Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1919-04-18
ARE YOU GLAD?


FRIDAY, APRIL IS, 1919
ARE YOU GLAD?
(By Harvey S. Williams.)
Are you glad that we won the wal,
and that the war is overs Are you glad
that our sacrifice of the best Of Ameri-
ca young manhood is over, and that
now instead Of facing death at the
hands Of the German armies, they are
facing the prospect of returning to
their homes and your hearts? be-
lieve every individual in this district
is glad of all these things, and if you
are in that frame Of mind, you will be
ready to think, talk, and act about the
forthcoming Government loan, which
bears the glorious name of Victory
Loan. VICTORY, with all that the
word implies! All for which we
fought, suffered, and sacrificed during
the years 1917 and 1918! All the
ideals which turned the most peace
loving nation in the world into the
most powerful war machine the world
had ever seen. Yes, thank God, it is
victory and peace which we are now
asked to finance, instead of war. You
may ask why, with the victory won, an
additional loan is necessary, but if you
will stop to think for one minute, you
must realize that it was won, not by
the armies, ships, guns, munitions, and
aeroplanes which we had in France, but
by those which we had in preparation
and ready for embarkation, in con-
stantly increasing stream, until our
ends should have been accomplished.
It was the certain knowledge that the
vast resources of this country, to our
last dollar, and to our last drop Of
blood, had been pledged to victory,
which made the Hun first bluff, then
fear, and finally, crumble into absolute
collapse. It is this pledge so willingly
given, that the people Of this country
are now asked to carry out by sub.
scribing to the Victory Loan. Every
American can and must do something,
no matter how hard the previoA' burd-
en- has been.
Every man in the American Expedi-
tionary Force today wants to- come
home, but not one wanted to come until
the Hun had been completely whipped,
no matter what hardships they had to
endure, and we who stayed home can
not quit until the bills have been paid,
the contracts entered into by our Gov
eminent redeemed, and until we. can
honestly and truthfully say before
God and man, "we have done our
best.'' ~ --.,.~-
A government bond bearing AZ per
cent, with the war over, should be more
attractive to many from an investment
basis than previous bonds offered-and
this coupled with our patriotic duty to
pay off the costs Of the war, should put
the loan over nicely: ,>..... =.
That reactionary republicans will be
in the saddle in the new congress has
been quite apparent, but further evil
dence is furnished by Representative
Longworth, son-in-law Of the late Pres
ident Roosevelt, who says Of the steer
ing committee dominated by Repres-
entative Mann: cit will have all the
powers formerly possessed by Speaker
Cannon and his predecessors Of advanc-
ing or retarding legislation
Opponents Of the present primary
system, who put through the Warner
Hompe measure through the house, but
which measure rested in the senate as
not satisfa ctory,. it bringing forth an!
pumped little more life into the mat
ter, by a meeting of number Of re-
publican editors in conjunction with
some Of the legislators. Although the
matter is soon to come up in the senate
the election committee has not as yet
reached decision on amendments to
be offered to the bills proposed, which
in great measure bring back the old
convention system. It is just possible
that a good many Of the legislators
have found that any radical changes in
the present system, is not desired by
their constituents.
A. Mitchell Pa liner, United States at
torney general, in an address before
the National Democratic club of New
York in celebration of the birth of
Thomas Jefferson, said that the success
of America in the war was due in
large part to the achievements of the
Democratic party in the four years pre-
ceding the entry Of this country in the
struggle. He said in part: D.,
awe heard much in the days Just
preceding our entry into the war, of our
unpreparedness, deny it. In a mill
tary sense, we were not ready. But
the war was not fought by armies, but
by nations. When the time came fol
the nation to arm, the young men went
to camps across the sea, while behind
them on every side there were modified
the great supporting forces from cap
ital, from labor, from the soil. These
forces were ready for mobilization
'1oo,0oo,o00 strong because of Demo
cratic legislation, including the income
tax law, nonpartisan tariff commission
act, child labor law, federal workmen Z
compensation law, federal farm loa1
system, and federal reserve system
And enactment, of these laws, he assert
ed, constituted a crushing Indictment
Of the Republican party, whose lonl
lease of power brought on answer tt
the cries Of the people for relief &
Mr.. Palmer warned his colleague:
that the Democratic party could no
base it's 1920 campaign on t|past poll
tical achievements. Ia
"Any political party, he asserted
(Which 'haggles 'over the details Of tn
league Of nations covenant strikes .
blow at the very liberty for which Am