South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-10-30
q. O. p. PAST MASTERY IN
GARBLING AND HYPOCRI-
SY RUNS AMUCK.
BY JOHN HENRY ZUVER,
Editor The News-Timcs.

consistent partisan pOliucalism
IN the seven GREAT war
measures which the republicans
have champiOned I'm excess OF dem
ocrats-an save one anti-ad-
rninistration war measures, mind
you,-oonsider the Kahn amend
ment 70 the conscription law and
the Anthony amendment to the
army reorganization bill.
These are two OF the "seyen, -
and the other five are "pre-war," 50
far a. concerns the United States;
"super-war," 80 far as concerns our
beIIigerency.
But take the Kahn amendment
and the Anthony amendments and
compare them
The Anthony amendment wanted
10 enable T. Roosevelt, chronic re-
publican disturber Of everything
democratic. TO raise "a volunteer
FrRnce,-of course, at national ex-
pcnse.
Evidently I'm tho Kahn amend
ment, the republicans proposed that
no one should henceforth be per
mitted TO volunteer save I'm the
Roosevelt divisions. That seems the
way T. r. was going TO raise his
army.
Some system. The ObstructiOnists
would have taken the raising Of any
volunteer army out Of the hands OF
the war department., and turned
it over tO T. Roosevelt, and required
all save the Roosevelt forces to sub
NIT 10 conSCrfption.
The Kahn amendment 50 ANXIOUS
ly supported by the z. o. p. aimed
TO substitute cOnsCriptiOn for vol
untecring. exclusively. while the An
thony amendment was willing TO let
Roosevelt raise four volunteer divi-
sions, OH yes! Politics?
IT was on this Kahn amendment.
l which should never have gotten
into the conscription lavS-and which
the president and war adm'nistra-
ton ignored for over n year that
Speaker Champ Clark made his al
legged "COnscript and convict" speech
which Lodge, smOot. GnIett and
Fcss. try so hard 10 capitalize as
against the cOTlSfTlpt Dill
But as usual. a half-truth Is worse
than n whole lie. He never charged
as asserted, that;
There is precious little difference
between a cOnscript and convict"
What ne did say was;
"Due TO the bad odOr that still
hovers about the old draft system.
and the drafted men sent TO the
Civil var. out in Missouri there H.
precious little difference between
conscript and "A convict"
See how easy IL Is to tell great
big lie with a half truth-and the
speaker was not opposing conscrip-
ton into IL either. He was opposing
the Kahn amendment, calculated TO
abolish volunteering altogether, and
by 50 doing, hghting for the priv
ilege 10 yoluntccr-withOut having
TO do 20 under the political jack
snipc. Roosevelt.
WE LEAVE TT To YOU IF
WHAT CHAMP CLARK SAID OF
TIE SENTIMENT IN MISSOURI
WASN'T PRETTY NEAR THE
SENTIMENT IN INDIANA-and II
hundreds Of bOys and young men
i'm South Bend. Mishnwaka st. JO-
scph county, didn't rush to the re-
cruiting Office and enlist because
they didn't want 10 have the antici-
pated stigma Of having been drafted,
attached to them?
10 back over the files Of the
N South Bend Tribune, local re-
publican organ, July and August,
1917. when the Srd Indiana regi-
ment was modified At Leeper park.
Inspect the front page OF several
editions OF that paper about the
time Co. r. was trying 10 recruit
itself TO war strength, and Col.
F'rcyermuth's headquarters COM
pany. was ambitious for jts fun
quota
Day after day IL ran, something
like this. with variations, but always
the same IN substance. big type
editorialiIed. and boxed of as II
calculated TO knock your eve out:
Don't be q Shaker Volunteer
and choose your own place in the
army. To wait 10 be drafted isn't
patriottsnl- Wait Ter the draft and
you viii find yourself without
standing IN the army sneered at
and summed Volunteer Go.
ne~ds you. For our local company
TO leave south Bend without It's
full quota reflects on the town.
The drafted man f. little better than
deserter."
If the Tribune. republican organ,
now 80 anxious TO deridc Champ
Clark because there Il n campaign
on. darcs deny this, We dare her TO
print what she did say.
We remember it clearly. and 80
must You. for IL was we who drove
that stuff of that Tribune 'front.' page
into the gutter. and Co. + left South
Bend without its quOta,-yet our
contemporary was vOicing the senu-
u,e.nts Of n considerable citizenship;
sentiments Nascd upon the Civil war
draft stigma same as those quoted
by Speaker Clark from the people OF
Missouri
There isn't any Sense I'm people
kidding themselves. trying 20 make
white appear black. and black
white. Just because there Is a cam
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