The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1919-02-21
CONTINUED from pago oue.,

| them, however, as pointed OUT ID,
Secretary of the Interior Lane, arr
unable to read or write,- and are Va
familiar with the English language
The great majority of soldiers WHIT
went for months without pay and suf
fered other forms of neglect will VA
derstand that the evils were due tt
incompetency resulting from partisan
and inefficient management of the war
Their resentment will be properly d.
rected. But there are also many who
cannot understand and who will fee
that i'll treatment has been due to
lack of appreciation, lack of gratitude
lack of sense of justice, on the part
of the government-the United States.
It will be a marvel if the loyalty and
patriotism of such men be not i'm
paired.
"There are other classes of people
who have suffered injustice at the
hands of the administration who will
fully understand where the blame
should be placed. There are the coast
wise steamship companies whose boat
lines were seized, wages and costs of
operation increased, and then the
boats turned back to the owners with
out an increase in rates corresponding
with the increased cost of operation.
With organizations partly destroyed,
and regular lines of business broken,
they are facing heavy losses without
remedy. Then, too, there are short
line railroads that experienced m
creases in wages without correspond
ing increases in rates, with the result
that they face bankruptcy because the
Railroad Administration did not take
them over at all or turned them back
after increasing their costs of opera
ton. The chief owners of these know
that it was the administration and not
the government that wronged them.
Minor stock 1olle-s, however, who i's'e
out small savings in the stocks may
not understand, and may harbor the
feeling that the government has been
party to the wrong.
"In all such instances, Americaniza-
ton societies should endeavor to pre-
vent misconception regarding response
bility for the evils. If anti-govern-
ment sentiment should develop among
soldiers, the responsibility should be
borne by those who occasioned the i'll
treatment. If dissatisfaction should
cause some to drift toward socialism,
it should be pointed out that the admin
istration which mistreated them was
iself socialtistic in its inclinations ana
that the same impractical ideas which
make them socialistic also make
them inefficient as managers of i'm
portant business. The record of this
administration should tend to drive
men away from Socialism, but since
dissatisfaction with the management
of government usually tends to drive
unthinking people toward Socialism,
the result may be the opposite of what
should be expected. Against this we
must carefully guard"
Washington, Feb. 1.-THE Repub-
lican Publicity Association, through it's
President, Hon. Jonathan Bourne, Jr.,
today gave out the following state
ment from it's Washington Headquar-
tiers:
"Mr. Pinchot's public demand that
Senator Penrose decline the chairman
ship of the Committee on Finance
when the Republicans resume control
of the Senate after the 4th of March,
theoretically comedies that under all
Senate precedents Mr.. Penrose is en-
titled to the position, and, unwittingly,
it is reflection not so much on MI.
Penrose as upon the integrity and
ability Of the Senate itself, particu-
larly the Republican Senators, and 4.
still greater reflection upon the patri-
says that she signed the agreement
otism and intelligence of the elector-
ate Of the great state of Pennsylvania
the second state in the Union in
population and wealth.
"There is no question as to Sena-
tor Penrose's ability. In 1881 he
graduated from Harvard near the
head of his class. He studied law
with Wayne MacVeagh and after ad-
mission to the bar practiced in his
home city. His neighbors elected him
to the Pennsylvania House of Repre-
sentatives and to the State Senate fol
period Of thirteen years, after which
the legislature elected him to the
United States Senate for three terms
of six years each and every time he
was the choice Of majority of til.
legislature before any party caucus
was held. In 1914 he was reelected
by the people by vote of 519,8O1 as
against 269,265 for Mr.. Pinchot ana
266,415 for Mr. Palmer. Mr.. Penrose
defeated each of his opponents by a |
vote of practically two to one.
I'm view of that record, to assume |
that Mr.. Penrose is lacking in ability
is reflection upon Harvard College,
upon the Supreme Court of Pennsyl-
vania, upon his neighbors who elect
ed him to the state legislature, upv..
the state legislatures that alactod