. But they
are not loyal enough, in the Presi-
dents opinion, to be trusted with any
share in the government of the coun-
try or legislation for it.
"If the Republican party controls
the House, we can point out some of
the things they will do. They will re-
place Mr.. Dent of Alabama at the head
of the military affairs committee with
Mr.. julius Khan, to whom the admin
istration was obliged TO turn for as
sistance to take charge of and carry
the first draft bill against Mr.. Dents
opposition. They will put a Repub-
lican at the head of the ways and
means committee, as leader of the
House, instead of Mr.. Kitchin of North
/ Carolina, who voted against the war.
who did not oppose and would never
oppose a draft bill and would, never
say, as Speaker Clark did, that There
is precious little difference between a
conscript and convict
G. o. p. Supports War Measures.
although the Republicans of the
House are in the minority, they cast
more actual votes on seven great war
measures than the Democrats major
ity was able to do. What is the rec
ord of the Senate? On fifty-one roll
calls on war measures between April
6, 1917, and the Goth of May, y91S,
the votes cast by Republicans in favor
of such measures were 70 per cent,
while only 81 per cent of the votes
cast on the Democratic side were in
favor of such measures. Those were
the Presidents own measures. Does
that record look as if we had hamp-
cred him? The Republican party in
Congress has supported the admins
tration policies since the war with a
unanimity and an absence Of criticism
unprecedented in party history.
"There are some domestic questions
where we should undoubtedly differ
from the course pursued by the adj
ministration, We should not, for ex-
ample, fix a price on the farmers
wheat and leave the planters cotton
untouched Another domestic ques-
ton in which the Republican party be-
|, lieves thoroughly is economic prepare
ton for the coming of peace and they
are clearly of the opinion that the
Congress of the United States should
not be excluded from that great task.
War is Business of All Americans.
This is not the Presidents personal
war. This is not the war of Congress.
, 1t is not the war of the Democratic or
the Republican party. 1t is the war
of the American people. 1t is more.
II is the war of the United States, of
the allied powers, of all the civilized
world against the barbarism of Ger
many. In this great burden and re-
sponsibility the Republican party, rep
resenting more than half the citizen
ship of the country, demands its right
full share. If the Republican party is
entrusted with power in either or both
houses they will do everything posi-
BILE to drive forward the war and has
ten the day of victory.
"The President speaks of the neces-
sity of telling the plain truth. That
the Republican party in control of
Congress would do, for they have no
friends to shield And they will do
more. They will give all the money
to the last dollar necessary to sustain
our armies and ourfleets, but they will
check the waste now going on of the
money given by the most generous
people on the face of the earth.
Effect Republican Victory on Germany