Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-03-30

could million overnight and them the trenches of
France They forgot the experience England they forgot
experience of France they forgot their neglect martial strength
they forgot everything but their personal advertisement their
political advancement.
Mythology tells that Minerva pang uarmed
Jupiter and despite the fact that age for NEUROLOGICAL
passed these acrimonious critics demanded that the United States white
aes out of the air and by sort of esdgtOal art transform
million civilians into fuaned soldiers between the sinking and the rising
the What these critics had failed do 16 years. they insisted
that Woodrow Wilson should do 16 days The wind seh the night
the dew falls the stars out the works her magic charm and
behold dawn grown mushroom whns the
only embryonic stalk mugged the This the kind of marvel
this the kind impossible lgedeman that Col Roosevelt his school
demand should be pudiated military world They demand that
nvncb army be created overnight out of wind and dew starlight and
moonhne But they fail provide Aaddins lamp
work the miracle they fail furnish the necromanc wherewh
ram into night the task of a decade.
And this miracle they demand the teeth the hary
truth that from the days Washington Franklin and Adams this
has not set its against miarc policy large Army potential
Military Establishment has been the ghost that given country
seeess nights for l40 Fictitious ghost perhaps but nevertheless
ghost hypnotic in its influence and And the Navy
ampeed hortghted sentiment great
the country whose congressional Representatives persnt
opposed large naval appropriations fear retrencmnt against
hometown projects of their native heats. For this ngraind
repugnace big army adequate Navy neither the Republicans
the Democrats today blame The fault
of the Nation since l77e
sown, shall we reap.
Winfield worlds greatest compressed
historic situation nutshell when he said Republics prepere
for war;"
The business republics peace the of autocracies war
Autocracy by grandfather Frederick
the Great said Frederick himself said and saith the
the Crown Prince
love and craving peace the very genesis a
public To this genesis republics from this genesis republics de-
only at the call of honor the command necessity
though may forget people remember that eight
months the United States leadership Woodrow Wilson
has done twice much and than England and France did
the corresponding period of time The accusations the eaggeraon the
abcans the distortions supeous envousnged
of the Wsonan policies msy osam covering
as expose this political plot in all its naked hdousness
We make claim that the administration has
cumumbers performed fea beyond the pale human possibility but
maintain that its efforts have amazing accomplishments beyond
compare in the history of modern warfare.
We have whipped the Kaiser yet will whip
critics do dampn the fires enthusiasm grease the
ride national haro of We have France today
Germany suspects waiting
for the ships.
We Army we'll
the months ending January 1913 averaged only per
death mind you less than the death like
peaceful avoons home Compare this with the death 204
thousand under the good old Republican rule of the the Spanish
American Compare these figures then applaud Roosevelt
charges, if you can
True have made mistakes magnitude
taking mistakes inevitable unavoidable balance though
the wonrous achievements these mistakes have been trivial and not
worthy the attention by trying
to magnify molehlls into maintains
And Furthermore unlike the Spanish War; which
Roosevelt a kng-pin
We have Army contract scandals
We have embalmed-beef horrors
We have fat old generals going carriages leading
battle charges from easy rocking chairs.
We have unpleasant gossip about the appointment political
generals and society admras.
We have roundobbn letters pesumptous
demoralizng discipline and exalng self.
In the face these facts the wild ranng of Roosevelt and his fellow
political conspators boomerang peenta revolving
the sensbes Others but harmful only the who ur them
On the estimation thoughtful people these critics make ndeb
They fe the the
stir not the depths public opinion And with Roosevelt Lodge
Wordsworth the chief this curtain camouage political
fire. fed by the tissues ambitious Misrepresentation famed by the
sinister winds of political oato there stalks forth from
skeleton Ayers mbalmed with its
looms the commander of the United States
ride horse going into battle carriage oopng portable
bathub while soldiers had medicine conquer Ills there
view this sesame commander of the United
Cuba fighting his battles from folds hammock
while Of