The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1919-09-02

crat raving and ranting about special
interests being identified with the
Republican party, am reminded
that at no periol in the history OF
the nation have said special interests
been coddled and bowed down to as
they have been during the past six
years of Democrat rule.
You declared yourselves, in 1911,
as Jack the giant killer" in regard
to trust busting. But in the per-
Torrance you have shrunk to a
hop o. my thumb"
The old high cost of living was al
80 to have its fangs removed. but
under six years OF your economic poll
Icy his sting is as virulent as ever.
Read your campaign literature on
this subject of 1911 and 1912, and
II you have not entirely lost your
sense OF humor you will laugh your
selves to death.
] desire at this time to refer TO
the aspersions cast upon this Repub
lican majority by the gentleman from
Arkansas (Mr. wingo) as to their
sole accomplishment having been the
appointment of several Smelling
committees" and growing at the
President. Well, on the Democratic
side of the House there is a long
record Of failure of accomplishment
that even the excuse of the war,
which you use continually to hide
behind, can not erase. You felt Sc
sure in the fact that criticism OF
your dilatory tactics might be turned
to your own benefit by charging with
everybody on this side Of
the House who dared to suggest that
the Democratic congress was not the
absolute savior Of the nation.
The Democratic party was return
ed to power on the plea that your
for President would keep
us out OF war. war into which we
were finally driven by vision OF
what might be the horrible fate of
our mothers and sisters. and daugh-
ters and wives, at the hands OF the
brutal Hun. The motive now ascribed
for our entry into the war Is one
highly altruistic, but ask how many
sons Of the United States had laid
down their lives without ever hay
ing heard OF, much less considered,
the IA points,
I have travelled on trains with re-
turning soldiers, I have visited at
the training camps, have fratern
lied with them at the hospitals, and
have found from their converse
ton that they had gone forward to
to the world that the
idea that had evidently seeped into
the minds of the European nations
that 1--WE We're too proud to fight"
was in their estimation a stain on
the valor and integrity of the people
OF the United States that these boys
desired to wipe out forever. And as
good is a characteristic of
young America they waded in and
cleaned up, l do not desire at this
time TO speak at length of our sol
diers' accomplishments; very many
wonderful speeches have been made
on the subject by members on both
sides OF the House but yield to no
one side in my admiration and appre-
citation of what they accomplished,
these magnificent soldiers sailors,
and marines, for the preservation of
liberty and the sanctity of the Amer
lean home.
Too many times on the Democratic
side OF the House have patriotic
speeches been made with an eye sin
gle TO covering up the failures as a
result of inefIiciency in the various
departments. Everything from tho
price OF cotton to the failure OF the
aeroplane production has had its
covered by Democratic or