Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1918-08-02
Advert sement.


lie finances. JudgI ng, by the pictures
and literature WHY ,h Ia being lavishly
distributed. and hf the apparent main
tenAnce In VAST ington. OF a special
newspaper correi ipondent in behalf Of
each OF them, they ara not troubled
with any lack sof funds. ably supple
menting the goYernment-paid expendi-
lures, OF which they are each bepe-
ficiaries. in print g, postage and clsr-
zeal work.
The bill to create a national arny,
by the draft system, was not favored
by the leading democrats OF the House.
not even by all of those on the Com
mittee Of Military Mffairs, to which II
was entrusted When it's fate was
uncertain, its leadership was assumed
by Republican froin California, born
in Germany and deeply imbued with
distrust and hatred for German despot-
ism. One OF my competitors. Mr.. Har-
rison, voted for the bill The other,
after bitterly attacking 1t. and de-
clartng that conscripts were held In
equal contempt with ,convicts. failed
to vote on dts passage. Neither of
them. so far as | have been able to
learn, did otherwise than cheertully
acquiesce In that fes{ture OF the bill
which exempted from draft. among
others, Senators and congressman, re-
gardless of what age limit has been
or may be fixed. To escape the con-
sequences of this self-Isrotection, some
thing more Is needed than the letter
OF one Of them to the president Ia
which circumstances placing him In
the fourth deferred class, are men
toned and of the offe Of the other,
to the Secretary of War, to raise q
regiment. Neither of these methods.
under laws of their own making. are
possible ways of getting into the army.
The ways that were and are possible,
they did not adopt beingRvolunteering
draft or officers training camps.
In a speech at Sardis,A Mississippi.
Mr.. Harrison said that The would with
draw from this race and enter the
army If Senator Vardanran would leave
the Senate BY electing me- instead
of either of them, the purpose pro-
posed by Mr.. Harrison, can bel accom-
plished, and the way tosenter the army
opened to them both; and the legal OK
emption of themselves be ended with
their official term, when the age limit
is raised, thus they may both be with
in the draft, and deprived Of their
fsIas,r., p nrorfo calf
When it was proposed to raise the
larger part of war expenses from the
rich, through income taxes, one of the
first measures along that line, gave a
large advantage, If not exemption, to
certain officials, including Senators
and Congressman, but popular indtG1
nation caused its reconsideration and
defeat. However, when the mother
and other relatives write to their sol
der boys, they pay IAN increase OF one
cent for each letter or postal. Con-
gressmen and Senators whoe have gov
ernment-paid clerks to mail literature
in their political interests, have their
franks, as OF old, without cost to them
selves. and without practical hmtta-
ton. Even the German princes we're
recently forced to give up their FREQ
mail privileges, privileges still exer-
cised in this respect, by our Congress
men.
So far as | have been able to see,
neither of my competitors has ever
furnished one statesmanship idea that
has ripened into law. They are fine
orators, delighting audiences and
themselves and taking up much time
in Congress that might be better util-
lied No time was lost in increasing
the pay of certain government Off
Gals, including thirty-three and one
third per cent increase to Congress
men, directly paid to themselves, for
clerical work, sometimes rendered by
their immediate families; but months
we're spent in making speeches, to be
distributed at government cost, for .
twenty per cent unopposed increase in
the low pay of rural route men. The
delay resulted in an opportunity for
speech making, used to catch votes
and support Of rural route men who
were thus delayed in getting their
hard earned increase of pay. Along
similar lines, Mr.. Harrison made a
speech in favor of giving preference
to civilian government positions, to-
soldiers and sailors who received hon
orable discharges for war time serv-
ice. privilege that had been fully
conferred and exercised for fifty-three
years before his bill was introduced.
II either had desired to help the SOL
diers, In a substantial way, they might
have introduced an amendment or
measure to give free mailing privi-