Bisbee daily review., 1918-06-18

lNH sand words of denunciatiOn of the President A'A of the United States, of Secretary Baker of Postmaster General Bureson, and of the Hearst news papers, He has caused this datbe to be printed in the Congressional Record and distributed broadcast among people at the very moment when the is reach ing its most arduous and 1lOst critical stage.
 very sincerely believe that Mr. Roosevelt is mak- ing a grave mistake in endeavoring to distract our leaders disturb the machinery of Government and of military operations and spread doubt and dis trust and dissenson among people at this serious time This is thc tim above all times for the sacrifice of our personal aspj|-ltions and antagonisms.
 It is the time for the exercise of our utmost com united action.
 It is not time for discussion and dissension and detraction.
 h1a,AH loyal Americans, individuals and institutions should join together regardless of personal political prejudices and work harmonously to help our Presi- dent and our people to win the war.
 4I This the Hearst publications have earnestly and consistently endeavored to do
 s. From the very first day of the war the Hearst newspapers have believed that victory would be by the united eff It and energy of all people, and not by the pickering and fautfnding of few of our people.
 papers said that the MANAGEMENT of the war should be confded to the Executive; that while dehberaOn and many counselors were good in peace undivided authority and responsibility necessary in q The day after declared the Hearst papers urged Fan army of million men, she largest increase that could possibly be made in the navy" and Sin numerabe aeroplanes and seaplanes-"
 t The leaders of boRI parties in Congress opposed universal service my form of selectve conscrip ton" But the Hearst papers circulated petitions from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and collected more than 100000 signatures asking Congress to pass the Seective Consumption Act.
 "Only by using the full strength of the nation, AND EVERY MANS STRENGTH WHERE IT IS MOST NEEDED, can the full power of the nation be erted the definite verbatim expression of this pe- ttion
 ~ I myself went personally to Washington to urge my former associates in Congress to vote or selectve conseripton, and on April 27 published four-coumn signed article in the Washington Post advocating it.
 After the fight for the selectlve draft won, the Hearst papers called for the conquest of the air. More than twenty editorials, of them full pages urged the appropriation of the $6400000 900 for planes and aviators, which finally secured.
 Another urgent need merchant ships. FOR TWO YEARS BEFORE THE WAR the Heart papers fought with vigor and persistency for Government built merchant marine. But the bill providing for it was killed by fbuster, in which Senators Penrose and Oliver, Elihu Root and Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts-aIl friends of Mr. Roosevelt's-joined
 But for this iibuSter we might have had at least
 year ago the ships required to defeat the submarine
 The seective draft, ships and aeroplanes having been provided, the Hearst newspapers next petitOned Congress flor temperance during the war;; to stop1the use of foodstufs for making whisky. This legislation was accomplished in sixty days but the Hearst papers had been making sustained fight against whisky for five years
 To aid the First Liberty Loan, 914 columns of news, editorials and cartoons published in the Hearst papers alone
 Many thousands of posters on the Liberty Loan drawn by Hearst cartooniss, posted in all the great cities of the country. One of them, published May "A, 1917, effective that R. w. WOolley, d rector of publicity of the Treasury Department Wash ngton, requested copies for every Federal Reserve Bank III the United States-7700 in number-and they were furnished free.
 Your work deserved unmeasured commendation" wrote the Govenmsnts Director of Publicity.
 To aid recruiting to the navy, the marines and the volunteer army, the Hearst newspapers created and nanned recruiting stations in the principal cities of the E21o1 .
 &isnents wsre made at New York American stations,