The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1918-10-10
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the creating. Of great shipping indus
try that shall he amply sufficient to
carry all our products to every mart and
port Of the world. After the close Of
this terrible conflict with the warning
countries OF Europe. all hut desert
waste, their great institutions OF every
kind destroyed and staggering, as they
will be, under their terrible, unbearable'
burdens of taxation-all this will tend
TO bring about the lowest wage scale
for the working people Of these coun-
tries the world has ever known in mod
ern times therefore, unless we have a
protective tariff that will equal the diff
ference in the cost of production at
home and abroad we will find the
American markets showing a prefer
ence for the products of other coun-
tries. all to the detriment of American
working men and women.
Partisan Politics.
Men and women Of Kentucky, I sub
init to you that this is not the hour
for partisan politics, but II is the hour
of one hundred per cent Americanism.
The President of the United States
doubtless wished to be taken at his
word when he said; politics Is ad-
journed," and propose to fight this
battle of the ballots with that phrase
as my slogan. Neither do | intend to
he turned from the proper course of
this campaign by the vicious stabs of
the partisan press or the loud hurrahs
and cries of the selfish oflice-holdlng
partsans. / submit to you, patriotic
Kentuckians, that instead of the parti-
san politics usually evidenced In Ken
lucky we are afforded an opportunity
now as never before TO exercise at the
ballot box that priceless privilege of
American citizens that our own gallant
boys are giving their life's blood in
Europe to maintain-that is a Govern
ment of the people, by the people, and
for the people" If that privilege-to
he freemen-tO be citizens-is worth
fighting and dying for, is ii not worth
our most sacred care here at home?
Then ignoring the partisan press, let
citizens by voting for whom we choose,
and according to the dictates of our
own consciences.
Therefore, / repeat, this is not the
time for partisan politics-it is not the
time to challenge mems patriotism be-
cause of differences of opinion regard
ing either religion or politics; but it is
a time when we should challenge and
must challenge any un-American acts
on the part of any and every citizen
IL is q time at which every mans pub
lie and private life is, so far as it re-
lates to his Americanism, must be
made subject to the most critical scru-
tiny
Certain extreme partisans among the
press of Kentucky, while admitting my
loyalty and patriotism, my honesty and
my sincerity Of purpose, are making
desperate fight against any one
voting for me for United States Sen
ator-one paper even going so far as
to say that the name of the man desig-
mated by thirteen men of his own po-
litical party and of his own personal
choosing is, In spite of everything else
that might be said of him, and in spite
of the way In which he was chosen as
the nOminee-notwithsta all these
things, this paper insists that his name
is the only name that the voters of
Kentucky have to vote for in order to
uphold the hands Of the administra-
ton and demonstrate their patriotism.
In answering this unjust criticism
this unmanly criticism-Of those who
see cause to support me, trust | shall
not go beyond the bonds of dignity
when | say that this kind of editorial
propaganda now being INDUCED in by
some of the leading papers of the OPP
pOsite political faith is the worst sort
of German propaganda that has been
permitted 10 be disseminated among
our people at any time during the course
of this war. II is on par with the
propaganda put forward by the COVER
nor of this state, who is my opponent,
in his veto of the German language
bill, which both Houses of the Legisla-
ture of Kentucky, at its last session,
passed almost unanimously, making II
unlawful to teach German in the
schools OF our state at,the expense Of
our taxpayers. In view of these facts,
IL my election would cause, as alleged,
joy In Berlin and gloom and sorrow in
Paris and London, can you imagine
how the kaiser would receive the news
of the election of my opponent, who
fayors the teaching of the kaiser's
language in our common schools at
public expense?
Then again, their plea that the only
way to show your loyalty is to vote
for Stanley is not only absurd, but
foolish. and approaches more nearly
10 yellow Journalism than anything
we have read in any Kentucky paper
since war was declared more than
eighteen months ago.
Perhaps l may be pardoned in this
connection for a personal allusion-
and nothing except the dissemination
Of propaganda favorable to the Ger
man cause could induce me TO refer 10
this matter In this manner-but, In an
swer TO this charge, l submit TO you
this one proposition for your careful
and serious consideration. You fathers
and mothers who have given your sons,
you wives you have given your com
panions, the fathers OF your children
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