The Washington herald., 1918-10-23

| or the nations strongest hepuDllcans
have come to the cofors to fight the
Presidents third of the fourteen peace
bases with reference to the tearing
down Of all economic barriers
Here's what they say:
Colonel Roosevelt: THE President
should disabuse his mind OF all four
teen points and get new ones" (Evi-
! IDENTIFY T. r. means to hit hard TO
get at the one which he thinks means
free trade).
Lawrence Sherman. Senator from
| Illinois las a protectionist l cannot
/ subscribe to the points laid down py
the President as the basis for peace
negotiations"
Senator New of Indiana: Here is
something we should fight because
| we are Americans. The President
should not thrust upon this country
a free trade policy as condition OF
| a peace treaty"
Leslie NJ. Shaw, former Secretary
/ OF the Treasury: This is an attempt
to foist a free trade policy on Amer
lea. It means letting inferior Ger
man goods in to compete with ours.
| 1t means the killing of our lndus-
| tries that German Industries may I'VE
II means all people should go TO the
| polls on November 5 and vote TOT
! Republicans in order to keep the
President from mailing this unnt
| course upon our country. The Dig
| battle at the coming election Is CEN
! tered on this
And so on to various lengths.
| Evidently the Presidents words
have been met with fire on the part
of the Protectionists. They have
|
the old fundamental fight between
their party and the Democratic
party-the fight the two parties
have gotten away from in the last
two campaigns. In both of these
campaigns the issue was present
but not voting" for while some OF
the papers and politicians tried to
stress it they found little interest
among the people one way or the
other on it. Now their intention is
to make it the dominant issue of the
| campaign.
The President has not said yet
| just what ground he would meet
them on. But he will say one of
these days without question. He
will make it pretty clear just what
! he means and why he thinks the
course he has charted had better be
| the one for America to follow.
The lis insurance companies COM
prising the American Life Conven-
| tion certainly did themselves proud
on the liberty loan drive Just closed.
The story of how Assistant Sec
retary of the Treasury Tom Love
"0ommandeered" the officers OF the
convention when they came to this
city for other official work broke
out at the Capitol yesterday and
shows the characteristics of the big
| business men in the late drive.
There were DR.. E. G. Simmons Of
New Orleans, this years president:
| Harry Seay of Dallas, Tex, last
wears president. and Thomas Black
/ burn Of Omaha. Nebr.. the secretary
and counsel OF the convention. They
| had hardly put in an appearance
here when Tom Love asked them to
do things for the loan-greater
things even than they had already
done.
So lis telegrams went out-one to
each member company. And before
the last telegram went out the first
ones were replied to by the officers
! of the companies.
We're raising our ante aga
Bill Hohenzollern." was the bur1.u
or every blessed telegram that came
back.
Increases OF a few thousand dollars
TO million dollars were reported by
the companies-and Secretary Black
ourn proudly stalked into Secretary
Loves office showing total in
creased ante Of many million dollars
Subscriptions ranging from & TO -
per cent of the various companv's
assets were shown to have been in
vested in liberty bonds-a pretty good
showing. Secretary Love couldn't
help but commend the officers for
their activity and the young com
panies for their active response to
the request.
Germany's answcr-what is it.?
What does 1t mean? How do you take
il?
These are some Of the questions
hanging over from the publication Of
the text There are many opinions
and the one opinion which counts
that of the President-has not been
expressed. When it is we may know
that the country has spoken no mat
ter how many differing opinions have
been heard on the streets up to this
moment.
But no matter what the interpre-
tation OF the masses the truth is Ger
many is going down the slide. Her
man power is waning. her spirit is
tagging, and her power with her own
people is being dragged in the dust
Of shame and disgrace.
The highway to sin is laden with
bumps and burns and bruises, and
Germany is just beginning to pay the
penalty of the criminal nation. She
sowed the sin beginning in August.
1914, and she is now beginning to reap
the grain-a harvest she would flee
from If she could.
Mr.. Madden was a mad "ur" the
other day evidently If We read hfs
exact words in the Record. He
sought to put to flight those Demo
Gratis who have been insisting that
a population Of the President in
this years elections would mean
Joy in Berlin.
We have plenty of quotations on
this, however. to settle the case
against Mr.. Madden. In the cleo
tion of 1898 the Republicans put up
so many and such effective argu-
ments why the party Of that war
/ should be returned to Office that
the Democratic party needs now to
originate no new arguments what
ever to make its claim for control
of the Senate and House this year
Every argument made by the Re-
publicans then IL applicable this
year. Not a words change need be
made scarcely. Every line is true
now. if true then. The Republican