The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1919-06-07
MOVING BACKWARD

Chairman Homer -. cummings VI Iile
Democrat national committee, in crit
zeal tone, describes the Republican party
as an organization which complains and
moves backward" The statement, no
doubt, is made as a reflection on the Re-
publican party, but coming as climax
to Democrat waste and extravaganza, to
say nothing of the abandonment Of con-
stitutional government, its words cannot
not fail to convey subtle compliment.
At this hour-when Democrat ideal
ism has failed Of practical accomplish
ment, when international relations are
conducted by men who have never given
any official oath to this government,
when patriotic endeavor is made politi-
cal capital, when war expenditures contin
ue as peace burden to taxpayes, when
efforts are made to cripple branches OF
our national government, when the guar
anteed liberties of the constitution are
set aside and when the executive-branch
of our government devotes itself to the
peoples of the world and permits our do
nestle policy to struggle for itself-at
this hour we want to move back where
we were before the war was made the
vehicle for the distortion of the aims and
purposes of our government.
On the eve Of the reconstruction the
Republican party can plead guilty to the
charge of Chairman Cummings with no
blush of shame, for in that direction, the
future security Of the United States and
her people. We want to move back to
that period of peace and prosperity which
this country enjoyed before the Democrat
party took the reins Of this government
by deception and em0tionalism. We want
to 20 back to the time when we enjoyed
the confidence Of all civilized nations, de-
scribed by Woodrow Wilson before we
got into the war in the following words:
We are at peace with the world.
This is the time above all others
when we should wish and resolve
to keep our strength by self pos
session, our influence by preserv-
ing our ancient principles Of ac-
ton. More than this carries with
it reversal Of the whole history
and character of our policy.
We want to go back to the period re-
Elected by President Wilson on February
L, 1915, when he said:
There are actually men in Amer
lea who are preaching war, who
are preaching the duty of the I'm
tied States to do what it never
would before, seek entanglements
in the controversies which have
arisen on the other side Of the wa
ter-abandon it's habitual and ira
ditional policy and deliberately en-
gage in the conflict which is now
engulfing the rest of the world
1t is the president who now wields a
club to force upon us perpetuation of
the entanglements he warned against. He
once truthfully remarked that America
held the confidence of every power en-
gagged in the conflict. BY his own diplo-
macy he has shattered this confidence.
We are mistrusted by Italy, Japan and
China. We are the minority in triple
alliance designed for the protection of
the European interests OF, France and
Great Britain. Of course we want to get
away from these dangerous alliances and
entanglements and the safest and quick
est way is to go back to an American
form of government.
We want to go back to constitutional
form of government where the executive
branch recognizes the existence Of the
legislative branch. We want to go back
to the close cooperation among the
branches of our government which as
sures government in the interest of the
American np0nla aS a whole We want IN