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Nar-He Reveals to Senate What
He Learned in The Fighting Zone
Praise For Daniels and Pershine
: Washington, d. c., Feb. 25-Sen-
ator William S. Kenyon, of Iowa one
of the forcaful Republican members
of the upper branch of Congress has
the lawyers penchant for finding out
for himself the truth of things and,
with this idea in view, recently visit
/ ed the European war fronts to as
certain the exact state of conditions
{ there.
| The Iowa Senator cannot be charg-
ed with being a partisan of the ruling
party in the nation, and, therefore,
his recital of what he found and his
commendation of the American for
ces both on land and sea in the war
| area may be accepted as the honest
judgment of a statesman who puts
patriotism above politics.
Reviewing his experience abroad
and the results of his observation in
a recent speech to his colleagues of
the Senate, Senator Kenyon said:
In this era of criticism | pause
here to remark that no criticism has
been made Of our navy. Lloyd
George few days ago congratulated
our nation on the splendid work of
our navy. Let no one say we have
done nothing in this war. We help
ed to destroy the submarine. Our
navy is doing some of the most es-
sential work OF the war. All honor
to the boys OF the American Navy,
to the work Of Admiral Sims, and to
the splendidly efficient Secretary of
the Navy, Josephus Daniels.
When you travel the ocean now
.2days you realize that tremendous
problem regarding ships. That in
G ludes destroyers, and | pause to say
that we have done marvellous work
with our destroyers. The captain of
one of the great ocean liners told me
that within three days after the
American deStrOyers arrived it was
noticeable in the submarine cam
paign.
Nobody can say we have not done
anything in this war, because the
record of our destroyers is Il proud
record. They are beautiful little in
strumentS of the sea. They especial
" appear beautiful when you have
been five or six days wondering what
the submarine zone is going to look
like, and you find them aside your
boat some morning four or five hun
dred miles ont from the Irish coast.
They bob up and down, with the
waves going over them. Those boys
never sit down. At a meal they eat
out of their hands. They are some
of the unnamed and unknown heroes
IF this war, and they seem to have a
rev way of doing this Instead OF.
o:rcling around as the British de-
stroyers and the French destroyers,
when they see d submarine they go:
right straight for il There are
chances in that; oh, yes; but TN
ST = 5=sSict ;s -sesa 4eussh and slzillful enoL
almost TO dodge the submarine, aIlH
the submarine has learned it.
THE American boys on these de-
stroyers have put the fear of God in
to the commanders of the SNbma-
rines. Let us increase the destreyers
until wherever there is a submarine
the destroyers viii be after them and
the sea will be rid of the most he'll,
lish of satanic devices pressed to.
by the devils chief OF
staff, commonly kn own as the Kai-
SER
Senator Kenyon, although a Life
long advocate of temperance, in this
same speech took sharp issue with
those who have spread the false re-
port that the men of General Perish
ing's command were drum kards and
lacking in morals.
Now, / want to say something
about this he said; lit will not suit
some of my friends l have ,observ-
ed in the papers criticism OF the
of the American soldi-
ars and comment as to certain Gis-
eases. AS to those diseases, l want
TO say that they are less than a Grac,
ion of one per cent-leSS than the
statistics would show of any large
,ity in this country. AS to the drum
lenness, am as good prohibit1on4
st, l claim, as anybody in this coun
ry. | am commonly and usually dell
,ounced as a crank on that subject |
hate the liquor business. l will MT |!
t every time | get a chance. But i |
Tant to say to my prohlbltlonlSt |
riends, don't father the stories OF |
among our boys across
he sea- | have seen church publ1-
,ations for which l have great rel
pect setting this matter forth. 1t is
lot so. You may find here and there
drunken man in the army, just as
-ou might a number of years ago in
he Senate. That does not condemn
he whole institution
Let us not make it harder for
he men in command over there by
ccusing our American boys of drum
-enness. There is a man over there
t the head of affairs who is a tenn
'erate man, a God-fearing, a clean
nan, a fighter from the word 60 no
lower, no grandstander, just an or
mary, thrifty tighter-General Per-
hing. He can look after that ques-
ion better than you and l can here
n comfortable chairs. General Per-
hing does not want a diseased army.
ieneral Pershing does not want a
runken army. General Pershing is
ust as much Interested in the cause
f our army and in the great fight we
re in as you and l. Now, let us quit
his and leave the matter to PERISH
ng | hope that this is not treason 1
o the prohibition cause, but if it is.
Z l.