The Jasper weekly courier., 1918-07-05

not 0,UUU miles away. we say II Is
and if we can suppress pro-German
sympathizers and snipers at home,
with the help of God, we will keep it
5000 milessaway.
Wilson Greatest Power for Liberty.
Fortunately for this Nation-yes,
for humanity and civilization-we
have Woodrow Wilson for President.
In sweep of vision and constructive
craftsmanship, he is absolutely with
out a peer. 1t is not surprising that
the leading newspaper. e.ros5 the sea,
supporting the allied p wcrs, enthu-
siastically hail our President as the
greatest influence back Of the rove
ment for worldwide Ii erty. The
leading statesman, the great literary,
scientific and religious orgaai ation-
of England and Franc IL 1~5 he,
tate to endors the police -fvoca.eJ
by him, end to fc )v ware le leads.
This is the man, under whose lead
ership our country has made as great
preparation for war in three years as
Germany did in 40 years; under whose
leadership our country mace as great
preparation for war in three months
as England and France did in three
years.
The efficiency he displayed and had
displayed in marshalling our forces,
in feeding and clothing our boys, and
in mob; lizing the industries of the Ma
ton, surpasses anything of the kind
in the history of IL world.
In three months after the declara-
ton of war, an American army,
10000 strong, swept across the seas
and marched throu gh the streets of
Paris, under the folds of Old Glory,
shouting for their country and for
human liberty everywhere.
This is the man, leading his Nation
with wisdom and a fine spirituality,
against the Kaiser and his associates
in crime, who have broken the peace
of the world; who seek to crush out
free institutions with the heel of mill
tarism; who have torn the breasts
from the bodies of praying women
and girls, trampled them in the dust
and thrown them to the dogs, and who
nave outraged the virtues of woman
hood with d fendishness unknown to
he jungles.
These are some of the things our
President has done. But my friends,
YOU will read in vain the Republican
platform put forth in this hall few
ays ago; you will read in vain the
5000 worded speech of Governor
Goodrich; you will read in vain the
speech of Senator New smelling Of
birthstone, and you ~oad in vain the
speech of Senator va .Cn sufcharged
with the vitriel of partisanism--all
this you will 90 in vain In a search for
a single sentence, single phrase or
single word of approval Of single
act of our President in this war. And
lin these deliverances, you will find
more criticism of the President than
you will find of the Kaiser.
May my tongue cleave to- the roof
of my mouth and my right hand for
yet her cunning when | shall fail In
this trembling crisis to approve what
ever Governor Goodrich and his ad-
ninistratpn do toward helping to win
he war.
~ amends, this is no time to hunt
r excuses to criticise. Our country
in distress. Civilization is in the
s-lance. Humanity is bleeding at
very pore. Portions of the earth
ave been filled with hunger by
laiserism and Heaven itself appar-
.ntly, deafened by the groans and la
nentations of the innocent, crushed
" oppression. But i'm the midst of
his awful condition, Woodrow VII
ion, unswayed from his course by
Constructive Critics." is looked to as
the hope of the world and the move
ment now under way TO encompass
his rebuke at the polls, will in the end
Encompass the rebuke Of those back OF
liz. The people understand what is
lgoing on and no amount Of camou-
aage will mislead them.
After the War.
But it is urged the Republican party
must come back to power, SO the
country will have the benefit of its
skill in the reconstruction period fol-
lowing the war. Lay its achieve
ments of forty years side by side with
those of the present administration
and a comparison will put it in the
Iprimer class of craftsmanship.
After forty years of power that
party left TO its credit financial law,
that placed the country at the abso-
lutte mercy OF Wall Street. Under the
financial legislation of that party this
country could not have got started in
this war, unless it had submitted TO
being bled at every pore by the great
money powers. On this one question,
God should be thanked for Woodrow
Wilson.
After forty years of power, Repub-
Ilicans left as a legacy 10 the country
the railroads in dilapidated condi-
ltion and so full of water and graft
they could not meet the war demands
made upon them, and the government
had to take them over. The war can
not be fought without money and
railroads over here.
No party in the history OF our Ma
ton has triumphed over as many diff
cult conditions as our party has in the
last five years.
No party has done the one-hun-
dredth part as much as our party has
done in the last five years, toward de-
termining the destiny Of other Ma
tons
No party has done the one-thou-
sandth part as much as our party has
: done in the last five years In carry
ing the blessings Of our institutions,
! the inspiration of our civilization and
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