The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-11-02
OUR ALLIES WILL UNDERSTAND

ministration on every one of the eight principal war measures
adopted a 5 a test by the National Security League and the
presidents party in Nevada. Congressman Rogers, OF Massa-
chusetts, voted for every one of the eight and then lett WASH
inpton TO enter the trenches as a private soldier to help Will
Sol win the war" and make the world safe for democracy:
Last Friday the president, in an appeal to the country ASKING
for the election of democrats to congress asked for the re-
election of Heating and the defeat of Rogers, for fear our al
lies might not understand"
Congressman Gardner, also from Massachusetts,, voted for
seven of the eight measures, then enlisted to help Wilson
win the war" and the people of that district elected his sec
rotary. Mr.. Lufkin, to take up his work in Washington ana
"help Wilson win" his wal against Champ Clark, Claude
Kitchen. Dent, McLemOre and the 60 to 100 others of his party
in the house who were helping the kaiser to ravage the world.
Champ Clark, in opposing the draft bill, said that In ms state
"there is precious little difference between a conscript and a
convict" And he laid aside the speakers gavel and left his
exalted station as presiding officer and took the floor OF the
American house of representatives to say it.
Gardner gave up his life to "help Wilson win the war.
Lufkin voted for the remaining one of the eight measures and
all the administration wal measures that have followed. Last
Friday the president, in an appeal to the people, asked the de-
feat of Lufkin and the election of Champ Clark, for fear our
allies, who have seen this army, might not understand
Henry Ford, who made the original discovery that sol
diers were "lazy, crazy or out of a job who did not beiieve
in patriotism and thought the flag "a silly thing who spent
thousands for page advertisements in the magazines and big
dailies to oppose national preparedness while the world was
aflame with war, and to elect Wilson because she kept us out
of war;" who loaded a ship with pacifist freaks and sailed for
Europe to storm the war trenches with brainstorms of peace,
and was ordered by our allies to keep off their soil and out of
their sight; who was IN JOKE O1 n war U DUH lue y Tic
world-Henry Ford has many millions and a son, twenty
three, exempted.
Senator Weeks. of Massachusetts, believes in patriotism,
believes in the flag. believed in preparedness, believed in this
war before Wilson did and while Russia and her millions Of
troops were still in it and eager to fight. Senator Weeks has
a son, one son, and he is with our allies "over there" trying to
"help Wilson win the war; and make the world safe for
democracy" He wasn't ordered to keep off their soil or out
of their sight. But last Friday the president, in an appeal to
the people, asked that Mr.. Ford be elected to the United States
senate and this boys father defeated, for fear our allies
might not understand"
No, our allies would not misunderstood. They would know
that it was not anyone elected against the presidents wish
who said this after Belgium and northern France had been
ravaged and raped and they had been fighting more than four
months to make the world safe for democracy and for us:
more than this" preparedness for national defense)
proposed at this time. permit m e to say, would mean merely
that We had lost our selfpossesaon; that W e had been thrown
off u balance by A WAR WITH WHICH WE HAVE MOTH
ING TO DO, WHOSE CAUSES CANNOT TOUCH US, whose
vry existence gives us opportunities for friendship and dhin-
terested service which should make impossible to u any hos
tile preparation for trouble"
They would know that no one opposed to the government
said that, for the president said it in his message to congress
December 8, 1914.
They would know that no man elected to congress against
the presidents wish had said, three days after the sinking of
the Lusitania, and after they had been fighting ten months to
make the world safe for democracy and for us-"we are
too proud to fight" They know the president said that.
They would know that no man elected to congress against
the presidents wish had said, on May 81, 1916, after they
had been pouring out their blood and treasure for nearly two
years ito make the world safe for democracy and for us
with the causes and objects of the European war we are not
concerned" 1t was the president who said that.
And these are just a few of the many things that have
been said that every true American now wishes could be I'M
said or forgotten. But they were not said by any man likely
to be elected against the wishes of the president-Or the wish
es of our allies. Millions of Americans have been trying to
forget these things and have remained silent when they
could not forget, until the president from the countrys White
House and from a position of prestige conferred by the peo-
pie. uttered this partisan appeal.
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