Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-04-07
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Asia.
Incidentally the senator commented
bitterly upon the, continued sacrifice
of American, lives In northern Russia.
despite the presidents announcement
therefrom az soon as the ice goes out.
:, ON behalf of the kin of the soldiers
involved let me express our gratitude
to the British for acauainting US with
the extreme peril OF our. troops in
northern Russia" he said In reference
to the dispatch from London report
Ing the need Of immediate reinforce
ments. Our own government appar-
emily In ignorant Of the situation or Is
suppressing the facts. 10 which the
parents OF the Michigan, Wisconsin
and Illinois boys on the Archangel
front are entitled"
Secretary of War Baker said he
had heard nothing Of the perilous sit
uation of the allied troops.
1t is time for Americans to awak-
en- said Senator. johnson. Five
months have passed since the armis-
tlce-since we did the, job fer which
America entered the war. During all
this time we've been afflicted with a
mental farsiShtedncss which enabled
us to see the Ills and the possibilities
OF Finland ana Poland of Courland
and Livonia, of Esthonia and Lithu-
ania. of Czecho- Slovakia, and Jugo-
Slavia, Of Armenia and Syria, and
even of the Hedjaz of Arabia, but
which has prevented us from seeing
or caring for the ills and the problems
Of our own.
rive months now after the end OF
the war We have "a million and halt
or men In France and Germany; Am
erican boys IN Siberia Under Japanese
command; American boys in northern
Russia under English command, and
what this means can be told by the
fathers and mothers OF Detroit from
the letters of their sons.
Five months after we've made the
good fight anG won England is ac-
qutrinS world monopoly on oil, and
has the cable and radio monopoly, ana
Is reaching for the worlds commerce I;
Japan is in some undisclosed manner
endeavoring 20 establish a foothold
upon our border; Corel is in revolt,
only held in subsection by ruthless
cruelty; China Is seething and is pub
licly notified ~ Japan that if she pub
lisheS her secret treaties which place
her in subsection Japan Will punish
her
Our demobilized soldiers ask only
justice and work and get neither; our
ordinary business lags and because OF
governments inactivity or indifference
cannot resume it's normal condition.
unemployment increases daily and for
eign agitators play upon distress and
discomfort.
Our committing government hovers
around European capitals, basking In
the sunlight Of foreign adulation. The
president is in Faris, the secretary of
state there, 200: the secretary of the
navy in Italy, the secretary of war on
his way to Europe. The heads of vari-
GUS administrative departments are
scattered east and west and north and
south in Europe-theres nobody home
in America.
..WKilaAour1 fyturs fate is, being Sec
rstly debated sand secretly decided In
Paris, and while we are. denied the
slightest knowledge Of decisions which
may alter the destiny of the republic,
loyal Americans here may well think
Of their own.
"The war has shown US our grave
problems Americanization, unem-
ployment, normal business conditions,
intelligently grapled with and throt-
tling discomfort and resentment which
may turn ito worse, destruction of any
noxious foreign growth which threat
ems our institutions-all these insistent-
ly cry for attention and solution, but
are put by for world dreams.
Let's care for, guard, and protect
our own. Bring American boys home,
and let's be Americans again."