The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1918-07-05

it is part of a. war purpose for the
Government of the United States to
seize every law library in the United
| States to proceed to rent the law
books to lawyers of the United States
II you give war purposes such a
scope and breadth as that, then, of
course, all you have to do is to de-
clare war and at once all property be-
comes subject to seizure and can be
taken from its owner and handed over
to another under the pretext that a
war is being waged. This, indeed, is
the pretext of that eminent Mexican
bandit Pancho Villa, whose processes,
while more direct, were not different.
Let us see where this new doctrine
| takes us. Let US see how far this
amendment goes.
That any house or building not oc-
cupied by the owner or a tenant for
a period of three months immediate
ly preceding the passage of this act
And so forth, may be taken over.
Ninety days ago a man left the city
of Washington because he was sick,
to go to California for his health,
expecting to return as soon as ma
ture would permit. He comes back
the day after tomorrow, having
been gone 81 days, and he finds that
the Senator from New Hampshire
has legislated him out of his house
and home. Now, that may be a good
Socialist doctrine, it may be a good
bolsheviki doctrine, it may be a good
anarchist doctrine, but it is not a
doctrine that l have understood to
prevail where human rights were
under the protection of the old Con-
Stitution. I can find some Socialist
platforms that go almost to that
length, but / do not think l can find
one that goes quite so far. We must
cross socialism with anarchy to get
such an offspring.
TO gain attention as such a time as
this everything must be considered
IN this connection with the war.
therefore so conform my illustration
Imagine the case of widows Son
drafted into the army and sent into
camp somewhere in the South; the
mother knowing that her son will
soon be ordered to the bloody plains
of France, perhaps never 10 return,
locks up her house in Washington
and follows her darling boy to the
southern camp; there she has estab |
lished an abode so located that she |
can occasionally see her soldier son
when off duty.
The boy is sent to France, the |
mother returns to Washington, and
finds that the Senate of the United |
States has taken over her property, !
not for the government ia. occupy, |
but for bevy of blonde haired beau
ties who work in the Food or Fuel !
Administration, or perchance for |
some of the intellectual Bolsheviki |
who, under the direction of Mr.. Creel }
form public opinion in the censor de-
partment to occupy. She finds that |
The government has fixed and is col I
Letting a rent, thereby demonstrating |
the property is for the private use |
of the individual who pays the rent. |
Perhaps also she will find an individ |
ual like Fuel Administrator Weaver /
has taken possession of hers and of /
other peoples property - Weaver,
the gentleman who has left the city |
in the grip Of winters cold without |
any fuel, who issued an order then |
hied himself to Florida, there to bask !
in the golden sunshine and to enjoy |
the sweet breezes of that salubroius !
climate while Washington shivered
and prayed for a hot wave. A rent |
administrator!
Beware, my friends. You may
legislate yourselves out of your own
homes, those of you who nave been
foolish enough to buy property in |
Washington or have to rent it for
any length of time; for, behold the
day may come when Congress again
will recess for a longer period than
90 days. In that event wnen you re-
turn here, you may find that some
rent administrator has broken down
your doors and installed lot of
tenants of his own selection. They !
may have kicked holes in the plaster,
broken windows, and torn out the
plumbing but you cannot even get a
writ of eiectment against the rent
because he represents
the sovereign government of the.
United States. You cannot recover
damages. All you can do is to go to
the court mentioned in this bill and
ask TO have the rent raised.
The only time that legislation like
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