Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-06-20

son, he said, is we'll meaning man OF
great book learning, but is visionary
I! impractical, wholly theoretical III
public matters.
/ Opposite sat q democrat whose ear.
I began to prick up and whose eyes be
gan to snap as our republican FRIEND
proceeded to unfold his ideas. "My
| friend, at last said the democrat
who could contain himself no longer
| you yourself, without knowing it, are
disloyal to the American cause. We
cannot afford to swap horses in the
middle OF the stream. The defeat O
| the democratic party, whose titula!
head is Mr.. Wilson, would be equiva
lent to the defeat of Mr.. Wilson him
self; and his defeat at this time
would tend to discredit America in thu
| eyes of the world. No, sir, the re
publican party cannot afford to e
before the world with such theories a.
you entertain, for whatever the in
tentions may be, the result of turnins
out democratic congress would re
fleet upon the American administra
ton and weaken the American position
! in this great awr."
About this time some one few
seats further along mentioned the
| farmers organized movement in the
northwest IF the old parties, con
tinued the banqueter down the line
don't watch out in the campaign this
fall, they won't have anything worth
while to look after when the votes are
counted next November"
Instantly our republican and our
democratic friends were all ears
CHANGING at each other across the fes.
tive board, meaning but sickly smile
slowly spread over their classic fea-
lures. Finally our democratic friend
spoke. Maybe We'll have to pool
our interests against this bunch!" he
said.
The popularity of she situation i'm.
pressed itself upon us. The demo
cratic fight must be made this fall
upon the very theory advanced by our
democratic friend at the table. If his
reasoning is well founded, our repub-
lican friends, whatever their profess
siors, are pursuing what amounts to
a disloyal course in undertaking to
supplant the democratic party and to
that extent rejecting upon the Amer
jean administration. Our republican
friends can win upon no other ground
than that the democratic. party has
shown itself to be incompetent and
not worthy of the continued confidence
of the American people.
And yet when our fapmer friends
appear with a well defined plan of
their own, protesting the utmost low
atty to the American cause and pleds
ing themselves to uphold the hands
or the national administration. our re-
publican friends virtually belle their
own position in the campaign when
they characterize the new movement
as inimical to American interests.
Most assuredly, if the contentious of
the republicans are well founded, the
democratic party is wrong.
Similarly, if the new movement
among the farmers is based upon rea.
son and Justice, both the democratic
and the republican parties are wrong.
That both are wrong is inferred from
the fact that President Wilson is com
PEELED to inject the full force of his
personality to secure the passage Of
needful measures to enable him prom
erly to, prosecute the war. Neither
the democratic nor the republican
party is whole-heartedly with the
national administration. Both must
be forced by Mr.. Wilson into render.
Ing belated though reluctant support,
The matter of proper adjustment
of our laws relating to taxation for
war purposes is a case in point. Mr..
wilson and the farmers movement in
the northwest stand shoulder to Shout
der in demanding adequate laws gov
erning national revenues. They are
in absolute agreement with reference
to profiteering Both the democratic
and the republican parties have stood
IN the way OF an equitable adjustment
OF these measures. If, finally, wise
and adequate laws are adopted. ii
VIII be due, not to the meanagers of
either the democratic or the repubfi-
can party, but to the wisdom and
foresight and force of Woodrow vii
sen whose personality has impelled
and compelled attention.
For months and months political
newspapers and Political managers
have been denouncing the farmers,
movement for advocating the very
ideas and principles which President
Wilson so ably and forcefully cham
Ipioned in his special message to CON
.gress a few weeks ago, when he an
peared before the august law-making
body in person to demand a revision
OF our unjust and almost incompre-
3hensible measures relating to taxation
for war purposes.
And in spite Of the presidents per.
sonal attitude. political newspapers
and political managers will continue
70 hesitate to follow the presidents
advice and will do so only as last
resort, and will continue to denounce
the farmers movement as a class
breeding organization.
HOUSEHOLD CARES,
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