Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1918-10-30

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Star, July "a, 1918. Reprinted by
permission of indianapolis STAR
The Democrats are trying hard
to create the impression that the
war is the issue in the approaching
elections and that in some uneX-
planned way it would be an act of
disloyalty to vote against the
Presidents party candidates. The
war is not in any sense an issue,
and never has been from the NOM
ent the United States entered the
conflict. The President, to be sure,
went back into power on a he
kept-us-out-o of war argument, but
even that has been forgotten since
we became a belligerent.
No self-respecting Democrat
would undertake to tell an audi
ence of intelligent voters that the
winning of the war is in any wise
involved in the result of the No
vember contests. He and they
know that Democrats and Republl-
cans are united in the effort at
bringing early and complete sue
cess to the allied cause. The Re
publicans in Congress and out have
worked Loyalty to support the adj
ministration in its war program.
The war will be won regardless OF
which party is in control.
The issue in the campaign is not
the winning of the war-that is a
point on which there is no differ
ence of opinion-but the rehabifi-
tation of the United States is in
volved in the greatest money
spending orgy in the history of the
world. The situation is accepted
as inevitable, under existing con-
ditions, but it cannot continue in
definitely. There must be an end to
borrowing and the spreading OF
treasure broadcast. The nation
must get back to normal, and that
return era will be one of the most
trying in the history of the coun-
try.
The present protest is that, even
with a nearby termination OF the
war, we shall come out of the
struggle with a public debt in ex-
cess of S2O,0OO,O0O,000. That will
mean an annual interest charge OF
100000, or more, besides
money that must be provided fol-
the amortization of the debt. The
total of congressional appropria,
lions for 1916, the year before the
war, was only S678,677,S5S.7O, anc
that was higher than the average
in the ten years previous. The nor
NAL after-war appropriations, eX
elusive of interest and debt items
will be, of necessity, much higher
than in other years to take care Of
developments resulting from thu
war.
The people of the country mus
expect, under most favorable con
ditions, to pay to the support o.
the Government after the war a
least LnF6e anu lllOIC IIhcls loai VI
five times as much as they former
ly were assessed. That money mus
be raised, not for war emergency
and by selling bonds, but as a reg
ular thing and as business~propo
sition. The nation has to get bacl
from spending to an earning ant
saving basis. And all that will in
volve far-reaching economic re
organization and readjustment.
The Democratic party. is motor
iously a money waster, whether il
control of national, state or mum
cipal affairs. 1t has been lament
ably weak on constructive bushes
policy. The people know that. The,
have watched Democracy perform
in New York City, in Washington
and in scores of other places onl
to be ousted because of it's own ex
cesses and incompetence.
Even in the excitement of wa
the public has not forgotten tina
four years ago there was wide
spread unemployment in the Unit
ed States; that industry was slow