The Parker post., 1918-06-22

Y Il R, ROOSEVELT has sent to the Senate ten thou
|V5 sand words of denuncation of the President
$3.50 of the United States, of Secretary Baker, of
Postmaster General Burleson and of the Hearst
He has caused this diaribe to be printed in the
Congressional Record and distributed broadcast among
our people at the very moment when the is reach
ing it's most arduous and most critical stage.
very sincerely believe that Mr.. Roosevelt is max
ing grave mistake IN endeayorlng to distract our
leaders, disturb the machinery of Government and
of military operations, and spread doubt and dis
trust and dssenson among people at this serious
time This is the time above all times for the sacrifice
OF our personal aspirations and antagonsms.
1t is the time for the exercise of our utmost COM
bned endeavor for the exerton of most vigorous,
united action.
It is not time for discussion and dssension and
detraction.
All loyal Americans individuals and institutions
should join together regardless of personal political
prejudces and work harmoniousy to help our Presi-
dent and our people to win the war.
This the Hearst publications have earnestly and
consistently endeavored to do.
From the very first day of the the Hearst
newspapers have believed that victory would be
by the united effort and energy of all people, and
not by the pickering and fautfndng of few of our
people
The 5 day } before for dSGaref % the Hsars
be confded to the Executive; that while deliberation
and many counsellors good in peace, undivided
authority and responsibility were necessary in war
The day after declared the Hearst papers
urged can army Of million men, the largest increase
that could possibly be made in the navy" and Gin
Vulnerable aeroplanes and seapanes"
The leaders of both parties in Congress opposed
universal service form of selective conscrip
ton But the Hearst papers circulated petitions from
the Atlantic to the Pacific and collected than
100000 signatures asking Congress to pass the
Seectve Conscripton Act
"Ony by using the full strength of the nation,
AND EVERY MANS STRENGTH WHERE IT is
MOST NEEDED, the full power of the nation be
erted" the definite verbatim expression of this Pc
titon.
l myself went personally to Washington to urge
former associates in Congress to vote Or selectve
conscripton and April 27 published four-column
signed article in the Washington Post advocating it
After the fight for the seectve draft won,
the Hearst called for the conquest Of the air
urged the appropriation Of the $64O 600 for
planes and avators, which finally secu1 ID.
An4ther not @ urgent need 1 Was w merchant ships FOR
fought with vigor and persstency for Government
built merchant marine. But the bill providing for it
killed by fbuster in which Senators Penrose
and Oliver Elhu Root and Henry Cabot Lodge of
Massachusetts, friends of Mr.. Roosevelt's- joined.
But for this flibuster, we might have had at least
year the ships required to defeat the submarine
The seectve draft, ships and aeroplanes having
been provided, the Hearst newspapers next pettoned
Congress for temperance during the war; to stop.the
of foodstufs for making whisky This legislation
accomplished in sixty days, but the Hearst papers
had been making sustained fight against whisky for
five years
To aid the First Liberty Loan GA columns of
news, editorials and cartoons published in the
Hearst papers alone.
drawn by Hearst cartoonists posted in all the
great cities of the country One of them, published
rector of publicity of the Treasury Department. Wash
ngton, requested copies for every Federal Reserve
Bank in the United States-770O in number-and they
furnished free.
your work deserved unmeasured commentator,
wrote the Governments Director of Publicity
TO aid recruiting to the navy, the marines and the
volunteer army, the Hearst newspapers created and
manned recruiting stations in the principal cities Of the
Union,
listments were made at New York American stations