The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-09-23
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WILSON'S WAR IN RUSSIA

Washington, September 18.-(Spe-
cial correspondence -Arrainging the
President for usurpation of power in
sending troops to Russia and keep
ing them there, Representative Will
liam e. Mason, of Illinois, in a speech
in the House, recently, said in part:
WAR is not yet over in Russia.
Whose war Is It? Who declared war
in Russia? Was not Russia our ally?
Is she not our friend? The President
of the United States declares war. He
takes the boys from my district, with
uot any right, without any let or
hindrance, without any authority from
Congress. BY the newspaper I read
% were killed last week In Siberia.
Four hundred and eighty were killed
in the aArchangel sector. War in ST.
IBERIA. Whose war is It? Have you
voted for a declaration Of war? Do
you believe under the Constitution of
the United States that the President
has the power to take the boys Of this
country and send them into a peace
full nation to take part In civil war
there in progress? l am not for the
Bolsheviki, and I am not for the spawn
Of the Gear under Kolchak. Neither
one of them is under my flag. Neither
of them wears the uniform Of my
country. But 1000 boys from my dis
trict are there, not the sons of rich
men. l want to say If the President
had boy there, even If the son-in-law
Of the President were among them
in the Y. M. c. A. business-it would
not take him long to take them out Of
Siberia and start them home.( Ap.
plause)
That Is the truth about 1t. They are
my constituents. Their petitions come
in, hour by hour, and this morning
comes dispatch saying that % Of thu
Yankees were killed. Killed by who's,
order? That of the President of tn,
United States, who, believing that h,
was right when he was a professor
and wrote that the President had tn,
right Of initiative and the right to con
troll the power of all initiative hav,
quoted his words that the Presiden
Of the United States has virtually tn,
! power to control absolutely the for
eign affairs of the United States.
what military asininity is it t,
send $4,000 American boys there il
an attempt to control the affairs wher
IL any one Of these dirty faction
, agrees with the other. If the Bolshevik
should meet tomorrow the Kolchak
and, after they had got all the none
they can get out o fthe United State!
should come to an agreement, the
would turn and murder your boys an
mine as quick as they would kill ca
= or a dog. And you know 1t, and
want them to come out of there, an
they have got to come out of Their
(Applause.)
1.-THE resolution which / have o.
p fered cities the fact that the Congress
of the United States has power
J. make rules and regulations governin
, the armed and naval forces of I'll
II United States. You have the power
g bring them out. I ask you by tn
n resolution to order them out. Do n,
q be afraid, in the name of God, to e;
J. ercise the power of the legislator whe
IS the Executive usurps your power.
n 81 do not care for the money tn
O has been stolen. do not care for Il
$150,000 which the President hand,
to Barney Baruch over there in Il
e peace conference. 1t is dirt. But Il
n blood Of the boys of the United Stat
,r cries to you. They are blood of o,
IF blood and bone Of our bone. They a
rs American boys. They are poor boy
ST They are the sons of poor parents. W
e. have no right to keep them there al
is stave them and kill them to crafty b
n whims of the President of the Unit,
r States, who seeks to make himse
g. king of the United States, and n
President (Annlause